THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL

THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of sizable scale in WEBSTER, New York, overseen by WEBSTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 1,256 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL sits 88% bigger than that benchmark.

Within WEBSTER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 11 schools and 7,940 students, THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL shows that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 109 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.7%; this one delivers 78.7%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Monroe County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WILLINK MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), THOMAS HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 62.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 1,329 students in 2018 compared to 1,256 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 89% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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