LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a medium-sized senior high in CEDARHURST, New York, operated by LAWRENCE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 764 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Across the 5 schools in LAWRENCE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,156 students total), LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 16% Black, 8% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.1%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -9.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Nassau County put median household income runs about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

The closest other public school is LAWRENCE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER AT #4 SCHOOL, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAWRENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has fell 19%, going from 940 students in 2018 to 764 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 55% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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