ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

As a substantial high school in ELMONT, New York, ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL instructs 1,492 students from grades 7 through 12, operated by SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL sits 123% above that benchmark.

Within SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 7,727 students, ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL shows that 59% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Hispanic, 17% Asian. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

In terms of school funding signals, ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL shows 113 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.8%, the actual is 54.9%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Nassau County shows median household earnings sit near $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: GOTHAM AVENUE SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.1%.

ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 1,676 students in 2018 compared to 1,492 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 74% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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