Enrollment
284
High
DISTRICT 304 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362688003666
SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL
1 DICKINSON ST, SILVER CREEK, NY 14136 · (716) 934-2603 · Chautauqua County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL284 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 59% of New York public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
140 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 68 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 70 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 67 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 75 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
89.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
49.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.0% | 49.0% |
| 2023-24 | 91.0% | 47.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL
SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (64.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL this school | 284 | 49.3% | 64.3% |
| SIDNEY HIGH SCHOOL SIDNEY | 342 | 49.1% | 81.0% |
| THOMAS A EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ELMIRA HEIGHTS | 321 | 53.0% | 74.8% |
| NORTH ROSE-WOLCOTT HIGH SCHOOL WOLCOTT | 326 | 46.6% | 46.2% |
| RED JACKET HIGH SCHOOL SHORTSVILLE | 232 | 47.8% | 59.8% |
| LITTLE FALLS HIGH SCHOOL LITTLE FALLS | 331 | 51.1% | 73.0% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Chautauqua County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #451 of 1,135 | #6 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #617 of 1,109 ▲ 59 | #12 of 17 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.0% | #224 of 1,135 ▲ 30 | #1 of 17 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 284 | #955 of 1,216 | #9 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.3:1 | #184 of 1,058 | #6 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 43.5% | #619 of 1,070 | #3 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.3% | #703 of 1,167 | #9 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.7% | #664 of 743 | #13 of 14 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
284
-25 (-8%) vs 2020
-44% since 1990-91, when it was 504
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 11.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 284 | 30.6 | 9.3:1 | 49% (140) |
| 2023-24 | 294 | 32.5 | 9.1:1 | 45% (132) |
| 2022-23 | 308 | 31 | 9.9:1 | 55% (168) |
| 2020-21 | 309 | 27 | 11.4:1 | 50% (156) |
| 2017-18 | 292 | 23 | 12.7:1 | 47% (138) |
| 2015-16 | 293 | 18 | 16.3:1 | 52% (152) |
| 2010-11 | 325 | 26 | 12.5:1 | 42% (138) |
| 2000-01 | 779 | 60 | 13.0:1 | 29% (224) |
| 1990-91 | 504 | 40 | 12.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
About SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL
SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is a small high school. Its address is in SILVER CREEK, New York. In all, 284 students attend the school in grades 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 57% below the 668-student average for high schools in New York.
In SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, 3 schools enroll a combined 912 students.
The share of White students at SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is 74%, a majority. It is also 11% Native American, 8% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Chautauqua County is roughly 86% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 44%.
Its staff includes 30.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 9.3 students per teacher. Across high schools in New York, the average ratio is 11.0:1. SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 49%. That is 8 points below the 57% average for public schools in Chautauqua County.
Among New York public high schools, SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL outscored 59%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is +7.5 points: 64.3% actual, 56.9% predicted.
In Chautauqua County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $58,351 a year, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL, Chautauqua County has 51 public schools.
SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest public school to SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, 4 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is coded as Rural: Fringe in federal locale data.
Enrollment was 284 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 309. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.4:1 to 9.3:1.
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Chautauqua County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
125,544
Census ACS
Median income
$58,351
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
17,056 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 200 students
Other schools in SILVER CREEK
- SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 200 students
Other Silver Creek High schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Silver Creek High. SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Silver Creek HighSan Jose, CA · 2,139 students
- Silver Creek High SchoolLONGMONT, CO · 1,208 students
- Silver Creek High SchoolSellersburg, IN · 976 students
- SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOLHAILEY, ID · 51 students
Nearby schools
- SILVER CREEK MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 200
- SILVER CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.0 mi · 428
- FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL4.6 mi · 185
- FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL4.7 mi · 211
- A J SCHMIDT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL7.6 mi · 247
- SCHOOL 78.2 mi · 134
Frequently asked questions
About SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL?
SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 284 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 9.3:1 students per teacher at SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL?
SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 74% White, 6% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL in?
SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL is part of SILVER CREEK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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