CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL

CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of reasonably sized scale in CHEEKTOWAGA, New York, run under CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 682 students in grades 9 through 12.

CHEEKTOWAGA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 2,322 students; CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black at 35%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 32% White, 17% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Erie County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.7%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of +2.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Erie County put median household income runs about $72,839, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

The closest other public school is CHEEKTOWAGA MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. CHEEKTOWAGA HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 4% since 2018, when it stood at 656 (now 682). The White share of enrollment decreased from 46% to 32% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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