# PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362247003165`
- **School name**: PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: MEDFORD, NY 11763
- **Address**: 181 BUFFALO AVE
- **District**: PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3622470`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.80921, -72.98834
- **Phone**: (631)687-6500
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14707156 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchogue-Medford_High_School
- **Founded**: 1972

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,487
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 205
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 51.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 3
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS ELP: 2
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS Weight Performance: 3
  - HS Grad Rate: 2
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 86.0% (cohort of 627)
- **2021**: 88.0% (cohort of 613)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 345

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 68.2% (1,624 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.8% (43 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 11.7% (286 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 19
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 43.6%
- **Black/African American**: 2.5%
- **Asian**: 4.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 47.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 2.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 56.0%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.6% — 261 students
- **English Learners**: 8.8% — 216 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 112 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 70 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 25 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 17 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Autism**: 9 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $28,226
- **Federal share**: $1,988
- **State + local share**: $26,238
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,455
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $30,603,273
- **Federal share**: 10.6%
- **State share**: 39.1%
- **Local share**: 50.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,530,908

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $137,691
- **Poverty rate**: 2.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.5%
- **Unemployment**: 3.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,200
- **Foreign-born residents**: 17.8%
- **Single-parent households**: 8.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.7 miles (GOLDISC RECORDINGS INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 11
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.02 miles (FORMER BELLPORT GAS STATION)

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 0.89% (this school: 1.35%)
- **BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 0.76% (this school: 1.35%)
- **MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.5 mi away, 0.36% (this school: 1.35%)

### graduation rate
- **SACHEM HIGH SCHOOL EAST** — 2.7 mi away, 93% (this school: 86%)
- **BELLPORT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 91% (this school: 86%)
- **LONGWOOD HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 87% (this school: 86%)
- **NEWFIELD HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.8 mi away, 93% (this school: 86%)
- **BAYPORT-BLUE POINT HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.8 mi away, 98% (this school: 86%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/patchogue-medford-high-school-medford/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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