WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL

Set in CORTLANDT MANOR, New York, WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL is a reasonably sized high school, part of LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 845 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

LAKELAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,232 students; WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 38% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.9%; this one delivers 81.8%.

In the broader community, Westchester County reports that median household income runs about $118,976, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LINCOLN TITUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 62.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. WALTER PANAS HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 918 (now 845). White enrollment moved from 66% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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