Top Long Island SAT Scores by School District (East Rockaway: low income, neighborhoods)

[Quick Commenter]

I see it as a guide to where the parents demand the most from their kids and the kids are therefore the most motivated to do well (I figure the teachers, texts, desks, pencils, and IQ's are all essentially similar across many LI districts...parents and student motivation are the decisive and varying factors in student achievement).

It could be that Asian parents tend to be more demanding.

(Note, to these and to all generalities in life there must be exceptions)

[TEPLimey]

Originally Posted by chetstash

Long Island School Districts Ranked by SAT Scores | Patch


Jericho School District—1855
Roslyn Public Schools—1820
Great Neck Public Schools—1776
Herricks Union Free School District—1767
Syosset Central School District—1766
East Williston Union Free School District—1759
Cold Spring Harbor Central School District—1714
Port Jefferson Union Free School District—1704
Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District—1700
Port Washington Union Free School District—1700
Half Hollow Hills Central School District—1663
Harborfields Central School District—1662
North Shore Central School District—1662
Three Village Central School District—1659
Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools—1658
Garden City Public Schools—1653
Rockville Centre Union Free School District—1632
Commack School District—1623
Elwood Union Free School District—1617
Northport-East Northport Union Free School District—1608
Sag Harbor Union Free School District—1603
Westhampton Beach Union Free School District—1590
Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District—1589
Lynbrook Union Free School District—1585
Smithtown Central School District—1580
Mount Sinai Union Free School District—1570
Sayville Union Free School District—1569
Kings Park Central School District—1560
Hauppauge Union Free School District—1559
Mattituck-Cutchogue Union Free School District—1556
Huntington Union Free School District— 1555
Southold Union Free School District—1553
Miller Place Union Free School District—1552
Wantagh Union Free School District—1547
Carle Place Union Free School District—1546
Bethpage Union Free School District—1545
Locust Valley Central School District—1536
Tuckahoe Union Free School District—1534
Bayport-Blue Point Union Free School District—1530
Massapequa Union Free School District —1527
Plainedge School District—1527
Shoreham-Wading River Central School District—1523
Oceanside School District—1522
Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District—1515
Seaford Union Free School District—1512
Hicksville Union Free School District—1509
Long Beach City School District—1507
Southampton Union Free School District—1505
Mineola Union Free School District—1504
West Islip Union Free School District—1503

More at link.

Tough to really extrapolate anything from this list because average SAT numbers are so easily skewed by a small number of low-performing students. Not saying that his is the case, but (for example) if a town has a small group of ESL students that score very low, then the whole average is dragged down. That's why I don't like average SAT scores to evaluate school and student performance.

[Quick Commenter]

Originally Posted by TEPLimey

Tough to really extrapolate anything from this list because average SAT numbers are so easily skewed by a small number of low-performing students. Not saying that his is the case, but (for example) if a town has a small group of ESL students that score very low, then the whole average is dragged down. That's why I don't like average SAT scores to evaluate school and student performance.

I think it is understood that as an average the lower scorers will effect things one way and the higher scorer's another.

I don't know if it is any more or less enlightening as a data point about a district given that it is an elective exam (SAT) and may not even be taken by someone not thinking of college.

Certain Regents exams (essentially required for graduation), on the other hand, might skew things even more than an SAT ranking.

Just an imperfect data point as are all rankings and district-wide test results.

[85dumbo]

Originally Posted by LIGuy1202

"...on Long Island."

One wouldn't say, "I live in a continent". "Trees grow in islands." "Man landed in the moon." etc.

[Edit: it's a boring thread...divergence is to be expected]

Not to be a semantics nerd, but if I live in New York State, why can't I live in Long Island also?
I don't live on New York State or live on the USA.

[ovi8]

^ because the keyword is island. It is considered a surface like the moon. You don't live in surfaces, but on them. It's more about how it sounds.

[85dumbo]

Ok, but I will continue to say I live in LI just annoy the natives here with their annoying Lawnguy accents and bad gramma.

