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Enrollment
936
High
DISTRICT 560 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360294000063
AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
250 MERRICK RD, AMITYVILLE, NY 11701 · (631) 565-6100 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL936 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 25% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
79 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
642 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 190 | 20% |
| Grade 10 | 202 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 227 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 298 | 32% |
| Ungraded | 19 | 2% |
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
70.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
42.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 42.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 38.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (46.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL this school | 936 | 68.6% | 46.2% |
| WYANDANCH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL WYANDANCH | 850 | 76.0% | 39.2% |
| ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL ROOSEVELT | 1,127 | 58.9% | 45.5% |
| LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CEDARHURST | 764 | 73.0% | 39.0% |
| EAST SIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 693 | 69.4% | 54.7% |
| WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL OLD WESTBURY | 1,574 | 64.3% | 52.2% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.2% | #800 of 1,135 | #54 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #711 of 1,109 ▲ 70 | #46 of 57 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #580 of 1,135 ▲ 101 | #48 of 56 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 936 | #261 of 1,216 | #36 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #679 of 1,058 | #35 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.9% | #450 of 1,070 | #26 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.6% | #536 of 1,167 | #4 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +24.6% | #63 of 339 | #1 of 12 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
936
+10 (+1%) vs 2020
+64% since 1990-91, when it was 572
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 936 | 78.8 | 11.9:1 | 69% (642) |
| 2023-24 | 953 | 90.2 | 10.6:1 | 63% (601) |
| 2022-23 | 968 | 88.7 | 10.9:1 | 70% (680) |
| 2020-21 | 926 | 83 | 11.2:1 | 72% (666) |
| 2017-18 | 751 | 62.2 | 12.1:1 | 71% (530) |
| 2015-16 | 767 | 58 | 13.2:1 | 69% (532) |
| 2010-11 | 701 | 54 | 13.0:1 | 39% (271) |
| 2000-01 | 707 | 54 | 13.1:1 | 37% (260) |
| 1990-91 | 572 | 48 | 11.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL.
About AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
Among the schools in AMITYVILLE, New York, is AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, a mid-sized high school. It teaches 936 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, high schools in New York enroll about 668 students on average.
AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL. It runs 5 schools with 2,802 students.
The student body at AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is 63% Hispanic. The school is also 29% Black, 3% White, and 3% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 23%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 52, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, there are about 11.9 students; the school has 78.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for high schools in New York is 11.0:1, so this school has more students per teacher. There are 642 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 69% of enrollment. Public schools in Suffolk County average 39%.
AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 25% of New York public high schools.
The model predicts 49.8% for a school in New York with AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL posts 46.2%.
Looking at the county, Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Counting AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, Suffolk County has 343 public schools.
AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is DEAUVILLE GARDENS WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.5 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL's average proficiency of 46.2% compares with 46.7% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 926 in 2020-21 to 936 in 2024-25, a change of 10 students.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 604 students
- EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 592 students
- NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 525 students
- NORTHEAST SCHOOLElementary · 145 students
Other schools in AMITYVILLE
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 604 students
- EDMUND W MILES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 592 students
- NORTHWEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 525 students
- NORTHEAST SCHOOLElementary · 145 students
Nearby schools
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 427
- DEAUVILLE GARDENS EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 465
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 604
- GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 428
- SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 611
- BERNER MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,487
Frequently asked questions
About AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHow large is AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL?
AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 936 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL serve?
AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.9:1 students per teacher at AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 3% White, 63% Hispanic, 29% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL in?
AMITYVILLE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is part of AMITYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.