BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a tight-knit senior high in BOLIVAR, New York, part of BOLIVAR-RICHBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 336 students, covering grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 50% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

Across the 3 schools in BOLIVAR-RICHBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (651 students total), BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). The remainder breaks down as 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.7%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Allegany County indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,869 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Allegany County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,589 students), of which BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

BOLIVAR-RICHBURG PRE-K PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BOLIVAR-RICHBURG JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 15%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 336 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 in 2025.

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