BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Set in BAY SHORE, New York, BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a well-populated four-year high school, part of BAY SHORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 1,862 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 179% bigger than that benchmark.

BAY SHORE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 5,529 students. BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 22% White, 19% Black, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 169 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.7%, the actual is 72.5%, a residual of +13.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

FIFTH AVENUE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.8%.

BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BAY SHORE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has fell 5%, going from 1,962 students in 2018 to 1,862 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 30% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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