KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL

KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL operates as a sprawling 9-12 campus in KINGSTON, New York, operated by KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 1,749 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 162% above the state mean of about 668.

KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL is one of 10 schools operated by KINGSTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 5,877 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL shows that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 31% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Ulster County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL logs 147 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.3%, the actual is 57.3%, a residual of -1.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ulster County) records that median household earnings sit near $86,271, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Ulster County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.4%.

KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 8%: 1,903 students in 2018 compared to 1,749 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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