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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
1,476
High
DISTRICT 613 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHPORT-EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362127003033
NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
154 LAUREL HILL RD, NORTHPORT, NY 11768 · (631) 262-6652 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,476 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 90% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
10.7:1
138 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
246 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 | 334 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 357 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 361 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 413 | 28% |
| Ungraded | 11 | 1% |
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 38% · 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
Based on grade levels within NORTHPORT-EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE 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
94.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 94.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 95.0% | 83.0% |
% 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
87.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (87.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,476 | 16.7% | 87.8% |
| WEST ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WEST ISLIP | 1,163 | 20.2% | 79.3% |
| WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL WARWICK | 1,314 | 20.7% | 74.8% |
| SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL-WEST SMITHTOWN | 1,158 | 16.7% | 87.8% |
| CLARENCE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL CLARENCE | 1,256 | 18.6% | 93.0% |
| MASSAPEQUA HIGH SCHOOL MASSAPEQUA | 1,407 | 12.2% | 74.3% |
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 NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.8% | #90 of 1,135 | #10 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #128 of 1,109 ▲ 47 | #11 of 57 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 94.0% | #103 of 1,135 ▲ 20 | #14 of 56 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,476 | #102 of 1,216 | #17 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #454 of 1,058 | #19 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.7% | #711 of 1,070 | #46 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.7% | #1,115 of 1,167 | #47 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -25.3% | #119 of 743 | #3 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
1,476
-288 (-16%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 1,768
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 1,476 | 138 | 10.7:1 | 17% (246) |
| 2023-24 | 1,537 | 147.8 | 10.4:1 | 15% (232) |
| 2022-23 | 1,645 | 152.2 | 10.8:1 | 18% (288) |
| 2020-21 | 1,764 | 162 | 10.9:1 | 17% (298) |
| 2017-18 | 1,977 | 156.7 | 12.6:1 | 13% (254) |
| 2015-16 | 2,014 | 131 | 15.4:1 | 11% (230) |
| 2010-11 | 2,120 | 173 | 12.3:1 | 4% (80) |
| 2000-01 | 1,609 | 140 | 11.5:1 | 6% (90) |
| 1990-91 | 1,768 | 137 | 12.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
The public high school NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is located in NORTHPORT, New York. School enrollment was 1,476 students in 2024-25, in grades 9 through 12. For comparison, high schools in New York average about 668 students.
NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 7 schools in NORTHPORT-EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 4,293 students in total.
NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment is 77% White. Next come 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. That compares with about 66% White among all Suffolk County residents. By the diversity index, NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes in at 38%.
The school reports 138 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 10.7 students per teacher. Across high schools in New York, the average ratio is about 11.0:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 17%. Compared with the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County, the school's rate is lower.
allk12 grades NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 87.8% actual against 68.9% predicted.
Census Bureau estimates for Suffolk County show that median household income is about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 343 public schools operate in Suffolk County, serving about 222,439 students.
The school nearest to NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is PULASKI ROAD SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.3 miles. Within five miles of NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd of 9 on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL went from 1,764 students to 1,476.
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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 NORTHPORT-EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOLElementary · 694 students
- EAST NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 633 students
- NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 416 students
- FIFTH AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 377 students
- PULASKI ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 351 students
- OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 346 students
Other schools in NORTHPORT
- NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOLElementary · 694 students
- NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 416 students
- FORT SALONGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 381 students
- OCEAN AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 346 students
Nearby schools
- PULASKI ROAD SCHOOL0.3 mi · 351
- THOMAS J LAHEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 602
- HARBORFIELDS HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 923
- EAST NORTHPORT MIDDLE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 633
- ELWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL1.6 mi · 425
- ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL1.7 mi · 677
Frequently asked questions
About NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,476 students in grades 09-12.
Is NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.7:1 students per teacher at NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
At NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 77% White, 15% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
NORTHPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NORTHPORT-EAST NORTHPORT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.