CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 168 CHERRY LN, in CARLE PLACE, New York, CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a reasonably sized secondary school that instructs 617 students (grades 7 through 12), run under CARLE PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 3 schools in CARLE PLACE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,307 students total), CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment; the rest looks like 25% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 3% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 24% of students at CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 80.2%, a residual of +14.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Nassau County put the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

The closest other public school is CHERRY LANE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 62.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 630 students in 2018 compared to 617 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 68% to 61%.

On this page, members of the CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.