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What's one thing WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
970
High
DISTRICT 542 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTHAMPTON BEACH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363102004166
WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
49 LILAC RD, WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NY 11978 · (631) 288-3800 · Suffolk County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL970 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 69% of New York public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
12.1:1
80 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.8:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
166 students
DISTRICT 21% · 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 | 240 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 235 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 259 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 232 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 0% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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 WESTHAMPTON BEACH 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
90.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
61.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90.0% | 61.0% |
| 2023-24 | 92.0% | 46.0% |
% 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
75.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (75.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 970 | 17.1% | 75.2% |
| PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL PEARL RIVER | 904 | 20.1% | 71.6% |
| PELHAM MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL PELHAM | 852 | 15.5% | 79.2% |
| MAHOPAC HIGH SCHOOL MAHOPAC | 1,255 | 23.4% | 78.3% |
| CORNWALL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL NEW WINDSOR | 1,010 | 21.2% | 78.5% |
| SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL ROCKVILLE CENTRE | 959 | 20.6% | 77.2% |
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 WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #251 of 1,135 | #27 of 57 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #408 of 1,109 ▲ 285 | #30 of 57 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #194 of 1,135 ▲ 36 | #23 of 56 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 970 | #250 of 1,216 | #35 of 59 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #708 of 1,058 | #38 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.4% | #459 of 1,070 | #27 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.1% | #1,112 of 1,167 | #46 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.8% | #727 of 743 | #44 of 45 |
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
970
-37 (-4%) vs 2020
+19% since 1990-91, when it was 812
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 970 | 80.3 | 12.1:1 | 17% (166) |
| 2023-24 | 991 | 82.7 | 12.0:1 | 23% (226) |
| 2022-23 | 964 | 81.8 | 11.8:1 | 24% (233) |
| 2020-21 | 1,007 | 82 | 12.3:1 | 29% (292) |
| 2017-18 | 978 | 76.6 | 12.8:1 | 24% (234) |
| 2015-16 | 980 | 74 | 13.2:1 | 21% (209) |
| 2010-11 | 989 | 81 | 12.2:1 | 10% (99) |
| 2000-01 | 988 | 68 | 14.5:1 | 4% (40) |
| 1990-91 | 812 | 52 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public medium-sized high school in WESTHAMPTON BEACH, New York. It educates 970 students in grades 9 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in New York is about 668 students.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 1,625 students in 3 schools, and WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those schools.
White students are the majority at WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, with 63% of enrollment. Other groups make up 30% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. County-wide, about 66% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 51% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal data list 80.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in 2024-25, for a ratio of 12.1:1. That is 1.1 students per teacher above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 17%. On average, public schools in Suffolk County report 39%.
WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 69% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is +6.5 points: 75.2% actual, 68.7% predicted.
Across Suffolk County, the median household income is $130,686, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. In all, Suffolk County has 343 public schools and roughly 222,439 students.
WESTHAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.1 miles away in a straight line. In all, 7 other public schools sit within five miles of WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 1st on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has fallen by 37 students since 2020-21, to 970.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL covering things like sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WESTHAMPTON BEACH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WESTHAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 357 students
- WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 298 students
Other schools in WESTHAMPTON BEACH
- WESTHAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 357 students
- WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 298 students
Nearby schools
- WESTHAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 357
- WESTHAMPTON BEACH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 298
- QUOGUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.3 mi · 92
- REMSENBURG-SPEONK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 119
- EAST QUOGUE SCHOOL3.8 mi · 381
- EASTPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3.9 mi · 302
Frequently asked questions
About WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 970 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 80 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
How diverse is WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 63% White, 30% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by WESTHAMPTON BEACH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Suffolk County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.