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What's the most underrated thing about SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
959
High
DISTRICT 468 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362478003431
SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL
140 SHEPHERD ST, ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY 11570 · (516) 255-8944 · Nassau County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL959 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% 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.
- BBeats 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
10.2:1
94 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
198 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 | 238 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 218 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 259 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 231 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 13 | 1% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · 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
96.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
51.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 96 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 up about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 96.0% | 51.0% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 43.0% |
% 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
77.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL
SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (77.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL this school | 959 | 20.6% | 77.2% |
| LYNBROOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LYNBROOK | 846 | 18.9% | 92.0% |
| PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL PEARL RIVER | 904 | 20.1% | 71.6% |
| HARBORFIELDS HIGH SCHOOL GREENLAWN | 923 | 21.1% | 93.2% |
| WARWICK VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL WARWICK | 1,314 | 20.7% | 74.8% |
| CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL NEW WINDSOR | 1,010 | 21.2% | 78.5% |
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 SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.2% | #221 of 1,135 | #29 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #583 of 1,109 ▲ 139 | #47 of 57 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 96.0% | #55 of 1,135 ▲ 43 | #11 of 56 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 959 | #254 of 1,216 | #40 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #354 of 1,058 | #11 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.9% | #469 of 1,070 | #36 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.6% | #1,089 of 1,167 | #35 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.0% | #369 of 743 | #8 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
959
-94 (-9%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 953
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 959 | 93.7 | 10.2:1 | 21% (198) |
| 2023-24 | 985 | 96.8 | 10.2:1 | 19% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 999 | 100.1 | 10.0:1 | 16% (156) |
| 2020-21 | 1,053 | 94 | 11.2:1 | 14% (148) |
| 2017-18 | 1,090 | 97.9 | 11.1:1 | 15% (162) |
| 2015-16 | 1,061 | 96 | 11.1:1 | 14% (145) |
| 2010-11 | 1,114 | 113 | 9.9:1 | 13% (148) |
| 2000-01 | 1,083 | 88 | 12.3:1 | 13% (143) |
| 1990-91 | 953 | 74 | 12.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL.
About SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL
SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL is a public high school run by ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in ROCKVILLE CENTRE, New York. The school serves 959 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. The average among high schools in New York is roughly 668 students; this school is 44% above that.
ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 7 schools; together they serve 3,276 students.
At 67%, White students outnumber all other groups at SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL combined. The school is also 18% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The White share of the county population is lower, at 57%. The chance that two students picked at random at SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 51%.
Teachers at the school number 93.7 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.2:1. The 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is higher than this school's figure. Roughly 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
Measured against New York public high schools, SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL sits between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 77.2% and a predicted 67.4%.
Among Nassau County residents, median household income is about $146,202, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County, which together enroll about 200,775 students.
The school nearest to SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL is WILSON SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Federal data place SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 1,053 in 2020-21 and 959 in 2024-25, a decrease of 94 students.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 806 students
- HEWITT SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
- WILSON SCHOOLElementary · 387 students
- WILLIAM S COVERT SCHOOLElementary · 286 students
- WATSON SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 149 students
Other schools in ROCKVILLE CENTRE
- SOUTH SIDE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 806 students
- HEWITT SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
- WILSON SCHOOLElementary · 387 students
- WATSON SCHOOLElementary · 224 students
- RIVERSIDE SCHOOLElementary · 149 students
Other South Side High schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named South Side High. SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- South Side High SchoolFort Wayne, IN · 1,405 students
- South Side High SchoolJackson, TN · 756 students
- South Side High SchoolHookstown, PA · 272 students
- SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOLBEE BRANCH, AR · 249 students
Nearby schools
- WILSON SCHOOL0.2 mi · 387
- PLAZA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 429
- LENOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 261
- BALDWIN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,470
- BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 236
- HEWITT SCHOOL1.0 mi · 465
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL?
SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 959 students in grades 09-12.
What age range does SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL serve?
SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 09 through grade 12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 10.2:1 (94 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL?
At SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 67% White, 18% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.