Bethpage Senior High School, Bethpage NY

Original Research by School Decision on Bethpage Senior High School

Bethpage Senior High School serves grades nine through twelve in a small suburb on Long Island's South Shore. The enrollment sits at just over a thousand students, making it a compact high school within a district that spans a handful of elementary and middle schools.

The school draws from a community that is solidly middle to upper-middle class. Bethpage itself is mainly residential single-family homes, with a median home value in the area well above the state benchmark and climbing modestly. A substantial share of families own their homes, and the hamlet maintains the character of a stable suburban enclave with ties to the aerospace and defense industry through Northrop Grumman's long presence there. The school's student body reflects this: it is majority white, with meaningful shares of Asian and Hispanic students. About one in four students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a rate well below the county midpoint, indicating a generally affluent enrollment with pockets of economic diversity.

State assessment data and the school's graduation rate were not available, so a reader cannot see direct measures of academic attainment here. This gap often reflects a school's size or the nature of the data system rather than a weakness; however, a parent seeking to understand how Bethpage's ninth through twelfth graders perform on statewide exams or how many graduate would want to ask the school directly for those results.

The district itself has made two moves that shape the school's landscape. In early 2025, voters approved a major capital facilities project funded through an existing reserve and a tax-neutral bond, meaning no tax increase for residents. The work covers roof work at all six district buildings and elevator repairs at the middle school, a signal that the district is investing in its physical plant. More immediately relevant to families with younger children, the district launched a Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES) program for kindergarten through fifth grade, exposing students to Spanish, French, and Italian early, with fifth graders choosing a language to continue in middle and high school. That pipeline feeds into Bethpage High's foreign language offerings and suggests the district is building intentionally from the ground up.

The hamlet itself sits near the Long Island Rail Road's Bethpage station, giving families direct rail access to Manhattan. Bethpage State Park, home to five golf courses and an extensive trail system, anchors the area's civic life. The housing market is tight and expensive, with moderate growth in the number of listings but a shrinking pool of homes in pending sales, a sign typical of a constrained, high-cost market where homes move quickly once listed.

Enrollment data showed a fairly even spread across the four grades, with no unusual skew toward seniors or freshmen, and the workforce is drawn largely from a middle to affluent district where the vast majority of families own homes rather than rent. Without state test scores, graduation data, or information about program breadth, course offerings, or staffing, a parent would benefit from visiting the school's website and speaking with administrators about academics, Advanced Placement or dual-enrollment options, post-secondary outcomes, and extracurricular and athletic offerings.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

97.0%Cohort of 240 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,253 schools plotted. 14 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Advanced Placement & IB

26 subjects offered · 2023-24

Each card is one AP or IB subject. The headline number is the share of students scoring 3 or higher on the exam — the threshold for college credit at most universities. The bar below each rate shows the underlying distribution across performance levels.

Score:12· no credit345· extremely well qualified

Math and Computer Science

Calculus AB

28 tested

78.6%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

26 tested

84.6%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

15 tested · Grade 10

53.3%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

23 tested · Grade 10

56.5%

scored 3 or higher

Precalculus

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

39 tested

76.9%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

37 tested · Grade 10

86.5%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

23 tested · Grade 10

82.6%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

24 tested

70.8%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

16 tested

62.5%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

15 tested

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

35 tested

97.1%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

63 tested · Grade 10

98.4%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Comparative Government and Politics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

53 tested

67.9%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

112 tested

94.6%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Italian Language and Culture

15 tested

73.3%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

18 tested

77.8%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Art History

8 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art Drawing

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

122 tested

73.8%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

49 tested

93.9%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

112 tested

92.0%

scored 3 or higher

World History

76 tested · Grade 10

94.7%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Social Studies	272	97.0%
Science	241	91.0%
Ela	236	97.0%
Math	176	90.0%

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.