LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL

LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is a roomy secondary school in MIDDLE ISLAND, New York, part of LONGWOOD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 2,993 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 348% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

LONGWOOD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 8,787 students; LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 31% Hispanic, 20% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 220 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of +4.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) records 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), LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LONGWOOD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 2,841 (now 2,993). White enrollment moved from 48% to 40% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.