WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as an average-sized 9-12 campus in WESTHAMPTON BEACH, New York, run under WESTHAMPTON BEACH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 970 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 45% larger than the state mean of about 668.

Within WESTHAMPTON BEACH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,625 students, WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Suffolk County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 17% of students at WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Suffolk County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.7%, the actual is 75.2%, a residual of +6.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put median household income runs about $130,686, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

Nearest neighbor: WESTHAMPTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WESTHAMPTON BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has stayed largely flat, going from 978 students in 2018 to 970 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 63% across the same window.

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