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Enrollment
814
High
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362592003557
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
20 BROOK ST, WEST SAYVILLE, NY 11796 · (631) 244-6600 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL814 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 93% 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.
- 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
11.2:1
73 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
111 students
DISTRICT 12% · 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 | 183 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 211 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 197 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 212 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 11 | 1% |
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · 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 SAYVILLE 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
97.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
80.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 97 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 97.0% | 80.0% |
| 2023-24 | 95.0% | 94.0% |
% 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
91.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 70% 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 22 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 SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (91.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL this school | 814 | 13.6% | 91.8% |
| WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WANTAGH | 826 | 10.8% | 87.3% |
| KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL KINGS PARK | 823 | 14.3% | 86.3% |
| SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LINCOLNDALE | 847 | 13.7% | 93.3% |
| SEAFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SEAFORD | 650 | 14.6% | 71.7% |
| PLAINEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MASSAPEQUA | 856 | 16.5% | 84.3% |
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 SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 91.8% | #46 of 1,135 | #5 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.0% | #145 of 1,109 ▼ 87 | #12 of 57 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 97.0% | #43 of 1,135 ▲ 84 | #4 of 56 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 814 | #315 of 1,216 | #42 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #553 of 1,058 | #24 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.8% | #818 of 1,070 | #55 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.6% | #1,138 of 1,167 | #54 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.5% | #221 of 743 | #15 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
814
-154 (-16%) vs 2020
+13% since 1990-91, when it was 719
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.1:1
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 | 814 | 72.8 | 11.2:1 | 14% (111) |
| 2023-24 | 850 | 81 | 10.5:1 | 13% (109) |
| 2022-23 | 880 | 82.7 | 10.6:1 | 12% (105) |
| 2020-21 | 968 | 80 | 12.1:1 | 10% (97) |
| 2017-18 | 987 | 79.6 | 12.4:1 | 10% (94) |
| 2015-16 | 970 | 77 | 12.6:1 | 12% (117) |
| 2010-11 | 1,100 | 85 | 12.9:1 | 7% (72) |
| 2000-01 | 977 | 84 | 11.6:1 | 5% (49) |
| 1990-91 | 719 | 56 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
About SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is a mid-sized high school for students in WEST SAYVILLE, New York. Enrollment stands at 814 students, covering grades 9 through 12. The school is 22% above the average for high schools in New York.
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is part of SAYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, where 5 schools serve 2,586 students.
A large majority of enrollment at SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is White, at 85%. Other reported shares: 8% Hispanic, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. Suffolk County's residents are about 66% White, 19 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL scores 27%.
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL lists 72.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 11.2 students per teacher. That is in line with the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. About 14% of students at SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County.
SAYVILLE 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 93% of New York public high schools.
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is a top-10% school in New York on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results of 70.0% with an actual 91.8%.
American Community Survey estimates for Suffolk County show that the median household earns about $130,686 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Suffolk County has 343 public schools with about 222,439 students, including SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
Measured in a straight line, CHERRY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is about 0.3 miles from SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 68.6%, lower than SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL's 91.8%.
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.
The school's student count fell 16% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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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 SAYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SAYVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 582 students
- LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 428 students
- SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 388 students
- CHERRY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 374 students
Other schools in WEST SAYVILLE
- CHERRY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 374 students
Nearby schools
- CHERRY AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.3 mi · 374
- EDWARD J BOSTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 269
- LINCOLN AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 428
- SAYVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 582
- ACADEMY STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 317
- SUNRISE DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 388
Frequently asked questions
About SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHow large is SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL?
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 814 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
How many students per teacher at SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL?
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 85% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL?
SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by SAYVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.