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Enrollment
1,219
High
DISTRICT 1,092 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361902001721
SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL
1786 STATE ST, MERRICK, NY 11566 · (516) 992-1300 · Nassau County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,219 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% 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.
- ABeats 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
9.8:1
124 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
248 students
DISTRICT 17% · 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 | 306 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 291 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 296 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 299 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 27 | 2% |
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
95.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
79.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -7.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 95.0% | 79.0% |
| 2023-24 | 95.0% | 86.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
88.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in New York's top 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 SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL
SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (88.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,219 | 20.3% | 88.2% |
| SMITHTOWN HIGH SCHOOL-WEST SMITHTOWN | 1,158 | 16.7% | 87.8% |
| WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL BELLMORE | 1,211 | 18.9% | 89.7% |
| HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL HAUPPAUGE | 1,038 | 20.4% | 88.8% |
| YORKTOWN HIGH SCHOOL YORKTOWN HEIGHTS | 1,105 | 15.7% | 92.3% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL BELLMORE | 1,089 | 16.3% | 87.7% |
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 SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 88.2% | #82 of 1,135 | #16 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.0% | #155 of 1,109 ▼ 17 | #29 of 57 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 95.0% | #79 of 1,135 ▲ 42 | #15 of 56 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,219 | #168 of 1,216 | #26 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #273 of 1,058 | #10 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.3% | #573 of 1,070 | #44 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.3% | #1,093 of 1,167 | #37 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.3% | #625 of 743 | #27 of 34 |
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
1,219
+10 (+1%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 1,069
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 9.9:1
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 | 1,219 | 124.1 | 9.8:1 | 20% (248) |
| 2023-24 | 1,217 | 124.8 | 9.8:1 | 18% (225) |
| 2022-23 | 1,168 | 122.7 | 9.5:1 | 15% (171) |
| 2020-21 | 1,209 | 122 | 9.9:1 | 14% (166) |
| 2017-18 | 1,274 | 96 | 13.3:1 | 11% (142) |
| 2015-16 | 1,276 | 100 | 12.8:1 | 10% (129) |
| 2010-11 | 1,438 | 105 | 13.7:1 | 4% (64) |
| 2000-01 | 1,190 | 72 | 16.5:1 | 1% (10) |
| 1990-91 | 1,069 | 72 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL.
About SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL
Among the schools in MERRICK, New York, is SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL, a high-enrollment high school. It is open to students in grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,219 students. By comparison, high schools in New York enroll about 668 students on average.
BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 5,283 students in 5 schools, including SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL.
The share of White students at SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL is 71%, a majority. Other students are 15% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 4% Black. That is higher than the 57% White share among all Nassau County residents. A diversity index of 46% means there is a 46% chance two randomly chosen students at SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL are from different groups.
SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL lists 124.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 9.8 students per teacher. Across high schools in New York, the average ratio is 11.0:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 20% of the student body. The gap from the 31% average for public schools in Nassau County is 11 points.
On the allk12 Grade, SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 91% of New York public high schools.
SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL outperforms its prediction by 20.7 points. The model expects 67.5% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in New York; the school's rate is 88.2%.
For Nassau County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $146,202 a year, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Public schools in Nassau County number 315, with about 200,775 students.
CAMP AVENUE SCHOOL is the nearest public school to SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Within five miles of SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL enrolled 1,209; in 2024-25, 1,219.
The allk12 page for SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,211 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,089 students
- GRAND AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 916 students
- MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOLHigh · 848 students
Other schools in MERRICK
- MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOLHigh · 848 students
- NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOLElementary · 644 students
- BIRCH SCHOOLElementary · 588 students
- CAMP AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
- OLD MILL ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 461 students
- CHATTERTON SCHOOLElementary · 451 students
Nearby schools
- CAMP AVENUE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 491
- MERRICK AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 848
- CHATTERTON SCHOOL0.8 mi · 451
- OLD MILL ROAD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 461
- ULYSSES BYAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 457
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 324
Frequently asked questions
About SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL?
SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,219 students in grades 09-12.
Is SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL have?
SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL employs 124 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.8:1.
What is the student diversity at SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 71% White, 15% Hispanic, 4% Black, 8% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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