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Enrollment
911
High
DISTRICT 687 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH ORANGETOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362745003741
TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL
15 DUTCH HILL RD, ORANGEBURG, NY 10962 · (845) 680-1606 · Rockland County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL911 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 93% 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
10.3:1
89 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
210 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 223 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 198 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 245 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 241 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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 SOUTH ORANGETOWN CENTRAL 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
96.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -6.0pp 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 81 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 96.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 95.0% | 87.0% |
% 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
89.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+22.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 67% 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 23 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 TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL
TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (89.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL this school | 911 | 23.1% | 89.2% |
| HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL HARRISON | 1,066 | 25.0% | 80.7% |
| HAUPPAUGE HIGH SCHOOL HAUPPAUGE | 1,038 | 20.4% | 88.8% |
| HARBORFIELDS HIGH SCHOOL GREENLAWN | 923 | 21.1% | 93.2% |
| GEORGE W HEWLETT HIGH SCHOOL HEWLETT | 1,051 | 23.8% | 80.0% |
| 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 TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Rockland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 89.2% | #71 of 1,135 | #1 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #132 of 1,109 ▲ 3 | #2 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 96.0% | #58 of 1,135 ▲ 73 | #1 of 10 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 911 | #273 of 1,216 | #8 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #368 of 1,058 | #2 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.5% | #312 of 1,070 | #6 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.1% | #1,071 of 1,167 | #8 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.4% | #278 of 743 | N/A |
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
911
-42 (-4%) vs 2020
+53% since 1990-91, when it was 595
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 911 | 88.7 | 10.3:1 | 23% (210) |
| 2023-24 | 895 | 88.3 | 10.1:1 | 23% (203) |
| 2022-23 | 953 | 92.5 | 10.3:1 | 22% (212) |
| 2020-21 | 953 | 90 | 10.6:1 | 15% (146) |
| 2017-18 | 1,077 | 83.8 | 12.8:1 | 16% (171) |
| 2015-16 | 1,095 | 74 | 14.8:1 | 13% (143) |
| 2010-11 | 1,096 | 83 | 13.2:1 | 6% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 847 | 72 | 11.8:1 | 13% (113) |
| 1990-91 | 595 | 60 | 9.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL.
About TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL
TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL is the name of a medium-sized high school in ORANGEBURG, New York. A total of 911 students attend the school, which covers grades 9 through 12. The average for high schools in New York is about 668 students, so this school is 36% larger than average.
SOUTH ORANGETOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools with a combined 2,747 students. TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL is one of them.
A majority of students at TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL, 60%, are White. Next come 24% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, about 62% of residents are White. The chance that two students picked at random at TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 57%.
Teachers at the school number 88.7 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 10.3:1. Among high schools in New York, the typical ratio is 11.0:1. The school's lunch program data list 23% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Rockland County is 48%.
Measured against New York public high schools, TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests, 89.2%, is 22.6 points above the 66.5% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the top 10% of New York schools.
Among Rockland County residents, median household income is about $109,959, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 66 public schools in Rockland County, with a combined enrollment of about 41,335.
The closest other public school is ROCKLAND CHILDREN'S PSYCHIATRIC CENTER, about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL's average proficiency of 89.2% compares with 63.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL had 953 students in 2020-21 and 911 in 2024-25, a 4% decrease.
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Rockland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
341,883
Census ACS
Median income
$109,959
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
66
41,335 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTH ORANGETOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 641 students
- COTTAGE LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 636 students
- WILLIAM O SCHAEFER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 559 students
Other schools in ORANGEBURG
- ROCKLAND CHILDREN'S PSYCHIATRIC CENTERHigh · 11 students
Nearby schools
- ROCKLAND CHILDREN'S PSYCHIATRIC CENTER0.8 mi · 11
- SOUTH ORANGETOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 641
- COTTAGE LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 636
- WILLIAM O SCHAEFER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 559
- PEARL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL2.5 mi · 501
- Northvale Public School2.5 mi · 540
Frequently asked questions
About TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOLHow large is TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL?
TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 911 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL serve?
TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL have?
TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL employs 89 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.3:1.
What is the student diversity at TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 60% White, 24% Hispanic, 2% Black, 10% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL in?
TAPPAN ZEE HIGH SCHOOL is part of SOUTH ORANGETOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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