PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a big secondary school in PINE BUSH, New York, operated by PINE BUSH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 1,562 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 134% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 7 schools in PINE BUSH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,710 students total), PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 27% Hispanic, 13% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 107 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 43% of students at PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Orange County shows median household earnings sit near $97,178, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Orange County runs 82 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,122 students), of which PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PINE BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 52.0%.

PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,700 (now 1,562). White enrollment moved from 65% to 52% across the same window.

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