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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