# WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360831000609`
- **School name**: WALTER G O'CONNELL COPIAGUE HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: COPIAGUE, NY 11726
- **Address**: 1100 DIXON AVE
- **District**: COPIAGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3608310`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.68980, -73.39710
- **Phone**: (631)842-4010
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7964904 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_G._O%27Connell_Copiague_High_School
- **Founded**: 1957

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,567
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 117
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 53.6%

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 93.0% (cohort of 364)
- **2019**: 94.0% (cohort of 410)
- **2018**: 94.0% (cohort of 364)
- **2017**: 94.0% (cohort of 362)
- **2016**: 92.0% (cohort of 404)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 94

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 15.0% (227 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.8% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.8% (12 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.8% (107 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**: 61.9%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 23.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 11.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.4%
- **Two or more races**: 1.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 55.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.3% — 226 students
- **English Learners**: 16.1% — 255 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 120 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 57 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 8 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 8 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 2 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $33,915,567
- **Federal share**: 14.3%
- **State share**: 47.9%
- **Local share**: 37.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $17,592,450

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $123,222
- **Poverty rate**: 8.5%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 20.6%
- **Unemployment**: 5.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,882
- **Foreign-born residents**: 44.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 20.2%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (PREFERRED PLATING CORP)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 3
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 24
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.92 miles (T M BER ASSOCIATES INC)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.76964 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 4.0 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **COPIAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 0.37% (this school: 0.76%)
- **GREAT NECK ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0.67% (this school: 0.76%)
- **NORTHEAST SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.76%)
- **WEST GATES AVENUE SCHOOL** — 1.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.76%)
- **WILLIAM RALL SCHOOL** — 1.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.76%)

### graduation rate
- **FARMINGDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 95% (this school: 93%)
- **MASSAPEQUA HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.3 mi away, 99% (this school: 93%)
- **BABYLON JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 3.8 mi away, 96% (this school: 93%)
- **PLAINEDGE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.1 mi away, 98% (this school: 93%)
- **WEST ISLIP SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 5.0 mi away, 97% (this school: 93%)

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