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Enrollment
1,467
High
DISTRICT 1,510 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361920001736
CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL
14 43RD ST, CENTEREACH, NY 11720 · (631) 285-8100 · Suffolk County
GRADES 08–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,467 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% 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.
- CBeats 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
13.7:1
107 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
635 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 8 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 9 | 346 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 359 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 319 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 385 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 57 | 4% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
85.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
45.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +13.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.0% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 88.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
56.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL
CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (56.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,467 | 43.3% | 56.7% |
| NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL SELDEN | 1,553 | 45.1% | 53.3% |
| ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 1,557 | 39.4% | 58.5% |
| PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PINE BUSH | 1,562 | 43.0% | 74.0% |
| LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LINDENHURST | 1,868 | 45.7% | 63.3% |
| KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL KINGSTON | 1,749 | 45.4% | 57.3% |
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 CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.7% | #609 of 1,135 | #45 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #671 of 1,109 ▲ 190 | #43 of 57 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #325 of 1,135 ▼ 1 | #34 of 56 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,467 | #105 of 1,216 | #19 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #903 of 1,058 | #50 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #222 of 1,070 | #13 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.3% | #796 of 1,167 | #20 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.8% | #544 of 743 | #35 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
1,467
-36 (-2%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 1,734
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 1,467 | 107.3 | 13.7:1 | 43% (635) |
| 2023-24 | 1,464 | 116.4 | 12.6:1 | 38% (557) |
| 2022-23 | 1,475 | 113.1 | 13.1:1 | 35% (517) |
| 2020-21 | 1,503 | 111 | 13.5:1 | 21% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 1,574 | 107 | 14.7:1 | 26% (415) |
| 2015-16 | 1,530 | 107 | 14.3:1 | 32% (486) |
| 2010-11 | 1,699 | 109 | 15.6:1 | 19% (322) |
| 2000-01 | 1,476 | 96 | 15.4:1 | 6% (95) |
| 1990-91 | 1,734 | 121 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL.
About CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL
At 14 43RD ST in CENTEREACH, New York, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL operates as a large high school. The school had 1,467 students in grades 8 through 12 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (high schools in New York) has about 668 students.
MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is responsible for 14 schools, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL included, with 9,410 students in all.
White students account for 51% of enrollment at CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL. Enrollment also includes 32% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% Black, and 3% multiracial. The school's White share is 15 points below the 66% share among Suffolk County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
The school employs the equivalent of 107.3 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 13.7:1. Among high schools in New York, the typical ratio is 11.0:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 43%.
CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 36% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 59.1% for CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL. The school posts 56.7%, 2.4 points below the prediction.
Census estimates describe Suffolk County this way: median household income is about $130,686, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Federal data list 343 public schools in Suffolk County, with a combined enrollment of about 222,439.
The next-closest public school is DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.1 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL. Among its closest neighbors with test data, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL is 1st of 8 on proficiency.
CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 1,503 in 2020-21 and 1,467 in 2024-25.
The discussion area below is open to posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,553 students
- SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,080 students
- DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 967 students
- NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 771 students
- UNITY DRIVE KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTERElementary · 478 students
- BICYCLE PATH KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTERElementary · 449 students
Other schools in CENTEREACH
- SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,080 students
- DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 967 students
- UNITY DRIVE KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTERElementary · 478 students
- JERICHO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCombined · 423 students
- NORTH COLEMAN ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 399 students
- HOLBROOK ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 396 students
Nearby schools
- DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 967
- OXHEAD ROAD SCHOOL0.6 mi · 383
- UNITY DRIVE KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTER0.7 mi · 478
- NORTH COLEMAN ROAD SCHOOL1.1 mi · 399
- JERICHO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 423
- SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 1,080
Frequently asked questions
About CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL?
CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,467 students in grades 08-12.
What age range does CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL serve?
CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 08 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL?
CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 51% White, 32% Hispanic, 6% Black, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL?
CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.