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Enrollment
894
High
DISTRICT 645 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362484003437
ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL
82 ROCKY PT-YAPHANK RD, ROCKY POINT, NY 11778 · (631) 849-7505 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL894 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of New York public high schools
- A-Test 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
12.3:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
278 students
DISTRICT 30% · 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 | 234 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 209 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 191 | 21% |
| Grade 12 | 251 | 28% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 1% |
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · 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 ROCKY POINT 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
90.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -4.0pp since 2023
Math
71.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90.0% | 71.0% |
| 2023-24 | 94.0% | 77.0% |
% 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
78.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL
ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (78.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL this school | 894 | 31.1% | 78.2% |
| GOSHEN CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL GOSHEN | 983 | 32.5% | 76.7% |
| MINISINK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MIDDLETOWN | 1,116 | 27.7% | 69.7% |
| EAST ISLIP HIGH SCHOOL ISLIP TERRACE | 1,170 | 26.4% | 83.7% |
| IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 1,160 | 30.7% | 72.0% |
| LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL SHRUB OAK | 966 | 25.9% | 86.8% |
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 ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.2% | #209 of 1,135 | #23 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.0% | #246 of 1,109 ▲ 22 | #21 of 57 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #188 of 1,135 ▼ 27 | #22 of 56 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 894 | #276 of 1,216 | #38 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #743 of 1,058 | #41 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.3% | #611 of 1,070 | #38 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.1% | #979 of 1,167 | #26 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.1% | #287 of 743 | #19 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
894
-62 (-6%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 1,124
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 894 | 72.7 | 12.3:1 | 31% (278) |
| 2023-24 | 905 | 74.5 | 12.2:1 | 32% (289) |
| 2022-23 | 923 | 71.7 | 12.9:1 | 32% (292) |
| 2020-21 | 956 | 67 | 14.3:1 | 29% (282) |
| 2017-18 | 1,053 | 67 | 15.7:1 | 31% (323) |
| 2015-16 | 1,070 | 66 | 16.2:1 | 24% (254) |
| 2010-11 | 1,016 | 62 | 16.4:1 | 16% (163) |
| 2000-01 | 1,367 | 91 | 15.0:1 | 6% (84) |
| 1990-91 | 1,124 | 88 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL.
About ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL
Located in ROCKY POINT, New York, ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL is a mid-sized high school. The school has 894 students in 2024-25 across grades 9 through 12. High schools in New York average about 668 students, which makes this school 34% above average.
Across its 4 schools, ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 2,580 students. ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL is one of those schools.
Federal enrollment data show ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL is 71% White. The next largest groups are 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 2% Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 44%.
There are 72.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 12.3:1. The school's 12.3:1 compares with an average of 11.0:1 for high schools in New York. By family income, 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 8 points below the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County.
ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 80% of New York public high schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL is 14.6 points above its prediction. Actual: 78.2%. Predicted: 63.6%.
Suffolk County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL shares Suffolk County with 342 other public schools.
ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.
A 6% decline took enrollment from 956 in 2020-21 to 894 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 14.3:1 in 2020-21 to 12.3:1 in 2024-25.
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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 ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 613 students
- JOSEPH A EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- FRANK J CARASITI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 531 students
Other schools in ROCKY POINT
- ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 613 students
- JOSEPH A EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 542 students
- FRANK J CARASITI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 531 students
Nearby schools
- ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 613
- FRANK J CARASITI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 531
- JOSEPH A EDGAR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 542
- ALBERT G PRODELL MIDDLE SCHOOL2.2 mi · 457
- MILLER PLACE HIGH SCHOOL2.6 mi · 764
- MILLER AVENUE SCHOOL2.7 mi · 408
Frequently asked questions
About ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOLHow large is ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL?
ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 894 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL serve?
ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 12.3:1 students per teacher at ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL?
ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 71% White, 21% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL?
ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.