Continental School of Beauty Culture-West Seneca
About
Continental School of Beauty Culture-West Seneca is a cosmetology school located in West Seneca, NY, with campuses also in Rochester and Syracuse. It offers programs in hairdressing and cosmetology, esthetics, barbering, and nail specialty. While the founding year is not mentioned, the school focuses on providing practical training for careers in the beauty industry.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 23.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 1 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 1 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data1 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Action history · 2
- Jan 2021Renewal of AccreditationNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Jan 2019Grant Substantive Change: OwnershipNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 100 students received $452K in Pell grants, alongside $548K in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 136 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at CSBCS
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
CSBCS vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions CSBCS selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectContinental School of Beauty Culture-West Seneca | 78% | — | 78 | $16,000 | — |
ABC Beauty Academy | — | — | 52 | $10,107 | — |
Aveda Institute-Madison | — | — | 88 | $13,950 | — |
Bayshire Academy of Beauty Craft Inc | — | — | 97 | $4,309 | — |
Belbo Beauty Institute | — | — | 84 | $23,914 | — |
Beyond 21st Century Beauty Academy | — | — | 120 | $19,155 | — |
Capri Beauty College | — | — | 33 | $10,777 | — |
Charleston Cosmetology Institute | — | — | 100 | $15,686 | — |
Corinth Academy of Cosmetology | — | — | 90 | $21,666 | — |
Cutting Edge Academy | — | — | 99 | $30,484 | — |
Delaware Learning Institute of Cosmetology | — | — | 81 | $15,874 | — |
DuVall's School of Cosmetology | — | — | 65 | $17,859 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Northlake | — | — | 127 | $15,771 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Tampa | — | — | 111 | $18,774 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Union | — | — | 103 | $18,215 | — |
Empire Beauty School-York | — | — | 90 | $18,035 | — |
First Class Cosmetology School | — | — | 92 | $16,411 | — |
House of Heavilin Beauty College-Kansas City | — | — | 55 | $21,470 | — |
L Makeup Institute | — | — | 73 | $28,320 | — |
Lyle's College of Beauty | — | — | 70 | $19,746 | — |
Ohio State Beauty Academy | — | — | 91 | $6,962 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Miami | — | — | — | $20,559 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Normal | — | — | 46 | $16,843 | — |
Rob Roy Academy-Fall River | — | — | 97 | $29,207 | — |
Salon Success Academy-West Covina | — | — | 75 | $16,649 | — |
The Salon Professional Academy Maplewood | — | — | 85 | $12,523 | — |
The Salon Professional Academy-Appleton | — | — | 81 | $10,859 | — |
The Spa School | — | — | 111 | $18,676 | — |
Traxlers School of Hair | — | — | 98 | $11,006 | — |
Tricoci University of Beauty Culture-Normal | — | — | 171 | $17,607 | — |
Turning Point Beauty College | — | — | 106 | $14,433 | — |
| Peer group median | 78% | — | 90 | $16,843 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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