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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