Public school / High
Watertown Senior High School
Watertown, New York
- NCES ID
- 363012004057
- District
- Watertown City School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Watertown Senior High School is a public high school in Watertown, New York, run by Watertown City School District. It enrols 1,083 students — the 7249th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,083
Teachers
77.0
Students per teacher
14.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
65.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Watertown City School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Watertown Senior High School1,083 students
- 2Case Middle School626 students
- 3Harold T Wiley School574 students
- 4North Elementary School455 students
- 5Knickerbocker School364 students
- 6Sherman School320 students
- 7Ohio Street School301 students
- 8Starbuck Elementary School185 students
- Enrollment+139.1%
- Teachers+108.1%
- Students per teacher+22.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+11.8%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory