LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Set in LYONS, New York, LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is an one-room-style 9-12 campus, part of LYONS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 266 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 60% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

Within LYONS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 917 students, LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school logs 14% multiracial, 11% Black, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 59.7%, a residual of +8.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Wayne County shows median household income runs about $74,506, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Wayne County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,068 students), LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LYONS MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 37.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LYONS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has rose 8%, going from 246 students in 2018 to 266 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 76% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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