WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized secondary school in WEST SENECA, New York, run under WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 779 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,870 students; WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Black, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Erie County's rate of about 51%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.5%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,839 per year, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WEST SENECA EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 54.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 924 students in 2018 compared to 779 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 87% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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