DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL

DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL operates as a cozy 9-12 campus in DELHI, New York, run under DELAWARE ACADEMY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT DELHI. Current enrollment sits at 399 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

Within DELAWARE ACADEMY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT DELHI, which oversees 2 schools and 724 students, DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (93%) are White; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Delaware County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Delaware County (around 47%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of +2.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Delaware County indicate median household income runs about $63,337, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Delaware County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,307 students), of which DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one.

DELAWARE ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.8%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. DELAWARE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 406 (now 399). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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