NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in New Hyde Park, NY

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7 public K-12 schools in New Hyde Park 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
5,390
Students
43.1/100
Avg Resource Index
14.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, New Hyde Park has more public-school enrollment than 59% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. New Hyde Park sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of New Hyde Park's 7 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 19-point gap between Herricks High School and Early Childhood Center shows the range hidden by New Hyde Park's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 41%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
61st percentile
Teacher staffing
58th percentile

New Hyde Park Memorial High School accounts for 31.7% of all New Hyde Park public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means New Hyde Park-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. 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

New Hyde Park school enrollment varies 5.6× across entities

New Hyde Park school enrollment ranges from 304 students (lowest) to 1,711 students (highest), a spread of 1,407 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

New Hyde Park student-teacher ratio is 14.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within New Hyde Park is typically wider than the New Hyde Park-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Herricks High School 52
2. Denton Avenue School 51
3. New Hyde Park Memorial High School 47
4. Manor Oaks William Bowie School 43
5. New Hyde Park Road School 40
6. Hillside Grade School 36
7. Early Childhood Center 33

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in New Hyde Park

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 New Hyde Park Memorial High School 58.5/100
  2. 2 Manor Oaks William Bowie School 56.6/100
  3. 3 New Hyde Park Road School 56.4/100
  4. 4 Early Childhood Center 50.5/100
  5. 5 Hillside Grade School 46.0/100

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Which New Hyde Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Herricks High School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the New Hyde Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in New Hyde Park, NY? ▼

New Hyde Park has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,390 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.7:1.

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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.