# SWEET HOME SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362850003832`
- **School name**: SWEET HOME SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: AMHERST, NY 14228
- **Address**: 1901 SWEET HOME RD
- **District**: SWEET HOME CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3628500`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 43.01020, -78.79730
- **Phone**: (716)250-1203
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7655356 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Home_High_School_(Amherst,_New_York)
- **Founded**: 1956

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,105
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 91
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 48.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS ELP: 3
  - HS Core Performance: 3
  - HS Weight Performance: 3
  - HS Grad Rate: 3
  - 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**: 88.0% (cohort of 280)
- **2021**: 94.0% (cohort of 283)
- **2019**: 96.0% (cohort of 250)
- **2018**: 91.0% (cohort of 257)
- **2017**: 94.0% (cohort of 264)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 87

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 56.8% (590 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.7% (8 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (7 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 20.9% (228 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 2
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 6.3%
- **Black/African American**: 7.6%
- **Asian**: 21.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 61.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 3.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 45.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.5% — 104 students
- **English Learners**: 2.9% — 32 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 53 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 11 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 10 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 9 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $27,645
- **Federal share**: $1,134
- **State + local share**: $26,511
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,090
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,602,484
- **Federal share**: 9.1%
- **State share**: 31.4%
- **Local share**: 59.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,095,238

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 88.1%
- **Unemployment**: 0.7%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.0%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 11.4 miles (HOOKER S AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 26
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.80 miles (TRIANGLE AREA)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.87049 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 1.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **WILLOW RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.73%)
- **HERITAGE HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.73%)
- **SWEET HOME MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.4 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 0.73%)
- **GLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.73%)
- **HEIM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.73%)

### graduation rate
- **KENMORE EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.3 mi away, 93% (this school: 88%)
- **WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.2 mi away, 91% (this school: 88%)
- **AMHERST CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 96% (this school: 88%)
- **KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 89% (this school: 88%)
- **WILLIAMSVILLE SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.5 mi away, 94% (this school: 88%)

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