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HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 67% 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 21 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL
Set in HAUPPAUGE, New York, HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL is an expansive 9-12 campus, overseen by HAUPPAUGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 1,038 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 55% bigger than the state mean of about 668.
Within HAUPPAUGE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 3,112 students, HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
Demographically, HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL logs that 63% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Suffolk County as a whole.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 67.5%; this one delivers 88.8%, a residual of +21.4 points.
In the area at large, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: HAUPPAUGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL has fell 14%, going from 1,209 students in 2018 to 1,038 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.
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