BEACON HIGH SCHOOL

BEACON HIGH SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized secondary school in BEACON, New York, overseen by BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 831 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 24% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

BEACON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,580 students; BEACON HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BEACON HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 16% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BEACON HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 64.8%, a residual of +6.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dutchess County) logs that median household earnings sit near $99,478, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. BEACON HIGH SCHOOL is one of 76 public schools in Dutchess County (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students).

ROMBOUT MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BEACON HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. BEACON HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 891 (now 831). The Black share of enrollment declined from 21% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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