# SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362478003431`
- **School name**: SOUTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY 11570
- **Address**: 140 SHEPHERD ST
- **District**: ROCKVILLE CENTRE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3624780`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.66740, -73.62090
- **Phone**: (516)255-8944
- **Wikidata QID**: Q17065935 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Side_High_School_(Rockville_Centre,_New_York)
- **Founded**: 1892

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 959
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 93
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 20.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 4
  - HS CCCR: 4
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS Weight Performance: 4
  - HS Grad Rate: 4
  - 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**: 98.0% (cohort of 227)
- **2021**: 98.0% (cohort of 290)
- **2019**: 98.0% (cohort of 266)
- **2018**: 99.0% (cohort of 280)
- **2017**: 98.0% (cohort of 257)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 232

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.2% (76 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.6% (6 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 30.4% (299 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 14.3%
- **Black/African American**: 2.5%
- **Asian**: 6.7%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 73.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 2.6%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 19.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.6% — 154 students
- **English Learners**: 1.3% — 13 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 50 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 50 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 12 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 6 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Autism**: 4 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 4 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $41,023
- **Federal share**: $756
- **State + local share**: $40,267
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 985
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $36,988,119
- **Federal share**: 4.9%
- **State share**: 14.9%
- **Local share**: 80.1%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $24,103,448

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $234,028
- **Poverty rate**: 4.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 76.3%
- **Unemployment**: 10.3%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 8.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 1.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 4.3 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 17
- **Nearest brownfield**: 1.28 miles (COES NECK BALDWIN)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ROCKVILLE CENTRE (V)
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 11.4 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.0 mi away, 99% (this school: 98%)
- **VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 99% (this school: 98%)
- **ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNIONDALE** — 4.2 mi away, 99% (this school: 98%)
- **FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 99% (this school: 98%)
- **WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.8 mi away, 100% (this school: 98%)

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