NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL

NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL is one of the middle-of-the-pack four-year high schools in NORTH TONAWANDA, New York, overseen by NORTH TONAWANDA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 961 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 44% above the state mean of about 668.

NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by NORTH TONAWANDA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 3,126 students overall.

On demographics, NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder reads as 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Niagara County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL has 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.5%, the actual is 69.2%, a residual of +9.7 points.

Across the wider county, Niagara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,633 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Niagara County (combined enrollment of about 26,388 students).

NORTH TONAWANDA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.5%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. NORTH TONAWANDA HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,078 (now 961). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 89% to 85%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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