# AMHERST CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360292000061`
- **School name**: AMHERST CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: AMHERST, NY 14226
- **Address**: 4301 MAIN ST
- **District**: AMHERST CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3602920`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.96240, -78.79040
- **Phone**: (716)362-8100
- **Wikidata QID**: Q4746018 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_Central_High_School
- **Founded**: 1930

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 865
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 80
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 33.2%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 3
  - HS CCCR: 3
  - HS Weight Performance: 4
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS ELP: 3
  - HS Grad Rate: 4
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 96.0% (cohort of 229)
- **2021**: 96.0% (cohort of 209)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 144

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 11.0% (97 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 9.9% (88 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 20
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.7%
- **Black/African American**: 8.6%
- **Asian**: 13.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 67.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 4.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 30.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 114 students
- **English Learners**: 2.5% — 22 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 60 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 28 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $23,001
- **Federal share**: $991
- **State + local share**: $22,010
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 879
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $29,021,993
- **Federal share**: 24.1%
- **State share**: 26.9%
- **Local share**: 49.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $13,059,980

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $130,396
- **Poverty rate**: 6.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 67.0%
- **Unemployment**: 3.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $913
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 6.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 13.4 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 53
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.21 miles (1 LIBERTY)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.87049 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **LEONARDO DA VINCI HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 96%)
- **CITY HONORS SCHOOL** — 5.4 mi away, 99% (this school: 96%)
- **LANCASTER HIGH SCHOOL** — 6.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 96%)
- **ORCHARD PARK HIGH SCHOOL** — 13.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 96%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/amherst-central-high-school-amherst/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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