SHENENDEHOWA HIGH SCHOOL

SHENENDEHOWA HIGH SCHOOL, a sprawling 9-12 campus in CLIFTON PARK, New York, overseen by SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 2,968 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 344% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

SHENENDEHOWA HIGH SCHOOL is one of 12 schools operated by SHENENDEHOWA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 9,348 students overall.

On the student-mix side, SHENENDEHOWA HIGH SCHOOL logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 12% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SHENENDEHOWA HIGH SCHOOL has 220 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at SHENENDEHOWA 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, SHENENDEHOWA HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.0%; this one delivers 85.5%.

In the broader community, Saratoga County reports that the typical household earns roughly $100,787 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Saratoga County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,097 students), SHENENDEHOWA HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GOWANA MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SHENENDEHOWA HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 74.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SHENENDEHOWA HIGH SCHOOL has declined 9%, going from 3,246 students in 2018 to 2,968 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 81% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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