ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL

ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of moderately sized scale in ISLIP, New York, one of the schools within ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 890 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.

Within ISLIP UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,652 students, ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL lists that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.1%; this one delivers 65.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

The closest other public school is ISLIP MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL has fell 10%, going from 993 students in 2018 to 890 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 47% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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