FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

As a sizable secondary school in FLORAL PARK, New York, FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL hosts 1,308 students from grades 7 through 12, part of SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL sits 96% above that benchmark.

SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 7,727 students; FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL lists that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 24% Hispanic, 21% Asian, 10% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 101 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.9:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.5%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Nassau County) logs that median household income runs about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is one.

FLORAL PARK-BELLEROSE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 1,446 students in 2018 compared to 1,308 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.