CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 9625 MAIN ST, in CLARENCE, New York, CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a sizable high school that enrolls 1,256 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by CLARENCE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 88% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within CLARENCE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 4,081 students, CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CLARENCE 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 68.1%; CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL posts 93.0%, +24.9 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Erie County put the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

LEDGEVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 73.2%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 1,454 students in 2018 compared to 1,256 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 92% to 86%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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