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Enrollment
1,574
High
DISTRICT 747 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363096004162
WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL
1 POST RD, OLD WESTBURY, NY 11568 · (516) 876-5047 · Nassau County
GRADES 09–12HIGH41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,574 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
13.6:1
116 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
1,012 students
DISTRICT 60% · 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 | 350 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 403 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 407 | 26% |
| Grade 12 | 405 | 26% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 1% |
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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 WESTBURY 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
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
45.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 45.0% |
| 2023-24 | 73.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
52.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL
WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (52.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,574 | 64.3% | 52.2% |
| HEMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL HEMPSTEAD | 1,879 | 68.2% | 43.7% |
| FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL FREEPORT | 2,244 | 64.3% | 52.8% |
| UNIONDALE HIGH SCHOOL UNIONDALE | 2,106 | 61.4% | 46.3% |
| WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL COPIAGUE | 1,567 | 53.6% | 52.3% |
| PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PORT CHESTER | 1,549 | 66.6% | 66.7% |
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 WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #701 of 1,135 | #52 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #673 of 1,109 ▲ 5 | #49 of 57 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #514 of 1,135 ▲ 85 | #47 of 56 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,574 | #84 of 1,216 | #12 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #891 of 1,058 | #54 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.8% | #696 of 1,070 | #50 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.3% | #570 of 1,167 | #4 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.0% | #635 of 743 | #28 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
1,574
+6 (+0%) vs 2020
+141% since 1990-91, when it was 654
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 1,574 | 116.2 | 13.6:1 | 64% (1,012) |
| 2023-24 | 1,561 | 110.6 | 14.1:1 | 61% (953) |
| 2022-23 | 1,541 | 113.2 | 13.6:1 | 59% (906) |
| 2020-21 | 1,568 | 107 | 14.7:1 | 59% (918) |
| 2017-18 | 1,640 | 101.2 | 16.2:1 | 71% (1,170) |
| 2015-16 | 1,457 | 76 | 19.2:1 | 83% (1,216) |
| 2010-11 | 1,210 | 79 | 15.3:1 | 71% (865) |
| 2000-01 | 963 | 69 | 14.0:1 | 55% (532) |
| 1990-91 | 654 | 53 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL.
About WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL
WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL runs as a large high school in OLD WESTBURY, New York. It enrolled 1,574 students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 136% higher than the average for high schools in New York, which is about 668.
In WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, 6 schools enroll a combined 4,480 students.
Hispanic students account for 76% of enrollment at WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL. Other students are 20% Black and 3% White. That is higher than the 19% Hispanic share among all Nassau County residents. WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL has a diversity index of 39%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 116.2 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.6:1. The 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. Roughly 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Nassau County average 31%.
WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 36% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL's results are within a point of predicted: 52.2% against 51.4%.
County data help place the school in context: in Nassau County, median household income is about $146,202, roughly 50% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. The public schools of Nassau County number 315 and enroll about 200,775.
The closest public school, WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.4 miles from WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL is 3rd of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
In the federal locale system, WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (1,568) and 2024-25 (1,574). There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.6:1) than in 2020-21 (14.7:1).
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 945 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 557 students
- DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 513 students
- POWELLS LANE SCHOOLElementary · 476 students
- DRYDEN STREET SCHOOLElementary · 415 students
- NASSAU CO JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERElementary
Other Westbury High schools
One other US public school is named Westbury High. WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Westbury High SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 1,991 students
Nearby schools
- WESTBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 945
- POWELLS LANE SCHOOL0.5 mi · 476
- DREXEL AVENUE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 513
- DRYDEN STREET SCHOOL1.1 mi · 415
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOL1.3 mi · 557
- CARLE PLACE MIDDLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.3 mi · 617
Frequently asked questions
About WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOLHow large is WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL?
WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,574 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL serve?
WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 13.6:1 (116 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL?
At WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 76% Hispanic, 20% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL in?
WESTBURY HIGH SCHOOL is part of WESTBURY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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