Letchworth High School is a public
high school
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in
Gainesville, New York. It is part of the Letchworth Central School District and serves the towns of Gainesville,
Pike
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Fish
* Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus''
* Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
* ''Esox'', genus of ...
,
Castile, and
Eagle
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, and the villages of
Silver Springs and
Bliss
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.
Letchworth library
The mission of the Letchworth Central Middle and High School Library Media Program is to "ensure that students and staff are effective and discriminating life-long users of information." Effective use of information requires access to information in traditional, up-to-date, and future methods of technologies. It is essential that the school library media program be integrated into the existing curriculum of every classroom, since "no one part of the system can achieve satisfactory results without the cooperation of other parts of the whole."
Teachers
The Student-Teacher Ratio is 12.
[Source: NYSED, 2004–2005 This School State Average]
Average years teaching is 13, Average years teaching in district is 11, First-year teachers 3%.
24% of teachers have a bachelor's degree and 76% have a master's degree with 1% having a doctorate degree.
Students
Student Ethnicity for 2004-2005 was 99% White, non-Hispanic and 1% African American.
[NYSED, 2004–2005 Ethnicity This School State Average]
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Public high schools in New York (state)
Schools in Wyoming County, New York