WYANDANCH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Set in WYANDANCH, New York, WYANDANCH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack high school, overseen by WYANDANCH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 850 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 27% larger than typical.

WYANDANCH UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,472 students; WYANDANCH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, WYANDANCH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL records that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 32% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Suffolk County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, WYANDANCH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 39.2%, a residual of -7.9 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put median household earnings sit near $130,686, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. WYANDANCH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 343 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students).

MILTON L OLIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WYANDANCH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.8%.

WYANDANCH MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 11%: 766 students in 2018 compared to 850 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 66% across the same window.

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