ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a heavily attended four-year high school in WAPPINGERS FALLS, New York, run under WAPPINGERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 1,557 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 133% bigger than that benchmark.

ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 15 schools operated by WAPPINGERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 10,199 students overall.

On the student-mix side, ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 31% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 116 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 39% of students at ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dutchess County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,478, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Dutchess County runs 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students), of which ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

MYERS CORNERS SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 56.5%.

ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,748 (now 1,557). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 64% to 51%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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