KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL

As a medium-sized high school in KINGS PARK, New York, KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL enrolls 823 students from grades 9 through 12, part of KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 23% above the state mean of about 668.

Within KINGS PARK CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,656 students, KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL reports that White students make up the majority at 80%. The remainder consists of 14% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 84 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. Roughly 14% of students at KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.7%; this one delivers 86.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) logs that median household earnings sit near $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PARKVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 69.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 1,131 (now 823). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 90% to 80%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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