Public school / High
Ward Melville Senior High School
East Setauket, New York
- NCES ID
- 362820003809
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Ward Melville Senior High School is a public high school in East Setauket, New York, run by Three Village Central School District. It enrols 1,507 students — the 3710th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,507
Teachers
140.0
Students per teacher
10.8
Free or reduced-price lunch
14.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Three Village Central School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Ward Melville Senior High School1,507 students
- 2Robert Cushman Murphy Junior High School667 students
- 3Paul J Gelinas Junior High School647 students
- 4Minnesauke Elementary School642 students
- 5Setauket Elementary School604 students
- 6Arrowhead Elementary School571 students
- 7Nassakeag Elementary School543 students
- 8William Sidney Mount Elementary School511 students
- Enrollment+232.7%
- Teachers+278.4%
- Students per teacher−6.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−74.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory