# VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362952003983`
- **School name**: VALLEY STREAM SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: VALLEY STREAM, NY 11581
- **Address**: 150 JEDWOOD PL
- **District**: VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3629520`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 7–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.65420, -73.71400
- **Phone**: (516)791-0310
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7912219 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Stream_South_High_School
- **Founded**: 1955

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,229
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 107
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 11.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 37.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Grad Rate: 4
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS CCCR: 4
  - HS Attendance: 4
  - EM Growth: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Attendance: 4
  - HS Weight Performance: 4
  - EM ELP: s
  - 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**: 97.0% (cohort of 198)
- **2021**: 98.0% (cohort of 202)
- **2019**: 98.0% (cohort of 208)
- **2018**: 94.0% (cohort of 214)
- **2017**: 92.0% (cohort of 197)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 280

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.1% (14 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.2% (3 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.0% (87 students) [source: crdc]

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

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 29.8%
- **Black/African American**: 24.0%
- **Asian**: 29.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 15.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 40.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 11.8% — 147 students
- **English Learners**: 0.6% — 8 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 63 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 23 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 14 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 7 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,832
- **Federal share**: $1,199
- **State + local share**: $30,632
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,244
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $31,168,970
- **Federal share**: 10.1%
- **State share**: 28.9%
- **Local share**: 61.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,533,082

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $138,783
- **Poverty rate**: 12.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 45.2%
- **Unemployment**: 6.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,839
- **Foreign-born residents**: 30.6%
- **Single-parent households**: 3.9%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.4 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 20
- **Nearest brownfield**: 3.74 miles (FORMER ELMONT WELDING SHOP)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.2128 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **FOREST ROAD SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 66% (this school: 58%)
- **WOODMERE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 59% (this school: 58%)
- **CLEARSTREAM AVENUE SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 68% (this school: 58%)
- **WILLIAM L BUCK SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 65% (this school: 58%)
- **SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 60% (this school: 58%)

### graduation rate
- **VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 1.3 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)
- **MALVERNE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.0 mi away, 98% (this school: 97%)
- **FLORAL PARK MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.2 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)
- **H FRANK CAREY HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.8 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)
- **YORK EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY** — 4.8 mi away, 99% (this school: 97%)

### math proficiency
- **WOODMERE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 82.67% (this school: 81.25%)
- **CLEARSTREAM AVENUE SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 88% (this school: 81.25%)
- **MARION STREET SCHOOL** — 2.2 mi away, 83% (this school: 81.25%)
- **HOWARD T HERBER MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.9 mi away, 81.33% (this school: 81.25%)
- **VALLEY STREAM NORTH HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.1 mi away, 83.5% (this school: 81.25%)

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