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Enrollment
1,362
High
DISTRICT 855 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361251001018
GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
341 LAKEVILLE RD, GREAT NECK, NY 11020 · (516) 441-4800 · Nassau County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,362 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% 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
10.8:1
126 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.2:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
363 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 | 332 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 372 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 352 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 303 | 22% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
42%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
94.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
94.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 94.0% | 94.0% |
| 2023-24 | 99.0% | 98.0% |
% 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
96.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+31.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 97% 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 31 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 SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (96.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,362 | 26.7% | 96.5% |
| HERRICKS HIGH SCHOOL NEW HYDE PARK | 1,535 | 23.8% | 88.3% |
| JERICHO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL JERICHO | 1,260 | 19.0% | 94.5% |
| NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL NEW HYDE PARK | 1,711 | 22.5% | 72.4% |
| STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 3,261 | 50.8% | 100.0% |
| STATEN ISLAND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 1,425 | 56.5% | 100.0% |
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 SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 96.5% | #13 of 1,135 | #3 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #21 of 1,109 ▼ 9 | #6 of 57 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #96 of 1,135 ▼ 69 | #18 of 56 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,362 | #125 of 1,216 | #19 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #489 of 1,058 | #22 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.7% | #650 of 1,070 | #48 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.7% | #1,040 of 1,167 | #28 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +11.5% | #129 of 339 | #8 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
1,362
+136 (+11%) vs 2020
+55% since 1990-91, when it was 880
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 10.8:1
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 | 1,362 | 125.6 | 10.8:1 | 27% (363) |
| 2023-24 | 1,322 | 117.6 | 11.2:1 | 23% (303) |
| 2022-23 | 1,262 | 115.4 | 10.9:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 1,226 | 114 | 10.8:1 | 19% (227) |
| 2017-18 | 1,221 | 113.5 | 10.8:1 | 18% (223) |
| 2015-16 | 1,205 | 112 | 10.8:1 | 16% (189) |
| 2010-11 | 1,342 | 117 | 11.5:1 | 7% (99) |
| 2000-01 | 1,074 | 95 | 11.3:1 | 4% (45) |
| 1990-91 | 880 | 84 | 10.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL.
About GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is a high school located in GREAT NECK, New York, in Nassau County. Enrollment stands at 1,362 students, covering grades 9 through 12. The school is 104% larger than the average for high schools in New York.
Besides GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL, GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 9 other schools. The district enrolls 6,798 students.
Asian students are 75% of those enrolled at GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL. Beyond that, enrollment is 13% White, 8% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. In Nassau County overall, about 12% of residents are Asian. A diversity index of 42% means there is a 42% chance two randomly chosen students at GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.8:1. The school has 125.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The school reported 27% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 99% of New York public high schools.
In New York, GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 96.5% compared with a predicted 65.2%.
For Nassau County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $146,202 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. The county has 315 public schools and about 200,775 students.
GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL places 1st of 6 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The school grew from 1,226 students in 2020-21 to 1,362 in 2024-25.
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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 NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,155 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 NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,155 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 SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 832
- EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER1.3 mi · 304
- LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 772
- MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 320
- PS 186 CASTLEWOOD1.6 mi · 319
- PS 2241.6 mi · 414
Frequently asked questions
About GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL?
GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,362 students in grades 09-12.
Is GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.8:1 students per teacher at GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL?
GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 13% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 75% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL?
GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
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