WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL

WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL is a heavily attended four-year high school in COPIAGUE, New York, one of the schools within COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school caters to 1,567 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL sits 135% above that benchmark.

WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 4,579 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 21% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 117 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.3%; this one delivers 52.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) records that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

The closest other public school is COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL has fell 3%, going from 1,608 students in 2018 to 1,567 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 58% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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