NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the reasonably sized senior highs in NEW PALTZ, New York, one of the schools within NEW PALTZ CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 622 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Across the 4 schools in NEW PALTZ CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,673 students total), NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder breaks down as 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ulster County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.1%, the actual is 81.0%, a residual of +15.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ulster County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $86,271 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 45 public schools in Ulster County (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students).

LENAPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has declined 22%, going from 799 students in 2018 to 622 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 78% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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