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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
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of New York public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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
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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 250 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 252 | 15% |
| Grade 9 | 258 | 15% |
| Grade 10 | 263 | 15% |
| Grade 11 | 314 | 18% |
| Grade 12 | 298 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 76 | 4% |
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
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.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.6% | 85.7% |
| 2023-24 | 85.3% | 89.7% |
% 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
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 →
Schools most like NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (72.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,711 | 22.5% | 72.4% |
| SYOSSET SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SYOSSET | 2,400 | 17.6% | 92.8% |
| JERICHO SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL JERICHO | 1,260 | 19.0% | 94.5% |
| HERRICKS HIGH SCHOOL NEW HYDE PARK | 1,535 | 23.8% | 88.3% |
| GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL GREAT NECK | 1,362 | 26.7% | 96.5% |
| BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE) BRONX | 2,953 | 50.4% | 99.8% |
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 NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #298 of 1,135 | #35 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.7% | #86 of 1,109 ▲ 19 | #17 of 57 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.6% | #254 of 1,135 ▲ 111 | #33 of 56 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,711 | #69 of 1,216 | #7 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #953 of 1,058 | #55 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.5% | #278 of 1,070 | #22 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.5% | #1,076 of 1,167 | #34 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.9% | #607 of 743 | #24 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
1,711
-127 (-7%) vs 2020
+49% since 1990-91, when it was 1,147
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 1,711 | 119.4 | 14.3:1 | 23% (385) |
| 2023-24 | 1,738 | 126 | 13.8:1 | 21% (371) |
| 2022-23 | 1,727 | 126.8 | 13.6:1 | 23% (391) |
| 2020-21 | 1,838 | 134 | 13.7:1 | 17% (312) |
| 2017-18 | 1,800 | 119.6 | 15.1:1 | 20% (365) |
| 2015-16 | 1,693 | 109 | 15.5:1 | 18% (300) |
| 2010-11 | 1,764 | 118 | 14.9:1 | 12% (210) |
| 2000-01 | 1,413 | 85 | 16.6:1 | 5% (75) |
| 1990-91 | 1,147 | 82 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL.
About NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, located in NEW HYDE PARK, New York, is a high-enrollment high school. The school's enrollment of 1,711 students covers grades 7 through 12. Statewide, high schools in New York average about 668 students each.
SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL. It runs 5 schools with 7,727 students.
Asian students are the majority at NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, with 59% of enrollment. After that, the student body is 21% White, 16% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Among all residents of Nassau County, the Asian share is about 12%. Pick two students at random and there is a 58% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 14.3:1 comes from the school's 119.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 3.3 students per teacher above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 23% in 2024-25. Compared with the 31% average for public schools in Nassau County, the school's rate is lower.
NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 66% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 66.7% for NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL. The school posts 72.4%, 5.7 points above the prediction.
Federal survey data for Nassau County show that the median household income is $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 315 public schools in Nassau County, enrolling about 200,775 students in all.
Of nearby public schools, GARDEN CITY PARK SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.4 miles. NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 77.0%, higher than NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL's 72.4%.
In the federal locale system, NEW HYDE PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 127 students since 2020-21, to 1,711.
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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.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.