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Lehman Alternative Community School, Ithaca, NY

CEP schoolLehman Alternative Community School is a public high school in Ithaca, part of Ithaca City School District. It enrolled 265 students in 2024-25, with 9.1 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "LEHMAN ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
265
Teachers (FTE)
29.0
Students per teacher
9.1
Grades
6 to 12

This school's ratio is 1.5 lower than the district figure of 10.6. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school9.1
District10.6
New York11.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
111 Chestnut St, Ithaca, NY 14850
County
Tompkins County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
361557001328
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
98
Reduced-price lunch
1
Free or reduced-price lunch
9937.4% 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

Other high schools in Ithaca City School District

High schools elsewhere in Ithaca

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.