WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 10 KEIBEL RD, in WHITNEY POINT, New York, WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a compact secondary school that serves 393 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within WHITNEY POINT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

WHITNEY POINT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,374 students; WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.3%; this one delivers 68.2%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Broome County shows the typical household earns roughly $62,616 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Broome County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,594 students), of which WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CARYL E ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WHITNEY POINT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 423 students in 2018 compared to 393 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 97% to 93% over that span.

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