BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the close-knit secondary schools in BERNE, New York, overseen by BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 311 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 53% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Across the 2 schools in BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (676 students total), BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Albany County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Albany County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Albany County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,333 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 75 public schools in Albany County (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students).

BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. BERNE-KNOX-WESTERLO JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 361 (now 311). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 today.

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