VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL

VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL, a big high school in VALLEY STREAM, New York, part of VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 1,229 students, covering grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 84% bigger than typical.

Within VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 4,547 students, VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL shows that 31% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 29% Black, 24% Asian, 12% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 108 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 38% of students at VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.2%, the actual is 71.3%, a residual of +10.1 points.

In the area at large, Nassau County reports that median household income runs about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

ROBERT W CARBONARO SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 61.9%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 1,287 students in 2018 compared to 1,229 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 19% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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