Somers Senior High School, Lincolndale NY

Original Research by School Decision on Somers Senior High School

Somers Senior High School is a mid-sized public high school serving grades 9 through 12 in the Somers Central School District, located in Lincolndale, a small hamlet in northern Westchester County. The school enrolls a mix of students drawn from a predominantly white, suburban community with a modest share of students from Black, Hispanic, and Asian backgrounds. Roughly one in eight students qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating relatively low economic disadvantage across the enrollment.

The hamlet of Lincolndale itself is primarily residential with a suburban-rural character and high homeownership rates. It sits among several other Somers hamlets and includes a lake community but has no distinct town center of its own; reviewers describe it as having a small, community-based feel. The area is car-dependent, with limited public transit beyond the Westchester County Bee-Line bus system serving nearby corridors. Lincolndale's population has been declining in recent counts, though town planning has long emphasized controlled, low-density growth through zoning ordinances dating back decades. The region once anchored itself on two major corporate campuses, the Pepsi Bottling Group headquarters and an I. M. Pei-designed IBM complex, but both have relocated, removing the area's dominant employers.

State assessment data for the high school was not available, so direct reading of proficiency or achievement gaps cannot be made. Graduation rates and chronic absenteeism data were also not reported for this school, making it difficult to assess retention or attendance patterns relative to county districts. These absences may reflect the state's testing structure, data reporting delays, or gaps in this school's public reporting.

The district has undergone meaningful curriculum shifts that shape what students encounter. The Somers Central School District has built a K-12 International Baccalaureate framework, with the middle school earning IB Middle Years Programme accreditation and the high school extending that programme into grades 9 and 10, sitting alongside the IB Diploma Programme for juniors and seniors. This creates a continuous, inquiry-based learning pathway for families drawn to internationally recognized pedagogy. The district has also approved a multi-year capital improvement bond covering infrastructure upgrades including HVAC and energy-efficiency work, with no additional local tax burden to families, phased toward completion by 2027.

The school itself is located at an address in Lincolndale but operates within a broader campus-based setting rather than a walkable village center. The enrollment spans all four high school grades with roughly balanced numbers per grade. Beyond the IB framework, specific course breadth, AP offerings, career and technical pathways, and specialized programs were not detailed in available data.

A parent or resident considering this school would encounter a stable, low-density residential community with an established commitment to a particular pedagogical approach. The lack of state testing and graduation data means families may want to look into those metrics directly with the school or district to understand recent performance and college-going outcomes.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

96.0%Cohort of 285 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,253 schools plotted. 14 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Advanced Placement & IB

39 subjects offered · 2023-24

Each card is one AP or IB subject. The headline number is the share of students scoring 3 or higher on the exam — the threshold for college credit at most universities. The bar below each rate shows the underlying distribution across performance levels.

Score:12· no credit345· extremely well qualified

Math and Computer Science

Calculus AB

24 tested

70.8%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

13 tested · Grade 10

76.9%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

52 tested

55.8%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

33 tested

84.8%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

31 tested

74.2%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

11 tested · Grade 10

72.7%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

9 tested

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

14 tested

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

14 tested

85.7%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

17 tested

76.5%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

66 tested

59.1%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

66 tested

59.1%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

93 tested

89.2%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

French Language and Culture

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

German Language and Culture

1 tested · Grade 9

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

23 tested

34.8%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

17 tested

47.1%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

International Baccalaureate

Ib Business and Management SL

55 tested

96.4%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Dance SL

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Environmental Systems SL

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Film HL

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Film SL

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib History Hl History of the Americas

25 tested

88.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language a Language and Literature English HL

29 tested

79.3%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language Ab Initio Spanish SL

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language B French HL

17 tested

58.8%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language B Spanish HL

7 tested

85.7%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Literature and Performance SL

15 tested

86.7%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Mathematics Applications and Interpretation SL

17 tested

47.1%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Psychology SL

32 tested

87.5%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Sports Exercise and Health Science SL

39 tested

79.5%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Visual Arts SL

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

101 tested · Grade 10

62.4%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

67 tested

73.1%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

World History

54 tested · Grade 10

88.9%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Social Studies	218	96.0%
Ela	217	94.0%
Math	151	92.0%
Science	9	100.0%

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.