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Enrollment
1,644
High
DISTRICT 1,545 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362652003628
H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL
230 POPPY AVE, FRANKLIN SQUARE, NY 11010 · (516) 539-9400 · Nassau County
GRADES 07–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,644 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of New York public high schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
14.6:1
113 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
337 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 7 | 274 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 261 | 16% |
| Grade 9 | 280 | 17% |
| Grade 10 | 271 | 16% |
| Grade 11 | 233 | 14% |
| Grade 12 | 311 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 14 | 1% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
74.6%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.6pp since 2023
Math
84.2%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.6% | 84.2% |
| 2023-24 | 79.2% | 89.5% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL
H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (64.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,644 | 20.5% | 64.7% |
| CLARKSTOWN SOUTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WEST NYACK | 1,386 | 22.8% | 80.8% |
| FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL FLORAL PARK | 1,308 | 23.1% | 67.5% |
| CLARKSTOWN NORTH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NEW CITY | 1,209 | 27.0% | 78.2% |
| GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LEVITTOWN | 1,295 | 23.1% | 90.3% |
| NISKAYUNA HIGH SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 1,379 | 21.7% | 81.7% |
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 H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.7% | #445 of 1,135 | #42 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.2% | #97 of 1,109 ▲ 9 | #20 of 57 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.6% | #502 of 1,135 ▼ 18 | #45 of 56 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,644 | #78 of 1,216 | #10 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #967 of 1,058 | #56 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.1% | #194 of 1,070 | #13 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.5% | #1,091 of 1,167 | #36 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #658 of 743 | #31 of 34 |
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
1,644
+37 (+2%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 1,298
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 1,644 | 112.6 | 14.6:1 | 20% (337) |
| 2023-24 | 1,594 | 112.3 | 14.2:1 | 19% (301) |
| 2022-23 | 1,596 | 115.4 | 13.8:1 | 21% (332) |
| 2020-21 | 1,607 | 111 | 14.5:1 | 15% (240) |
| 2017-18 | 1,694 | 95.4 | 17.8:1 | 15% (251) |
| 2015-16 | 1,675 | 98 | 17.1:1 | 14% (229) |
| 2010-11 | 1,877 | 119 | 15.8:1 | 16% (304) |
| 2000-01 | 1,581 | 92 | 17.2:1 | 4% (63) |
| 1990-91 | 1,298 | 94 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL.
About H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL
H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school in SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, located in FRANKLIN SQUARE, New York. It offers grades 7 through 12 and has 1,644 students enrolled. By comparison, high schools in New York enroll about 668 students on average.
SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT has 7,727 students in 5 schools, and H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL is one of those schools.
White students are 51% of those enrolled at H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL. Beyond that, enrollment is 27% Hispanic, 17% Asian, and 3% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 64, compared with 70 nationally.
H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1, with 112.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York, this school's ratio is higher. The school has 20% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Nassau County, the average is 31%.
On the allk12 Grade, H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL lands at B-, ahead of 45% of New York public high schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 67.5% for H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL. The school posts 64.7%, 2.8 points below the prediction.
Nassau County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $146,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 315 public schools in the county, enrolling about 200,775, H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL among them.
WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles from H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 1,607 in 2020-21 and 1,644 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,711 students
- SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,572 students
- ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,492 students
- FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,308 students
Other schools in FRANKLIN SQUARE
- VALLEY STREAM NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,260 students
- WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOLElementary · 782 students
- POLK STREET SCHOOLElementary · 594 students
- JOHN STREET SCHOOLElementary · 483 students
- WILLOW ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 410 students
Nearby schools
- WASHINGTON STREET SCHOOL0.1 mi · 782
- JOHN STREET SCHOOL0.7 mi · 483
- GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL1.0 mi · 340
- STRATFORD AVENUE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 638
- HOMESTEAD SCHOOL1.0 mi · 205
- COVERT AVENUE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 646
Frequently asked questions
About H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOLHow large is H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL?
H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,644 students in grades 07-12.
What grades does H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 07-12.
How many teachers does H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL have?
H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL employs 113 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
What is the student diversity at H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 51% White, 27% Hispanic, 3% Black, 17% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL in?
H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL is part of SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.