# ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362988004022`
- **School name**: ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY 12590
- **Address**: 99 MYERS CORNERS RD
- **District**: WAPPINGERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3629880`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 41.59703, -73.89229
- **Phone**: (845)298-5100
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7372634 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_C._Ketcham_High_School
- **Founded**: 1962

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,557
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 115
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 39.4%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 402)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 228

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 14.2% (231 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (10 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (22 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 28.1% (449 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 31
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 23.9%
- **Black/African American**: 4.4%
- **Asian**: 9.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 59.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 2.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 42.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.4% — 246 students
- **English Learners**: 1.8% — 29 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 133 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 58 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 24 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $26,984,943
- **Federal share**: 6.2%
- **State share**: 30.2%
- **Local share**: 63.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $15,331,927

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $98,315
- **Poverty rate**: 4.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 36.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,220
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.8 miles (WAPPINGER CREEK)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 10
- **Nearest brownfield**: 7.58 miles (FAMILY PARTNERSHIP CENTER)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: UNITED WAPPINGER WATER IMPROVEMENT DIST.
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.78491 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **JAMES S EVANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.63%)
- **FISHKILL PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.63%)
- **KINRY ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.63%)
- **BRINCKERHOFF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 0.54% (this school: 0.63%)
- **NASSAU SCHOOL** — 3.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.63%)

### graduation rate
- **HALDANE HIGH SCHOOL** — 12.5 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)
- **CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 14.1 mi away, 98% (this school: 97%)

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