MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier high schools in SCHENECTADY, New York, part of ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 924 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 38% larger than the state mean of about 668.

ROTTERDAM-MOHONASEN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,772 students; MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school reports 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Black, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Schenectady County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.4%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Schenectady County indicate median household earnings sit near $79,623, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Schenectady County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students), of which MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

DRAPER MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. MOHONASEN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 893 (now 924). The White share of enrollment declined from 81% to 68% over that span.

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