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SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361578001363

COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL

565 BICYCLE PATH, PORT JEFFERSON STA, NY 11776 · (631) 474-8182 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,160 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of New York public high schools
  • A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
  • B+Beats 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

Enrollment
1,160
High
DISTRICT 575 · STATE 668
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
92 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
324 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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

GradeStudentsShare
Grade 928124%
Grade 1027824%
Grade 1129525%
Grade 1229325%
Ungraded131%
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 72% · US 70%
White
60252%
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 39% · US 43%
Hispanic
42437%
DISTRICT 38% · STATE 31% · US 30%
Black
666%
DISTRICT 5% · STATE 16% · US 15%
Asian
424%
DISTRICT 3% · STATE 10% · US 6%
Two+
242%
DISTRICT 3% · STATE 4% · US 5%
Native American
20%
DISTRICT 0% · STATE 1% · US 1%
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
Male
56949%
Female
59151%

School pathway

Feeds from
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL06–08
Based on grade levels within BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.

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Test scores

NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)
English Language Arts
91.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
64.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023

What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 2 points.

NYS Assessments results by year

School yearEnglish Language ArtsMath
2024-2591.0%64.0%
2023-2494.0%62.0%
% 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 · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
76.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.8pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 77% 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 COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL

COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (76.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.

SchoolStudentsLow-incomeProficient
COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL this school1,16027.9%76.5%
LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOL
LONG BEACH
1,25331.8%72.5%
WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WEST BABYLON
1,22828.5%68.5%
MINISINK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
MIDDLETOWN
1,11627.7%69.7%
EAST ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL
ISLIP TERRACE
1,17026.4%83.7%
LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL
SHRUB OAK
96625.9%86.8%
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 COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL ranks

Among high schools
MeasureThis schoolIn New YorkIn Suffolk County
State test proficiency
ranked highest first
76.5%#233 of 1,135#26 of 57
Math proficiency
ranked highest first
64.0%#370 of 1,109
▲ 110
#26 of 57
▲ 13
Reading proficiency
ranked highest first
91.0%#157 of 1,135
▼ 4
#20 of 56
▼ 2
Enrollment
ranked largest first
1,160#188 of 1,216#30 of 59
Students per teacher
ranked fewest first
12.5:1#779 of 1,058#45 of 57
Diversity index
ranked most diverse first
59.2%#265 of 1,070#15 of 57
Free and reduced lunch
ranked highest share first
27.9%#1,012 of 1,167#31 of 57
Enrollment change since 2017-18
ranked steepest decline first
-8.9%#463 of 743#29 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 2024-25
Enrollment
1,160
-18 (-2%) vs 2020
+6% since 1990-91, when it was 1,092
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Enrollment and staffing by year

School yearStudentsTeachers (FTE)Students per teacherFree and reduced lunch
2024-251,16092.512.5:128% (324)
2023-241,14290.512.6:127% (307)
2022-231,15390.912.7:130% (347)
2020-211,1788214.4:124% (282)
2017-181,27477.816.4:129% (373)
2015-161,1857915.0:126% (305)
2010-111,3298815.1:111% (152)
2000-011,0136415.8:111% (107)
1990-911,0927315.0:1N/A
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL.

About COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL

COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL is classified as a high school. It is located in PORT JEFFERSON STA, New York. Students in grades 9 through 12 attend, and enrollment is 1,160 students. The school's enrollment is 74% above the 668 average for high schools in New York.

BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL. It runs 6 schools with 3,448 students.

COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL is 52% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 37% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, and 2% multiracial. That compares with about 66% White among all Suffolk County residents. The school's diversity index is 59%, meaning two students picked at random have a 59% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The school reports 92.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 12.5 students per teacher. The school has more students per teacher than the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 28%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Suffolk County is 39%.

allk12 grades COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL an A-. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.

COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 76.5%, compared with a predicted 64.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.

Within Suffolk County, the median household income is $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Besides COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL, Suffolk County has 342 other public schools.

The school nearest to COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL is CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st in a group of 7 nearby schools.

Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.

Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 1,178 in 2020-21, 1,160 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.5:1.

Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.

Suffolk County at a glance

View full county profile
Population
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

School name
COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL
District
BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
Address
565 BICYCLE PATH, PORT JEFFERSON STA, NY 11776
Phone
(631) 474-8182
County
Suffolk County
Level
High
Grade range
09–12
Total enrollment
1,160
Teachers (FTE)
92
Student–teacher ratio
12.5:1
Free and reduced lunch
324 (28%)
Locale
21-Suburb: Large
NCES ID
361578001363
Charter school
No
Virtual school
No

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Frequently asked questions

About COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL
How many students attend COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL?
COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,160 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL serve?
COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL have?
COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL employs 92 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
How diverse is COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL?
COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 52% White, 37% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL?
COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
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