NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Huntington Station, NY

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7 public K-12 schools in Huntington Station from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
5,141
Students
41.7/100
Avg Resource Index
10.6:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Huntington Station has more public-school enrollment than 56% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Walt Whitman High School enrolls 37.7% of Huntington Station's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Huntington Station's 7 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Huntington Station's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 54th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 97th percentile. The 43-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment
Top 44%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
54th percentile
Teacher staffing
97th percentile

Walt Whitman High School accounts for 37.7% of all Huntington Station public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Huntington Station-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Huntington Station school enrollment varies 5.8× across entities

Huntington Station school enrollment ranges from 335 students (lowest) to 1,939 students (highest), a spread of 1,604 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Huntington Station student-teacher ratio is 10.6:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Walt Whitman High School 49
2. Maplewood Intermediate School 46
3. Henry L Stimson Middle School 44
4. Jack Abrams Stem Magnet School 40
5. Silas Wood 6th Grade Center 38
6. Washington School 38
7. Countrywood Primary Center 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Huntington Station

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Countrywood Primary Center 63.0/100
  2. 2 Maplewood Intermediate School 62.7/100
  3. 3 Silas Wood 6th Grade Center 62.1/100
  4. 4 Jack Abrams Stem Magnet School 61.9/100
  5. 5 Walt Whitman High School 61.2/100

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Which Huntington Station school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Walt Whitman High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Huntington Station schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Huntington Station, NY? ▼

Huntington Station has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,141 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.6:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.