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Enrollment
1,155
High
DISTRICT 855 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361251001016
GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL
35 POLO RD, GREAT NECK, NY 11023 · (516) 441-4700 · Nassau County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,155 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 97% 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.
- A+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
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
131 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.2:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
309 students
DISTRICT 24% · 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
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 252 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 270 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 278 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 332 | 29% |
| Ungraded | 23 | 2% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 72% · US 70%
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
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
85.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -6.0pp 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 85 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 down about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 91.0% | 85.0% |
| 2023-24 | 94.0% | 91.0% |
% 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 · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in New York's top 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 GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL
GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (92.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,155 | 26.8% | 92.3% |
| NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 1,379 | 21.7% | 81.7% |
| VESTAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL VESTAL | 1,015 | 30.8% | 86.5% |
| BETHPAGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BETHPAGE | 995 | 28.3% | 92.0% |
| GUILDERLAND HIGH SCHOOL GUILDERLAND CENTER | 1,476 | 28.3% | 76.2% |
| WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 1,307 | 27.8% | 90.0% |
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 GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.3% | #38 of 1,135 | #7 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #90 of 1,109 ▼ 1 | #18 of 57 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #154 of 1,135 ▼ 5 | #25 of 56 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,155 | #190 of 1,216 | #28 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.8:1 | #127 of 1,058 | #6 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.9% | #471 of 1,070 | #37 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.8% | #1,038 of 1,167 | #27 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.9% | #295 of 339 | #19 of 23 |
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 2024-25Enrollment
1,155
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 909
Student : Teacher
8.8:1
was 9.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,155 | 130.6 | 8.8:1 | 27% (309) |
| 2023-24 | 1,163 | 130.5 | 8.9:1 | 23% (272) |
| 2022-23 | 1,176 | 127.8 | 9.2:1 | 24% (283) |
| 2020-21 | 1,162 | 119 | 9.8:1 | 19% (226) |
| 2017-18 | 1,134 | 101.2 | 11.2:1 | 17% (193) |
| 2015-16 | 1,115 | 100 | 11.2:1 | 16% (175) |
| 2010-11 | 971 | 92 | 10.6:1 | 7% (72) |
| 2000-01 | 934 | 82 | 11.4:1 | 10% (92) |
| 1990-91 | 909 | 92 | 9.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL.
About GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL
GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL is a high school in GREAT NECK, New York, and it is part of GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Federal data show 1,155 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
The GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 10 schools and 6,798 students.
About 66% of the student body at GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL is White. The remaining students are 22% Asian and 10% Hispanic. Among people living in Nassau County, the White share is about 57%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL has 130.6 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.8:1. The school's 8.8:1 compares with an average of 11.0:1 for high schools in New York. The school has 27% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 97% of New York public high schools.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% in New York. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 92.3%, against a prediction of 65.2%.
Census data for Nassau County show the median household earns about $146,202 a year, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, Nassau County has 315 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.3 miles from GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL. The five-mile area around GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 83.7%, lower than GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL's 92.3%.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 1,162 to 1,155, a small change.
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Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 832 students
- LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 772 students
- GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 728 students
- E M BAKER SCHOOLElementary · 651 students
- SADDLE ROCK SCHOOLElementary · 519 students
Other schools in GREAT NECK
- GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 832 students
- LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 772 students
- GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 728 students
- E M BAKER SCHOOLElementary · 651 students
- SADDLE ROCK SCHOOLElementary · 519 students
Nearby schools
- GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 728
- VILLAGE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 48
- SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL0.6 mi · 519
- E M BAKER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 651
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 427
- MANHASSET SECONDARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,031
Frequently asked questions
About GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHow large is GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL?
GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,155 students in grades 09-12.
Is GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 8.8:1 (131 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL?
At GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 66% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 22% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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