GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL

GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL operates as a roomy 9-12 campus in GUILDERLAND CENTER, New York, run under GUILDERLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 1,476 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL sits 121% bigger than that benchmark.

Within GUILDERLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 4,822 students, GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest reads as 16% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 134 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 28% of students at GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Albany County's rate of about 45%.

After controlling for student poverty, GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.6%, the actual is 76.2%, a residual of +11.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Albany County indicate the typical household earns roughly $85,333 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Albany County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students), GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LYNNWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 2.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 71.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,566 (now 1,476). The White share of enrollment declined from 77% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

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