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If you could change one rule at NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, what would it be?
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Enrollment
1,711
High
DISTRICT 1,545 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362652003629
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
500 LEONARD BLVD, NEW HYDE PARK, NY 11040 · (516) 488-9500 · Nassau County
GRADES 07–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,711 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
119 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
385 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. 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
87.6%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.3pp since 2023
Math
85.7%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 88 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 up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
72.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,711
-89 (-5%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 15.1:1
% White
21%
was 34%
% Hispanic
16%
was 15%
% Black
3%
was 5%
% Asian
59%
was 45%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is a high school of sizable scale in NEW HYDE PARK, New York, run under SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 1,711 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 156% above the state mean of about 668.
SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 7,727 students; NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
On the student-mix side, NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL reports that 59% of the student body identifies as Asian; the rest comes out to 21% White, 16% Hispanic, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 119 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 23% of students at NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.7%; this one delivers 72.4%.
Around the school, census data for Nassau County shows median household earnings sit near $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Nassau County runs 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), of which NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: GARDEN CITY PARK SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 77.0%.
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 5%, going from 1,800 students in 2018 to 1,711 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 45% to 59%.
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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 SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,644 students
- SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,572 students
- ELMONT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,492 students
- FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,308 students
Other schools in NEW HYDE PARK
- HERRICKS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,535 students
- DENTON AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 599 students
- NEW HYDE PARK ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 475 students
- HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOLElementary · 446 students
- MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOLElementary · 320 students
- EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERElementary · 304 students
Nearby schools
- GARDEN CITY PARK SCHOOL0.4 mi · 310
- NEW HYDE PARK ROAD SCHOOL0.5 mi · 475
- MANOR OAKS WILLIAM BOWIE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 320
- HILLSIDE GRADE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 446
- DENTON AVENUE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 599
- MINEOLA HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,090
Frequently asked questions
About NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOLHow large is NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL?
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,711 students in grades 07-12.
What age range does NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL serve?
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 07 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.3:1 students per teacher at NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL?
At NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 21% White, 16% Hispanic, 3% Black, 59% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL in?
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is part of SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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