# SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361902001721`
- **School name**: SANFORD H CALHOUN HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: MERRICK, NY 11566
- **Address**: 1786 STATE ST
- **District**: BELLMORE-MERRICK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3619020`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.67410, -73.56440
- **Phone**: (516)992-1300
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7417623 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_H._Calhoun_High_School
- **Founded**: 1958

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,219
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 124
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.8:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 20.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 4
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS CCCR: 4
  - HS Weight Performance: 4
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS Grad Rate: 3
  - 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**: 94.0% (cohort of 276)
- **2021**: 98.0% (cohort of 291)
- **2019**: 98.0% (cohort of 306)
- **2018**: 97.0% (cohort of 318)
- **2017**: 95.0% (cohort of 318)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 368

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.9% (96 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 17.3% (211 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 4
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.4%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 13.1%
- **Black/African American**: 6.3%
- **Asian**: 3.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 75.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 0.9%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 18.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.0% — 207 students
- **English Learners**: 0.9% — 11 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 57 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 53 students
- **Autism**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 4 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $35,530
- **Federal share**: $95
- **State + local share**: $35,435
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,217
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $32,300,039
- **Federal share**: 3.5%
- **State share**: 25.0%
- **Local share**: 71.6%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $20,504,242

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $140,033
- **Poverty rate**: 4.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 52.1%
- **Unemployment**: 4.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,523
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.0 miles (OLD ROOSEVELT FIELD CONTAMINATED GW AREA)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 12
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.69 miles (BISHOP PROPERTY PROPERTY B)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LIBERTY UTILITIES NEW YORK - LYNBROOK
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 15
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-07-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 9.1 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **WELLINGTON C MEPHAM HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 98% (this school: 94%)
- **BALDWIN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 98% (this school: 94%)
- **JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.6 mi away, 97% (this school: 94%)
- **WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 94%)
- **SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 98% (this school: 94%)

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

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