SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL

As a medium-sized 9-12 campus in SOUTHAMPTON, New York, SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL instructs 582 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within SOUTHAMPTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within SOUTHAMPTON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,270 students, SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 37% White, 6% Native American, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 47% of students at SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.8%, the actual is 70.5%, a residual of +12.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTHAMPTON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL has declined 11%, going from 653 students in 2018 to 582 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 39% to 52%. Class-load math has fell: from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 in 2025.

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