Herricks High School, New Hyde Park NY

Original Research by School Decision on Herricks High School

Herricks High School serves grades 9 through 12 in New Hyde Park, a mixed-use village on Long Island where Jericho Turnpike functions as a busy retail corridor lined with shops, restaurants, and mixed-use buildings, alongside pockets of light industrial use. The school sits within the Herricks Union Free School District, which has recently pursued significant curricular and facility initiatives.

The school's enrollment is moderate in size, with a student body that is predominantly Asian, followed by a substantial white population, with smaller populations of Hispanic and other students. About a fifth of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Special education and English learner data are not available from the district's public reporting.

State assessment results at the high school level are not reported because New York does not administer standardized tests to grades 9 through 12; the state testing program covers only grades 3 through 8 and some early high school grades in specific subjects. This means academic performance cannot be evaluated through state proficiency metrics. A parent seeking to understand the school's academic trajectory would want to ask the school directly about course offerings, AP availability, college placement data, and internal performance metrics. The proficiency comparison data against other Nassau County districts shows a data gap for this reason and is not applicable to understanding Herricks High School's academic standing.

The district has reshaped its gifted and talented program, moving from test-score-only selection to a broader, multi-criteria model that includes parent input and extends opportunities to middle school students. This change carries through into high school through the district's "Portrait of a Graduate" framework—six core competencies centered on collaboration, communication, confidence, compassion, creative innovation, and critical thinking—that now guide curriculum and instruction across all grades. These are recent, substantive shifts in how the district thinks about academic growth and student development.

The district has also established capital reserve funds for facility improvements, including recent high school upgrades funded without new tax increases. Long Island Rail Road service through New Hyde Park station provides transit access, and the village has pursued station-area improvements and downtown revitalization work centered on the Jericho Turnpike business district.

Housing in the 11040 zip code is in the upper-middle range for the region. Median home values are substantial, with year-over-year appreciation in the low single digits. Median monthly rent is in the mid-range for Nassau County, and the price-to-income ratio is notably high, reflecting the gap between home prices and typical household incomes in the area. The rental market shows significantly higher costs relative to what a mortgage payment would be. Active housing inventory has grown modestly year-over-year, and median days on market has shortened, suggesting a shift toward somewhat faster sales velocity.

A parent or resident considering Herricks High School would be choosing a school in a solidly built-out suburban village with good transit access and a district that has been deliberate about broadening academic opportunity and centering students on a coherent set of learning competencies. The lack of high school state testing data means evaluating academic quality requires asking the school for specific information about course depth, college outcomes, and performance on whatever internal measures the school uses. The student body's composition and the area's economic profile would be relevant to understanding the peer environment and community context.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

98.0%Cohort of 321 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

25 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

121 tested

59.5%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

62 tested

95.2%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

43 tested

95.3%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

48 tested · Grade 10

97.9%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

90 tested · Grade 10

91.1%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

89 tested

97.8%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

32 tested

96.9%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

53 tested

71.7%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

128 tested · Grade 10

71.9%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

22 tested

40.9%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

43 tested

86.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Human Geography

99 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

97.0%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

145 tested

64.1%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

65 tested

53.8%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

203 tested

78.8%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

270 tested

81.9%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

46 tested · Grade 10

84.8%

scored 3 or higher

French Language and Culture

24 tested

54.2%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

75 tested · Grade 10

81.3%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

258 tested

67.4%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

85 tested

91.8%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

28 tested

92.9%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

57 tested

84.2%

scored 3 or higher

World History

311 tested · Grade 10

79.1%

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	397	97.0%
Social Studies	378	99.0%
Math	19	58.0%
Science	7	43.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 85% · ▼ 85 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 38 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 84% · ▼ 84 pts below district

▼ 48 pts below state median · ▼ 56 pts below county median

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 51% · ▼ 51 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

This schoolHERRICKS 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.