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Enrollment
826
High
DISTRICT 571 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362985004011
WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
3297 BELTAGH AVE, WANTAGH, NY 11793 · (516) 679-6401 · Nassau County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL826 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 87% 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.
- A-Beats 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
11.1:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
89 students
DISTRICT 11% · 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 | 197 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 220 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 197 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 209 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 31% · 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 WANTAGH UNION FREE 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
95.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -1.0pp since 2023
Math
87.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 95.0% | 87.0% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 98.0% |
% 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
87.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (87.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 826 | 10.8% | 87.3% |
| SAYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL WEST SAYVILLE | 814 | 13.6% | 91.8% |
| KINGS PARK HIGH SCHOOL KINGS PARK | 823 | 14.3% | 86.3% |
| JOHN JAY HIGH SCHOOL CROSS RIVER | 912 | 8.2% | 86.4% |
| SOMERS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL LINCOLNDALE | 847 | 13.7% | 93.3% |
| SEAFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SEAFORD | 650 | 14.6% | 71.7% |
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 WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.3% | #98 of 1,135 | #20 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #75 of 1,109 ▼ 61 | #14 of 57 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 95.0% | #86 of 1,135 ▲ 17 | #17 of 56 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 826 | #310 of 1,216 | #45 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #544 of 1,058 | #26 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.9% | #808 of 1,070 | #56 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.8% | #1,147 of 1,167 | #52 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.7% | #379 of 743 | #10 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
826
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 804
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 10.5:1
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 | 826 | 74.2 | 11.1:1 | 11% (89) |
| 2023-24 | 833 | 74.3 | 11.2:1 | 11% (91) |
| 2022-23 | 836 | 73.4 | 11.4:1 | 11% (88) |
| 2020-21 | 833 | 79 | 10.5:1 | 5% (44) |
| 2017-18 | 935 | 78.8 | 11.9:1 | 8% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 1,038 | 78 | 13.3:1 | 7% (71) |
| 2010-11 | 1,167 | 87 | 13.4:1 | 1% (15) |
| 2000-01 | 912 | 64 | 14.3:1 | 1% (9) |
| 1990-91 | 804 | 61 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WANTAGH, New York, is home to WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, a mid-sized high school. It teaches 826 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, high schools in New York enroll about 668 students on average.
WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL belongs to WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 5 schools and 2,854 students.
White students are 84% of those enrolled at WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Enrollment also includes 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. The school's White share is 28 points above the 57% share among Nassau County residents. The diversity index for WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 28%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 11.1:1, based on 74.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is close to this figure. Lunch program data show 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Across public schools in Nassau County, the average is 31%.
On the allk12 Grade, WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lands at A, ahead of 87% of New York public high schools.
WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 16.3 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (87.3% versus 71.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in New York.
The school is in Nassau County, where median household income comes to about $146,202, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Nassau County's 315 public schools enroll about 200,775 students and include WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.1 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL had 833 students in 2020-21 and 826 in 2024-25, nearly the same.
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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 WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WANTAGH SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 645 students
- FOREST LAKE SCHOOLElementary · 390 students
- MANDALAY SCHOOLElementary · 321 students
Other schools in WANTAGH
- WANTAGH SCHOOLElementary · 672 students
- WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 645 students
- FOREST LAKE SCHOOLElementary · 390 students
- MANDALAY SCHOOLElementary · 321 students
- LEE ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 312 students
Nearby schools
- WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 645
- FOREST LAKE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 390
- SAW MILL ROAD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 700
- WANTAGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 672
- LEE ROAD SCHOOL1.0 mi · 312
- JONAS E SALK MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 899
Frequently asked questions
About WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow large is WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 826 students in grades 09-12.
Is WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many teachers does WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 74 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
At WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 84% White, 9% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
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