WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL

WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL operates as a large high school in BELLMORE, New York, operated by BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 1,211 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 81% bigger than the state mean of about 668.

Within BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 5,283 students, WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL shows that White students make up the majority at 67%. The remainder reads as 16% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Nassau County (around 31%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 68.0%; WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL posts 89.7%, +21.6 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Nassau County indicate the typical household earns roughly $146,202 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County (combined enrollment of about 200,775 students).

The closest other public school is GRAND AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 71.6%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL has contracted 3%, going from 1,248 students in 2018 to 1,211 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 80% to 67% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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