# WARD MELVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362820003809`
- **School name**: WARD MELVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: EAST SETAUKET, NY 11733
- **Address**: 380 OLD TOWN RD
- **District**: THREE VILLAGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3628200`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.91610, -73.07530
- **Phone**: (631)730-4900
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7969045 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Melville_High_School
- **Founded**: 1968

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,442
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 137
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 10.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 15.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Grad Rate: 4
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS CCCR: 4
  - HS Attendance: 4
  - EM Growth: s
  - EM Core Performance: s
  - EM Weight Performance: s
  - HS Weight Performance: 4
  - EM Attendance: s
  - 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**: 98.0% (cohort of 515)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 546)
- **2019**: 97.0% (cohort of 544)
- **2018**: 98.0% (cohort of 648)
- **2017**: 98.0% (cohort of 588)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 700

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.1% (33 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 7.2% (108 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 8
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.4%
- **Black/African American**: 10.5%
- **Asian**: 1.3%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 81.5%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 0.8%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 14.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.9% — 193 students
- **English Learners**: 0.9% — 13 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Other Health Impairment**: 64 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 56 students
- **Autism**: 36 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 22 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 12 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 1 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $41,024
- **Federal share**: $482
- **State + local share**: $40,542
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,491
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $39,590,532
- **Federal share**: 2.8%
- **State share**: 25.5%
- **Local share**: 71.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $24,242,890

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $148,405
- **Poverty rate**: 3.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 53.5%
- **Unemployment**: 2.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,109
- **Foreign-born residents**: 9.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 9.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 0.9 miles (LAWRENCE AVIATION INDUSTRIES INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.49 miles (BLUE POINT LAUNDRY)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.99034 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 18.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### graduation rate
- **ELWOOD/JOHN GLENN HIGH SCHOOL** — 14.3 mi away, 99% (this school: 98%)

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