WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is an average-sized high school in WANTAGH, New York, part of WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school caters to 826 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

WANTAGH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,854 students; WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. The state averages about 11.0:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 11% of students at WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Nassau County's rate of about 31%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.0%, the actual is 87.3%, a residual of +16.3 points.

Across the wider county, Nassau County reports that the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Nassau County's 315 public schools (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students), WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WANTAGH MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 68.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 935 (now 826). The White share of enrollment edged down from 91% to 84% over that span.

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