SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL

SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL operates as a big senior high in SCHENECTADY, New York, part of SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 2,885 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL sits 332% bigger than that benchmark.

SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,948 students. SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Asian at 26%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 25% Black, 24% Hispanic, 16% White, 9% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

On the resource side, On paper, SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL has 217 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Schenectady County's rate of about 50%.

After controlling for student poverty, SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.7%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of -9.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Schenectady County indicate median household income runs about $79,623, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Schenectady County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,555 students), SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ONEIDA MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHENECTADY HIGH SCHOOL has rose 9%, going from 2,646 students in 2018 to 2,885 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 26% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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