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Amherst Central High School, Amherst, NY

CEP schoolAmherst Central High School is a public high school in Amherst, part of Amherst Central School District. It enrolled 865 students in 2024-25, with 10.8 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "AMHERST CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
865
Teachers (FTE)
80.0
Students per teacher
10.8
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 11.2. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school10.8
District11.2
New York11.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
4301 Main St, Amherst, NY 14226
Phone
(716)362-8100
District
Amherst Central School District
County
Erie County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
360292000061
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
275
Reduced-price lunch
12
Free or reduced-price lunch
28733.2% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

High schools elsewhere in Amherst

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.