PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL

PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL operates as a small secondary school in SAG HARBOR, New York, run under SAG HARBOR UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 501 students spanning grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 25% leaner than typical.

SAG HARBOR UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 932 students; PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL records that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest looks like 25% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL records 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.8:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

After controlling for student poverty, PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.9%, the actual is 70.5%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) logs that median household earnings sit near $130,686, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SAG HARBOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 501). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 20% to 25% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.0:1 in 2018 to 6.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.