BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL

BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL operates as a sprawling high school in BREWSTER, New York, run under BREWSTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 1,076 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 61% bigger than the state mean of about 668.

Within BREWSTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 2,988 students, BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 41% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Putnam County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 60.2%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Putnam County indicate median household income runs about $126,257, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Putnam County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,955 students), BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. BREWSTER HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 1,079 (now 1,076). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 29% to 52%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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