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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
670
High
DISTRICT 523 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361644001452
LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL
550 MARTIN RD, LACKAWANNA, NY 14218 · (716) 821-5610 · Erie County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL670 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 35% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
515 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 167 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 158 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 153 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 178 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 14 | 2% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
65.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
34.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 46.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL
LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (48.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL this school | 670 | 76.9% | 48.5% |
| COHOES HIGH SCHOOL COHOES | 607 | 68.5% | 48.3% |
| LANSINGBURGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TROY | 625 | 69.8% | 60.5% |
| GLOVERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL GLOVERSVILLE | 669 | 71.6% | 42.5% |
| PLATTSBURGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PLATTSBURGH | 566 | 72.1% | 77.0% |
| JOHNSON CITY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL JOHNSON CITY | 705 | 68.2% | 59.5% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Erie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #763 of 1,135 | #35 of 51 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #828 of 1,109 ▼ 134 | #37 of 51 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #690 of 1,135 ▼ 7 | #32 of 51 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 670 | #374 of 1,216 | #23 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.5:1 | #410 of 1,058 | #21 of 50 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.6% | #309 of 1,070 | #21 of 50 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.9% | #476 of 1,167 | #18 of 53 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.3% | #93 of 339 | #2 of 11 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
670
+157 (+31%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 1,006
Student : Teacher
10.5:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 670 | 64 | 10.5:1 | 77% (515) |
| 2023-24 | 645 | 59.6 | 10.8:1 | 74% (480) |
| 2022-23 | 560 | 52.9 | 10.6:1 | 71% (398) |
| 2020-21 | 513 | 44 | 11.7:1 | 74% (380) |
| 2017-18 | 581 | 31 | 18.7:1 | 86% (500) |
| 2015-16 | 408 | 27 | 15.1:1 | 83% (340) |
| 2010-11 | 605 | 44 | 13.8:1 | 99% (598) |
| 2000-01 | 586 | 41 | 14.3:1 | 51% (297) |
| 1990-91 | 1,006 | 78 | 12.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL.
About LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL
LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school in LACKAWANNA, New York, under LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Its 670 students are spread across grades 9 through 12.
LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 4 schools and 2,091 students, LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL among them.
At 61%, White students outnumber all other groups at LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL combined. The school is also 16% Black, 15% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 74%. The chance that two students picked at random at LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 58%.
The school employs the equivalent of 64 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 10.5:1. High schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 11.0:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 77%. That is higher than the 51% average for public schools in Erie County.
Measured against New York public high schools, LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 46.7%. LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL scores 48.5%.
Within Erie County, median household income is about $72,839, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 38% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Federal data list 226 public schools in Erie County, with a combined enrollment of about 122,519.
The nearest public school is LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL, at less than a tenth of a mile. LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL saw enrollment rise 31% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 10.5 students per teacher, compared with 11.7 in 2020-21.
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Erie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
950,622
Census ACS
Median income
$72,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
38%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
226
122,519 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MARTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 573 students
- LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 444 students
- TRUMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 404 students
Other schools in LACKAWANNA
- GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 878 students
- MARTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 573 students
- LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 444 students
- TRUMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 404 students
Nearby schools
- LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 444
- MARTIN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 573
- GLOBAL CONCEPTS CHARTER SCHOOL0.8 mi · 878
- TRUMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 404
- WINCHESTER-POTTERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 422
- DISCOVERY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 541
Frequently asked questions
About LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOLHow large is LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL?
LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 670 students in grades 09-12.
Is LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL have?
LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL employs 64 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.5:1.
How diverse is LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL?
LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 61% White, 15% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL?
LACKAWANNA HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by LACKAWANNA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Erie County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.