# DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360942000719`
- **School name**: DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: DUNKIRK, NY 14048
- **Address**: 75 W 6TH ST
- **District**: DUNKIRK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3609420`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 42.47740, -79.33980
- **Phone**: (716)366-9300
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5315388 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_High_School
- **Founded**: 1965

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 882
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 90
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 71.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Grad Rate: 1
  - HS ELP: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 2
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - EM Growth: 1
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM ELP: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - 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**: 76.0% (cohort of 138)
- **2021**: 72.0% (cohort of 171)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 13

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 73.8% (429 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (17 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (13 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.6% (68 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 18
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 49.5%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 4.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 42.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 3.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 64.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 7.0% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 10.9% — 98 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 36 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $26,718
- **Federal share**: $4,198
- **State + local share**: $22,520
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 894
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $28,043,689
- **Federal share**: 17.9%
- **State share**: 66.6%
- **Local share**: 15.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,577,670

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $62,685
- **Poverty rate**: 33.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 18.4%
- **Unemployment**: 5.3%
- **Median gross rent**: $738
- **Foreign-born residents**: 4.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 28.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 33.6 miles (LITTLE VALLEY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 5
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 13
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.43 miles (307 315 BRIGHAM ROAD)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: DUNKIRK CITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 2
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-10-17

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.5431 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.9 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 1.69% (this school: 1.9%)
- **FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0.48% (this school: 1.9%)
- **FREDONIA HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0.82% (this school: 1.9%)
- **FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 0.96% (this school: 1.9%)
- **WHEELOCK PRIMARY SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 39% (this school: 31%)
- **FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 42% (this school: 31%)
- **FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.2 mi away, 50% (this school: 31%)
- **FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 53% (this school: 31%)

### graduation rate
- **FREDONIA HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 85% (this school: 76%)
- **FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 94% (this school: 76%)
- **BROCTON MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.7 mi away, 89% (this school: 76%)
- **SILVER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL** — 9.8 mi away, 92% (this school: 76%)

### math proficiency
- **DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 38.5% (this school: 36%)
- **FREDONIA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 50% (this school: 36%)
- **FREDONIA MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 71% (this school: 36%)
- **FORESTVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.2 mi away, 74% (this school: 36%)
- **FORESTVILLE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.3 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 36%)

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