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What's something NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
1,553
High
DISTRICT 1,510 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361920001742
NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
145 MARSHALL DR, SELDEN, NY 11784 · (631) 285-8300 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,553 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
14.9:1
104 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
700 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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 9 | 361 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 379 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 407 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 406 | 26% |
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
87.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
36.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.0% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 90.0% | 26.0% |
% 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
53.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (53.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,553 | 45.1% | 53.3% |
| CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOL CENTEREACH | 1,467 | 43.3% | 56.7% |
| ART AND DESIGN HIGH SCHOOL NEW YORK | 1,485 | 48.5% | 81.0% |
| ROY C KETCHAM SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 1,557 | 39.4% | 58.5% |
| KINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL KINGSTON | 1,749 | 45.4% | 57.3% |
| PINE BUSH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PINE BUSH | 1,562 | 43.0% | 74.0% |
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 NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.3% | #680 of 1,135 | #47 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #795 of 1,109 ▲ 139 | #52 of 57 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #270 of 1,135 ▼ 1 | #28 of 56 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,553 | #89 of 1,216 | #16 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #986 of 1,058 | #56 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.3% | #135 of 1,070 | #6 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.1% | #766 of 1,167 | #17 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.2% | #742 of 743 | #45 of 45 |
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
1,553
+47 (+3%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 1,245
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 13.1:1
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 | 1,553 | 103.9 | 14.9:1 | 45% (700) |
| 2023-24 | 1,542 | 107 | 14.4:1 | 40% (615) |
| 2022-23 | 1,559 | 116 | 13.4:1 | 35% (540) |
| 2020-21 | 1,506 | 115 | 13.1:1 | 22% (324) |
| 2017-18 | 1,556 | 101.5 | 15.3:1 | 31% (484) |
| 2015-16 | 1,515 | 97 | 15.6:1 | 36% (551) |
| 2010-11 | 1,647 | 110 | 15.0:1 | 20% (322) |
| 2000-01 | 1,569 | 104 | 15.1:1 | 11% (179) |
| 1990-91 | 1,245 | 80 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.
About NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL
NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school based in SELDEN, New York. School enrollment was 1,553 students in 2024-25, in grades 9 through 12. For comparison, high schools in New York average about 668 students.
MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 9,410 students in 14 schools, including NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.
At NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL, the largest share of students is White, at 45%. The next largest groups are 33% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 9% Black, and 3% multiracial. The school's White share is 21 points below the 66% share among Suffolk County residents. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal data list 103.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 14.9:1. That is 3.9 students per teacher above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 45%.
allk12 grades NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL a C. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 53.3% actual against 58.4% predicted.
NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL is located in Suffolk County, where the median household income is $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in the county.
The closest public school to NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL is SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Its average proficiency rate of 53.3% is above the 41.1% average for nearby schools.
In the federal locale system, NEWFIELD 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.
Over 4 years, NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment grew 3%, to 1,553. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.1:1 in 2020-21 to 14.9:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CENTEREACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,467 students
- SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,080 students
- DAWNWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 967 students
- NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 771 students
- UNITY DRIVE KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTERElementary · 478 students
- BICYCLE PATH KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTERElementary · 449 students
Other schools in SELDEN
- NEW LANE MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 771 students
- BICYCLE PATH KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTERElementary · 449 students
- HAWKINS PATH SCHOOLElementary · 385 students
- STAGECOACH SCHOOLElementary · 351 students
Nearby schools
- SELDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,080
- NORTH COLEMAN ROAD SCHOOL0.5 mi · 399
- HAWKINS PATH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 385
- JERICHO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 423
- UNITY DRIVE KINDERGARTEN-PRE K CENTER1.3 mi · 478
- STAGECOACH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL?
NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,553 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL serve?
NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 45% White, 33% Hispanic, 9% Black, 10% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL in?
NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL is part of MIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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