IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack secondary school in ELMA, New York, operated by IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 628 students in grades 9 through 12.

IROQUOIS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,073 students; IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.6:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Erie County's rate of about 51%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.3%, the actual is 73.5%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: IROQUOIS MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IROQUOIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 64.0%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 737 students in 2018 compared to 628 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.