SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Set in LINCOLNDALE, New York, SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a mid-tier secondary school, part of SOMERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 847 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 27% above typical.

SOMERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,475 students; SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 14% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 70.0%; actual is 93.3%, +23.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Westchester County) logs that median household income runs about $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PRIMROSE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 67.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 1,086 students in 2018 compared to 847 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 88% to 77%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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