ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL

ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL is one of the mid-tier four-year high schools in ROCKY POINT, New York, operated by ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 894 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 668.

ROCKY POINT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,580 students. ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.6%, the actual is 78.2%, a residual of +14.6 points.

In the area at large, Suffolk County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ROCKY POINT MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 56.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROCKY POINT HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 15%, going from 1,053 students in 2018 to 894 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 85% to 71% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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