WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL

WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL is one of the micro-enrollment four-year high schools in AMENIA, New York, overseen by NORTHEAST CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 194 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 71% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by NORTHEAST CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 643 students overall.

In terms of who attends, WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 42% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dutchess County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dutchess County (around 40%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -16.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dutchess County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $99,478 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL is one of 76 public schools in Dutchess County (combined enrollment of about 36,885 students).

EUGENE BROOKS INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEBUTUCK HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.3%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 218 students in 2018 compared to 194 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 53% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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