WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a high-enrollment secondary school in WEST SENECA, New York, operated by WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 1,069 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 60% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Across the 9 schools in WEST SENECA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,870 students total), WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 37% of students at WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Erie County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.3%, the actual is 69.5%, a residual of +8.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Erie County shows median household income runs about $72,839, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Erie County runs 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), of which WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST SENECA WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has decreased 13%, going from 1,231 students in 2018 to 1,069 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 90% to 85% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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