MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL

MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of sprawling scale in GARDEN CITY PARK, New York, run under MINEOLA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 1,090 students in grades 8 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 63% above the state mean of about 668.

MINEOLA UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,811 students; MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 38% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 2% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL has 105 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.1%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Nassau County put the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL is one.

MINEOLA MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 75.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 1,076 (now 1,090). White enrollment moved from 59% to 44% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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