Hicksville High School, Hicksville NY

Original Research by School Decision on Hicksville High School

Hicksville High School is a large four-year public school in the heart of central Nassau County's commercial and residential zone, drawing from a diverse population across grade nine through twelve. The school serves a community where roughly half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the enrollment is split fairly evenly between Asian and Hispanic students, with smaller shares of White, Black, and other racial and ethnic groups. The school itself does not break down special education or English learner populations in the available data, so families seeking those details should ask the school directly.

The most striking aspect of Hicksville High's current academic picture is that state testing data for high school grades was not available for recent years, which is typical because New York does not administer state standardized tests at the high school level in the same way it does in middle grades. However, the school does sit within the Hicksville Union Free School District, which was designated by New York State as a Target District on the 2025-26 accountability list due to subpar academic performance identified at one of the district's elementary schools. This state-level flag is material information for families evaluating the full academic environment the district provides.

Hicksville High sits within a district experiencing fiscal strain. For the 2025-26 school year, the district pieced together a budget through a supermajority vote after a deficit threatened cuts to athletics, clubs, AP classes, fine arts, and the third-grade music program. The district offered an early retirement incentive to staff and made enrollment-driven class-size changes to balance finances. Additionally, one instructional period was eliminated for sixth- and seventh-grade students and replaced with a "success studio," directly reducing students' ability to choose electives outside the core curriculum. These changes signal ongoing pressure on the breadth of offerings parents might expect.

The town of Hicksville itself is undergoing significant transit-oriented development. The Long Island Rail Road station, one of Nassau County's most heavily used LIRR stations, is being modernized with completion expected in 2026. A major mixed-use development adjacent to the station broke ground in late 2023, bringing new housing, retail, and public space. Additional transit-oriented housing projects are advancing, and the town adopted downtown zoning in 2021 to encourage walkable, mixed-use development. The commercial district along major thoroughfares has long anchored the area's economy, and Cantiague Park offers recreational amenities including golf, skating, and swimming facilities.

The housing market in the Hicksville zip code shows steady activity. Home values are in the upper-mid range for the region, with monthly rents reflecting significant housing costs; affordability is tighter than the national benchmark and slightly above the state benchmark. The local market has seen modest inventory growth and some shift toward a seller's market as pending listings have declined year over year.

Families considering Hicksville High should understand it as a large suburban high school within a district managing budget constraints and state accountability oversight. The school's particular strengths and program offerings would be best explored through direct conversation with the building, particularly around honors and Advanced Placement course breadth, career and technical pathways, and how the district's recent budgetary decisions have shaped extracurricular and elective availability. The broader district context, including the state Target District designation and the curriculum changes at the middle grades that feed into the high school, are relevant to a family's full picture of what this educational environment offers.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

92.0%Cohort of 434 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

28 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

38 tested

57.9%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

34 tested

55.9%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

32 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

80 tested · Grade 10

78.8%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

77 tested

75.3%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

25 tested · Grade 10

92.0%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

27 tested

44.4%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

61 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

39.3%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

6 tested

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

30 tested

93.3%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

13 tested

69.2%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

54 tested · Grade 10

98.1%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Human Geography

14 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

64.3%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

54 tested

59.3%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

82 tested · Grade 10

85.4%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

94 tested

94.7%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Japanese Language and Culture

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

7 tested

42.9%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

7 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art Drawing

7 tested

85.7%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

98 tested

71.4%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

23 tested

82.6%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

5 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 3d Design

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

37 tested

78.4%

scored 3 or higher

World History

84 tested · Grade 10

94.0%

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	535	74.0%
Ela	492	75.0%
Science	276	59.0%
Math	237	68.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 0%

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

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 42% · ▼ 42 pts below district

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

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 0%

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

This schoolHICKSVILLE 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.