WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a big 9-12 campus in WHITE PLAINS, New York, run under WHITE PLAINS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 2,239 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 235% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 7 schools operated by WHITE PLAINS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 6,782 students overall.

In terms of who attends, WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 18% White, 12% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 168 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Westchester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.7%, the actual is 62.2%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Westchester County shows median household earnings sit near $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MAMARONECK AVENUE SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WHITE PLAINS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has ticked up 3%, going from 2,167 students in 2018 to 2,239 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 55% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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