DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier high school in DUNKIRK, New York, operated by DUNKIRK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 882 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.

Within DUNKIRK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 1,900 students, DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 34% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Chautauqua County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Chautauqua County reports that median household earnings sit near $58,351, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Chautauqua County (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students).

Nearest neighbor: DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.0%.

DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 50%: 588 students in 2018 compared to 882 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 50% to 58% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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