Elwood/john Glenn High School, Elwood NY

Original Research by School Decision on Elwood/john Glenn High School

Elwood-John Glenn High School serves roughly nine through twelve, a total enrollment of about seven hundred students distributed evenly across grades. The student body is majority white, with substantial Hispanic and Asian enrollment; approximately one in four students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school is situated in Elwood, a small, mostly residential hamlet near the center of the Town of Huntington on Long Island's North Shore. Elwood is car-dependent, with retail concentrated along corridors rather than in a walkable downtown; most residents commute out for work and drive locally for shopping and services. The community is built-out and largely owner-occupied single-family housing, created mostly in prior decades, with extremely tight housing supply. Recent property development has centered on conversion of large former agricultural parcels, including an age-restricted residential community built on the former Oak Tree Dairy site. Median home values in the zip code are in the mid-to-upper range; median monthly rent is moderate but rising. The housing market shows more active inventory than a year ago, and homes move to sale in roughly a month and a half.

State assessment results for this school were not available in the data provided, so no picture of proficiency or subject-specific strength emerges. Likewise, a graduation rate was not reported. These absences often reflect missing state data rather than a gap in the school's performance, particularly when a school sits within a reporting district, but a parent may want to ask the school directly for recent proficiency results and graduation rates so you can form a clear view of academic outcomes. The school's own website may carry this information, or you could contact the school directly or the Elwood Union Free School District office.

The Elwood Union Free School District, which operates this high school along with an intermediate school, a middle school, and a primary school, recently moved through a significant budget and staffing transition. In spring 2025, the district proposed a budget that exceeded the state property-tax-levy cap; the initial vote failed, and a revised budget passed only after multiple rounds of cuts totaling a substantial amount. The final adopted budget included reductions in school security, cocurricular clubs, and teaching positions through attrition. While the budget ultimately passed, it carried a higher property-tax increase than a cap-compliant budget would have allowed, so families now face higher taxes alongside a narrower program footprint. This is ongoing context for any family weighing the school: both property-tax burden and breadth of offerings have shifted.

Meaningful program and support detail, enrollment demographics, and community information about the district were not available beyond what appears here, so a fuller picture of course breadth, special services, extracurricular offerings, and peer composition would benefit from direct conversation with the school.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=95%Cohort of 170 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

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

23 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

17 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

18 tested

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

6 tested

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

13 tested

69.2%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

42 tested

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

16 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

13 tested

69.2%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

35 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

36 tested

69.4%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

20 tested

95.0%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

33 tested · Grade 10

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Macroeconomics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

49 tested · Grade 10

93.9%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

44 tested

97.7%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Italian Language and Culture

7 tested

85.7%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

12 tested · Grade 10

91.7%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

62 tested · Grade 10

72.6%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

7 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

50 tested

98.0%

scored 3 or higher

World History

33 tested · Grade 10

87.9%

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	175	91.0%
Ela	169	95.0%
Math	124	66.0%
Science	39	72.0%

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.