CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 14 43RD ST, in CENTEREACH, New York, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL is a sizable high school that caters to 1,467 students (grades 8 through 12), part of MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 120% bigger than typical.

Within MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 14 schools and 9,410 students, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the income-and-resources front, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL lists 107 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.1%, the actual is 56.7%, a residual of -2.4 points.

Across the wider county, Suffolk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

Nearest neighbor: DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 1,574 students in 2018 compared to 1,467 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 72% to 51% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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