SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of mid-tier scale in SAUGERTIES, New York, part of SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 800 students in grades 9 through 12.

Within SAUGERTIES CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,287 students, SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest breaks down as 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 42% 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, SAUGERTIES SENIOR 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 66.5%, a residual of +7.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Ulster County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,271 per year, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Ulster County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,189 students), of which SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

SAUGERTIES JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 53.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SAUGERTIES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 5%, going from 841 students in 2018 to 800 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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