KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the well-populated 9-12 campuss in BUFFALO, New York, overseen by KENMORE-TONAWANDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 1,235 students on its rolls from grades 8 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 85% above that benchmark.

KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 10 schools operated by KENMORE-TONAWANDA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 6,302 students overall.

On the student-mix side, KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs 119 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.1%, the actual is 59.2%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Erie County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

Nearest neighbor: KENMORE JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 14%: 1,437 students in 2018 compared to 1,235 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 78% to 65% over that span.

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