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Enrollment
583
High
DISTRICT 299 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361770001592
LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
99 HORSE HOLLOW RD, LOCUST VALLEY, NY 11560 · (516) 277-5100 · Nassau County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 92% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
7.3:1
79 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.2:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
159 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 124 | 21% |
| Grade 10 | 170 | 29% |
| Grade 11 | 118 | 20% |
| Grade 12 | 161 | 28% |
| Ungraded | 10 | 2% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
94.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
86.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 94.0% | 86.0% |
| 2023-24 | 95.0% | 91.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
88.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% 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 23 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (88.2% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 583 | 27.3% | 88.2% |
| PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL SAG HARBOR | 501 | 27.5% | 70.5% |
| CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL CENTER MORICHES | 511 | 28.4% | 71.7% |
| NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL NORTH SALEM | 492 | 22.8% | 71.7% |
| MATTITUCK JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MATTITUCK | 524 | 27.5% | 68.5% |
| NEW PALTZ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NEW PALTZ | 622 | 26.8% | 81.0% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.2% | #80 of 1,135 | #15 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #85 of 1,109 ▲ 5 | #16 of 57 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #99 of 1,135 ▲ 19 | #19 of 56 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #455 of 1,216 | #54 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.3:1 | #27 of 1,058 | #1 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.7% | #518 of 1,070 | #39 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.3% | #1,026 of 1,167 | #25 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.6% | #275 of 743 | #5 of 34 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
583
-73 (-11%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 868
Student : Teacher
7.3:1
was 6.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 583 | 79.4 | 7.3:1 | 27% (159) |
| 2023-24 | 613 | 71.7 | 8.6:1 | 25% (156) |
| 2022-23 | 629 | 70.7 | 8.9:1 | 22% (137) |
| 2020-21 | 656 | 110 | 6.0:1 | 22% (144) |
| 2017-18 | 691 | 49 | 14.1:1 | 20% (135) |
| 2015-16 | 690 | 50 | 13.8:1 | 14% (99) |
| 2010-11 | 671 | 55 | 12.2:1 | 7% (50) |
| 2000-01 | 560 | 51 | 11.0:1 | 2% (13) |
| 1990-91 | 868 | 89 | 9.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL.
About LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school. Its address is in LOCUST VALLEY, New York. Its 583 students are spread across grades 9 through 12.
LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (6 schools, 1,794 students) runs LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL.
LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment is 66% White. Other groups include 26% Hispanic and 5% Asian. By comparison, Nassau County residents are about 57% White. By the diversity index, LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL comes in at 49%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 7.3:1, with 79.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. The 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. Lunch subsidy eligibility at LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is 27%.
Measured against New York public high schools, LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL does better than predicted by 23.2 points. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 88.2%; the prediction is 65.0%.
LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is located in Nassau County, where median household income is about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 315 public schools in Nassau County, with a combined enrollment of about 200,775.
Nearest public school: LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is 1st of 6 nearby schools with test data.
LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment was 656 in 2020-21 and 583 in 2024-25, a decrease of 73 students. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (7.3:1) than in 2020-21 (6.0:1).
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Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 427 students
- LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 227 students
- ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARYElementary · 211 students
- BAYVILLE PRIMARYElementary · 179 students
- BAYVILLE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 167 students
Other schools in LOCUST VALLEY
- LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 427 students
- LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 227 students
- ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARYElementary · 211 students
Nearby schools
- LOCUST VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 427
- LOCUST VALLEY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 227
- ANN MACARTHUR PRIMARY0.4 mi · 211
- GRIBBIN SCHOOL1.7 mi · 334
- BAYVILLE PRIMARY1.8 mi · 179
- GLEN COVE HIGH SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,060
Frequently asked questions
About LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL?
LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 583 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 7.3:1 (79 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 66% White, 26% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL in?
LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL is part of LOCUST VALLEY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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