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How has CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
511
High
DISTRICT 465 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360684000470
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL
311 FROWEIN RD, CENTER MORICHES, NY 11934 · (631) 878-0092 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL511 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of New York public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
11.2:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
145 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 122 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 121 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 123 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 131 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 14 | 3% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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 CENTER MORICHES 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
98.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 98 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 98.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 89.0% | 48.0% |
% 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
71.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (71.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL this school | 511 | 28.4% | 71.7% |
| PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL SAG HARBOR | 501 | 27.5% | 70.5% |
| MATTITUCK JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MATTITUCK | 524 | 27.5% | 68.5% |
| LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL LOCUST VALLEY | 583 | 27.3% | 88.2% |
| OYSTER BAY HIGH SCHOOL OYSTER BAY | 412 | 28.6% | 78.8% |
| NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL NORTH SALEM | 492 | 22.8% | 71.7% |
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 CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.7% | #311 of 1,135 | #29 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #637 of 1,109 ▲ 26 | #41 of 57 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 98.0% | #23 of 1,135 ▲ 262 | #1 of 56 ▲ 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 511 | #532 of 1,216 | #53 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #559 of 1,058 | #26 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.2% | #504 of 1,070 | #31 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.4% | #1,002 of 1,167 | #30 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.0% | #367 of 743 | #22 of 45 |
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
511
-38 (-7%) vs 2020
-9% since 1990-91, when it was 562
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 511 | 45.5 | 11.2:1 | 28% (145) |
| 2023-24 | 541 | 36.9 | 14.7:1 | 32% (175) |
| 2022-23 | 556 | 38.8 | 14.3:1 | 25% (139) |
| 2020-21 | 549 | 39 | 14.1:1 | 23% (129) |
| 2017-18 | 581 | 38.8 | 15.0:1 | 18% (102) |
| 2015-16 | 602 | 40 | 15.1:1 | 21% (125) |
| 2010-11 | 552 | 33 | 16.7:1 | 15% (81) |
| 2000-01 | 634 | 51 | 12.4:1 | 14% (90) |
| 1990-91 | 562 | 59 | 9.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL.
About CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL
This page covers CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL, a low-enrollment high school in CENTER MORICHES, New York. The school counts 511 students across grades 9 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in New York is about 668 students.
The district, CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 3 schools serving 1,394 students.
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment is 67% White. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 4% Black. The county population is about 66% White, within a few points of the school. The chance that two students picked at random at CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 49%.
The teaching staff at CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL is 45.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 11.2:1. High schools in New York have a similar average ratio of 11.0:1. About 28% of students, or 145, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 39% average among public schools in Suffolk County.
allk12 grades CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL a B+. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 71.7% and a predicted 64.6%.
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL is located in Suffolk County, where median household income is about $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County, which together enroll about 222,439 students.
The shortest distance from CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to CENTER MORICHES MIDDLE SCHOOL. The five-mile area around CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 54.2%, lower than CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL's 71.7%.
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.
The number of students declined from 549 to 511 over 4 years. Students per teacher fell from 14.1 in 2020-21 to 11.2 in 2024-25.
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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 CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 586 students
- CENTER MORICHES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 297 students
Other schools in CENTER MORICHES
- CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 586 students
- CENTER MORICHES MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 297 students
Nearby schools
- CENTER MORICHES MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 297
- CLAYTON HUEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 586
- WILLIAM FLOYD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,124
- MORICHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 861
- EASTPORT-SOUTH MANOR JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL2.0 mi · 1,469
- EAST MORICHES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.1 mi · 337
Frequently asked questions
About CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOLHow large is CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL?
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 511 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL serve?
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL have?
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL?
At CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 67% White, 24% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% Asian.
Who oversees CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL?
CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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