[gibson station]

Originally Posted by TEPLimey

Tough to really extrapolate anything from this list because average SAT numbers are so easily skewed by a small number of low-performing students. Not saying that his is the case, but (for example) if a town has a small group of ESL students that score very low, then the whole average is dragged down. That's why I don't like average SAT scores to evaluate school and student performance.

Agree. Medians are much more useful.

Nonetheless, this list seems to be more or less in an unsurprising order.

[breetai3]

Some similarities to the rankings I did based mostly off Regents scores:

101.2 - Jericho HS (Jericho*) 90
98.4 - Great Neck South* (Great Neck) 91
98.3 - Manhasset High School (Manhasset*) 87
98.0 - Garden City HS (Garden City*) 89
97.2 - Cold Spring Harbor HS (CSH Central*) 87
96.7 - Syosset High School (Syosset*) 90
95.5 - Roslyn High School (Roslyn*) 86
94.6 - Plainview-Old Bethpage (Plainview-Old Bethpage*) 84
93.6 - Half Hollow Hills HS East* (Half Hollow Hills) 80
93.4 - Wheatley School (East Williston*) 91
91.9 - Commack High School (Commack*) 88
91.4 - Half Hollow Hills HS West* (Half Hollow Hills) 78
91.3 - South Side High School (Rockville Centre*) 90
90.5 - North Shore HS (North Shore*) 81
90.2 - Herricks High School (Herricks*) 71
89.0 - Great Neck North* (Great Neck) 84
88.5 - Wantagh High School (Wantagh*) 76
88.4 - JFK* (Bellmore-Merrick) 80
88.3 - New Hyde Park Memorial* (Sewanhaka) 69
88.0 - Harborfields High School (Harborfields Central*) 84
88.0 - George W Hewlett (Hewlett-Woodmere*) 76
87.9 - Ward Melville (Three Village*) 72
86.6 - Smithtown HS West* (Smithtown) 77
85.9 - Elwood/John Glenn HS (Elwood*) 69
85.4 - Locust Valley HS (Locust Valley*) 83
85.1 - Massapequa High School (Massapequa*) 71
84.8 - Paul D Schreiber (Port Washington*) 65
84.5 - Mount Sinai High School (Mount Sinai*) 72
84.1 - Smithtown High School East* (Smithtown) 71
83.5 - Earl L Vandermeulen HS (Port Jefferson*) 70
83.3 - Northport SHS (Northport-East Northport*) 70
83.1 - Bayport-Blue Point HS (Bayport-Blue Point*) 84
82.9 - Hauppauge High School (Hauppauge*) 68
82.3 - Gen Douglas MacArthur HS* (Levittown) 75
82.1 - Bethpage Senior High School (Bethpage*) 75
81.8 - Sayville High School (Sayville) 76
80.5 - Mepham* (Bellmore-Merrick) 72
80.5 - Lynbrook Senior HS (Lynbrook*) 68
80.4 - Mineola High School (Mineola*) 73
80.4 - Mattituck SHS (Mattituck-Cutchogue*) 64
79.9 - Plainedge Senior High School (Plainedge*) 70
79.6 - Carle Place Senior High School (Carle Place*) 65
79.4 - Floral Park Memorial* (Sewanhaka) 62
79.2 - Calhoun* (Bellmore-Merrick) 62
79.0 - Valley Stream North* (VS North) 67
78.7 - Oceanside Senior HS (Oceanside*) 69

[breetai3]

Originally Posted by VA Yankee

It often seems like the LI High School rankings and test scores are closer scrutinized than the racing sheet at OTB's.

When you can sell a shack in Jericho for 500k, there's a reason for it. Good schools are the be all and end all of property values on LI. Every homeowner as a vested interest in their district showing up high on all of these ranking sheets, not that I necessarily agree with the practice, since most of the metrics used are horrible (US World and News Reports in particular).

[gibson station]

Originally Posted by breetai3

When you can sell a shack in Jericho for 500k, there's a reason for it. Good schools are the be all and end all of property values on LI. Every homeowner as a vested interest in their district showing up high on all of these ranking sheets, not that I necessarily agree with the practice, since most of the metrics used are horrible (US World and News Reports in particular).

Meh. Even before ranking mania took hold, we all knew which districts were desirable.