BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of sizable scale in DELMAR, New York, overseen by BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 1,322 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 98% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 4,077 students, BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 8% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 17% of students at BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Albany County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 68.8%; BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL posts 89.3%, +20.5 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Albany County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,333 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 75 public schools in Albany County (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students).

Nearest neighbor: EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 66.0%.

BETHLEHEM CENTRAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 18%: 1,604 students in 2018 compared to 1,322 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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