EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL

Set in PORT JEFFERSON, New York, EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL is an intimate secondary school, overseen by PORT JEFFERSON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 313 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL sits 53% below that benchmark.

PORT JEFFERSON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 907 students; EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 76%; the rest consists of 12% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.9:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 15% of students at EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 69.5%; this one delivers 91.2%, a residual of +21.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Suffolk County runs 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), of which EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PORT JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. EARL L VANDERMEULEN HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 383 (now 313). The White share of enrollment shrank from 85% to 76% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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