Deer Park High School, Deer Park NY

Original Research by School Decision on Deer Park High School

Deer Park High School is a four-year high school serving a mid-sized enrollment in Deer Park, a residential and commercial hamlet in the Town of Babylon on western Long Island. The school's student body is ethnically diverse, with roughly equal representation across white, Hispanic, Black, and Asian students, and a substantial share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the area's working and middle-class character.

The hamlet itself is car-oriented and spread out along a commercial corridor rather than built around a walkable center. Daily life concentrates along Deer Park Avenue, a strip-mall and chain-restaurant strip that connects to multiple highways, and at the nearby Tanger Outlets. Neighborhoods are quiet, midcentury suburban residential subdivisions. The Deer Park LIRR station offers access to Manhattan commuting, and the public library and a town-operated pool anchor local civic life. The area functions largely as a bedroom community for New York City workers. Housing values in the zip code have held relatively stable, and the real estate market shows moderate activity; the town is pursuing a revitalization effort aimed at improving walkability and the vitality of commercial corridors, though implementation was ongoing as of late 2024.

State testing data for Deer Park High School was not available in the reported results. The school serves grades nine through twelve, and state assessments at the high school level are structured differently than in middle grades, so proficiency metrics from the state testing system do not appear for this grade band in the data provided. A parent should contact the school directly or consult the district's website to understand how the school's students perform on Regents examinations and other state measures used to evaluate high school academic achievement.

The district has recently made investments in school facilities. In 2022, the Board of Education approved capital improvements including a new security vestibule at Deer Park High School and roof replacement, reflecting attention to campus security and building conditions. The 2025-26 school budget, approved by voters, raised district spending with a corresponding increase in the property tax levy, a change families will see reflected in property tax bills.

A parent considering Deer Park High School should seek out the school's course catalog and program offerings, information on AP or dual-enrollment pathways, and details on extracurricular activities and clubs, as these details were not available in the data provided. The school's website and conversations with the guidance counselor would give a fuller picture of academic tracks and student support available to ninth through twelfth graders in this community.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

94.0%Cohort of 349 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

22 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

33 tested

45.5%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

18 tested · Grade 9

55.6%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

23 tested · Grade 10

69.6%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

27 tested

55.6%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

18 tested · Grade 9

38.9%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

15 tested · Grade 9

93.3%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

48 tested · Grade 9

18.8%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

18 tested · Grade 9

22.2%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

8 tested · Grade 9

25.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

12 tested

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

68 tested · Grade 10

86.8%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Human Geography

25 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

68.0%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

52 tested

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

27 tested · Grade 10

70.4%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

90 tested

76.7%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Art History

6 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Music Theory

14 tested

14.3%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

100 tested

44.0%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

69 tested

81.2%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

65 tested

56.9%

scored 3 or higher

World History

86 tested · Grade 10

75.6%

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
Ela	388	77.0%
Math	359	58.0%
Social Studies	357	93.0%
Science	185	61.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 44% · ▼ 44 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 46% · ▼ 46 pts below district

▼ 48 pts below state median · ▼ 44 pts below county median

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 41% · ▼ 41 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

This schoolDEER PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

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.