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What's the biggest difference between NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
586
High
DISTRICT 363 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362064002895
NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
625 PEIRSON AVE, NEWARK, NY 14513 · (315) 332-3242 · Wayne County
GRADES 09–12HIGH32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
9.8:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
315 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 159 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 146 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 129 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 139 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 13 | 2% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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 NEWARK CENTRAL 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
77.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
28.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -19.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 77.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
52.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (52.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 586 | 53.8% | 52.7% |
| BATAVIA HIGH SCHOOL BATAVIA | 646 | 50.8% | 53.5% |
| TACONIC HILLSJUNIOR/SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CRARYVILLE | 471 | 55.6% | 47.4% |
| PORT JERVIS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PORT JERVIS | 743 | 55.6% | 63.5% |
| CHARLES D'AMICO HIGH SCHOOL ALBION | 499 | 59.5% | 73.7% |
| MEDINA JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MEDINA | 569 | 48.5% | 46.0% |
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 NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Wayne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #692 of 1,135 | #8 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #912 of 1,109 ▼ 235 | #9 of 11 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #474 of 1,135 ▲ 61 | #7 of 11 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #451 of 1,216 | #2 of 11 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #268 of 1,058 | #8 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.1% | #443 of 1,070 | #2 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.8% | #654 of 1,167 | #3 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #561 of 743 | #8 of 9 |
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
586
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 713
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 10.1:1
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 | 586 | 59.9 | 9.8:1 | 54% (315) |
| 2023-24 | 576 | 64.2 | 9.0:1 | 55% (316) |
| 2022-23 | 602 | 62.6 | 9.6:1 | 54% (326) |
| 2020-21 | 603 | 60 | 10.1:1 | 50% (300) |
| 2017-18 | 625 | 56 | 11.2:1 | 52% (328) |
| 2015-16 | 643 | 54 | 11.9:1 | 49% (315) |
| 2010-11 | 702 | 59 | 11.9:1 | 42% (292) |
| 2000-01 | 931 | 74 | 12.6:1 | 15% (142) |
| 1990-91 | 713 | 59 | 12.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school in NEWARK, New York, reachable at (315) 332-3242. The school covers grades 9 through 12 and reported 586 students in 2024-25.
The NEWARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 5 schools and 1,817 students.
About 66% of the student body at NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is White. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 10% Black, and 5% multiracial. By comparison, Wayne County residents are about 88% White. A diversity index of 52% means there is a 52% chance two randomly chosen students at NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
Teacher count: 59.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 9.8:1. The average for high schools in New York, 11.0:1, is higher. Roughly 54% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 33% of New York public high schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 2.5 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 52.7% actual, 55.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
The school is in Wayne County, where the median household earns about $74,506 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Across Wayne County, 37 public schools serve about 13,068 students.
NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 5 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is ahead of the 35.4% nearby average, ranking 1st of 6.
The school's federal locale classification is Town: Distant.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 603 (2020-21) to 586 (2024-25).
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Wayne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
90,929
Census ACS
Median income
$74,506
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
13,068 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NEWARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 395 students
- NORMAN R KELLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 363 students
- PERKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 266 students
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 207 students
Other schools in NEWARK
- ONTARIO-SENECA-YATES-CAYUGA-WAYNE BOCESCombined · 715 students
- NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 395 students
- NORMAN R KELLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 363 students
- PERKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 266 students
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 207 students
Nearby schools
- NEWARK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 395
- PERKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 266
- NORMAN R KELLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 363
- ONTARIO-SENECA-YATES-CAYUGA-WAYNE BOCES1.4 mi · 715
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 207
- MIDLAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL5.5 mi · 761
Frequently asked questions
About NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 586 students in grades 09-12.
Is NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 9.8:1 (60 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 66% White, 18% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
NEWARK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of NEWARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.