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Enrollment
1,572
High
DISTRICT 1,545 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362652003630
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL
500 TULIP AVE, FLORAL PARK, NY 11001 · (516) 488-9600 · Nassau County
GRADES 07–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,572 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
11.5:1
137 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
742 students
DISTRICT 31% · 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 7 | 218 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 227 | 14% |
| Grade 9 | 264 | 17% |
| Grade 10 | 251 | 16% |
| Grade 11 | 293 | 19% |
| Grade 12 | 319 | 20% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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
67.1%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.2pp since 2023
Math
62.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.1% | 62.8% |
| 2023-24 | 70.3% | 65.5% |
% 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
53.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (53.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,572 | 47.2% | 53.1% |
| VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL VALLEY STREAM | 1,229 | 37.6% | 71.3% |
| VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL VALLEY STREAM | 1,121 | 44.1% | 63.5% |
| VALLEY STREAM NORTH HIGH SCHOOL FRANKLIN SQUARE | 1,260 | 36.0% | 56.9% |
| DEER PARK HIGH SCHOOL DEER PARK | 1,326 | 44.6% | 70.7% |
| SCHOLARS' ACADEMY ROCKAWAY PARK | 1,184 | 52.4% | 82.1% |
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 SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #684 of 1,135 | #50 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #387 of 1,109 ▲ 37 | #40 of 57 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.1% | #631 of 1,135 ▲ 7 | #53 of 56 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,572 | #85 of 1,216 | #13 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #616 of 1,058 | #35 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.7% | #59 of 1,070 | #3 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.2% | #730 of 1,167 | #9 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.4% | #649 of 743 | #29 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
1,572
-48 (-3%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 1,254
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 1,572 | 137.1 | 11.5:1 | 47% (742) |
| 2023-24 | 1,622 | 145.8 | 11.1:1 | 47% (765) |
| 2022-23 | 1,637 | 139.3 | 11.8:1 | 50% (816) |
| 2020-21 | 1,620 | 131 | 12.4:1 | 38% (611) |
| 2017-18 | 1,627 | 111.4 | 14.6:1 | 46% (748) |
| 2015-16 | 1,630 | 94 | 17.3:1 | 45% (738) |
| 2010-11 | 1,565 | 111 | 14.1:1 | 27% (415) |
| 2000-01 | 1,497 | 94 | 15.9:1 | 23% (338) |
| 1990-91 | 1,254 | 112 | 11.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL.
About SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL is a large high school serving families in FLORAL PARK, New York. It enrolls 1,572 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 7 through 12. That is 135% above the average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
Enrollment across the 5 schools in SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT totals 7,727 students.
The student body at SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 36%. Enrollment also includes 27% Black, 27% Asian, and 7% White. The school's Hispanic share is 18 points above the 19% share among Nassau County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL is 11.5:1, based on 137.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL counts 47% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Nassau County is 31%.
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL holds a C allk12 Grade, placing it above 30% of New York public high schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 53.1% actual against 57.6% predicted.
For Nassau County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $146,202, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 50%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 315 public schools in the county, enrolling about 200,775, SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL among them.
Measured in a straight line, COVERT AVENUE SCHOOL is about 0.5 miles from SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL. The five-mile area around SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 65.5% proficiency; SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL posts 53.1%.
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
A 3% decline took enrollment from 1,620 in 2020-21 to 1,572 in 2024-25.
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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
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- IRWIN ALTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL 172Middle · 799 students
- JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOLElementary · 674 students
- JAMES J AMBROSE SCHOOL (THE)Elementary · 659 students
- PS 993Combined · 636 students
Nearby schools
- COVERT AVENUE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 646
- STEWART MANOR SCHOOL0.5 mi · 342
- FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,308
- JOHN LEWIS CHILDS SCHOOL0.9 mi · 674
- HOMESTEAD SCHOOL1.1 mi · 205
- H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,644
Frequently asked questions
About SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL?
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,572 students in grades 07-12.
What grades does SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 07-12.
How many students per teacher at SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.5:1 students per teacher at SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL?
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 7% White, 36% Hispanic, 27% Black, 27% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL in?
SEWANHAKA HIGH SCHOOL is part of SEWANHAKA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.