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LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)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 89 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 have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% 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 24 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
As a reasonably sized senior high in LYNBROOK, New York, LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL caters to 846 students from grades 9 through 12, run under LYNBROOK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 668.
Across the 7 schools in LYNBROOK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,725 students total), LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school shows 20% Hispanic, 8% Black, 7% Asian, 2% multiracial.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Nassau County runs at roughly 31%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 68.0%; LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL posts 92.0%, +24.0 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Nassau County put median household earnings sit near $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
KINDERGARTEN CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 64.8%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 891 (now 846). The White share of enrollment contracted from 73% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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