OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a moderately sized high school in OLEAN, New York, one of the schools within OLEAN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves 668 students in grades 8 through 12.

Within OLEAN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,833 students, OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 11% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Cattaraugus County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 52.2%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cattaraugus County shows the typical household earns roughly $59,540 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Cattaraugus County runs 31 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,228 students), of which OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is OLEAN INTERMEDIATE-MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OLEAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has contracted 15%, going from 788 students in 2018 to 668 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 83% to 77% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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