Jericho Senior High School, Jericho NY

Original Research by School Decision on Jericho Senior High School

Jericho Senior High School serves grades nine through twelve in the hamlet of Jericho, a suburban, predominantly residential community in Nassau County on Long Island's North Shore. The school is part of the Jericho Union Free School District, and its address on Cedar Swamp Road places it on a separated campus in keeping with the hamlet's car-oriented layout. Commuter rail to Manhattan runs from the neighboring Hicksville LIRR station rather than from Jericho itself, so families who commute to the city are typically driving to that connection.

The hamlet itself is publicly reported as affluent, built largely around single-family homes and organized into distinct residential sections. Commercial life runs along Jericho Turnpike, with the Jericho Quadrangle office park serving as a central business hub for professional and healthcare employers. Development in Jericho moves slowly and is often contested; a proposed hotel at the Jericho Commons site stalled after local opposition, and a separate transitional housing conversion drew litigation. This is a community where the housing stock is tightly held and home values sit well above both the New York State and national medians, with prices continuing to appreciate. The rental market is also steep, with estimated monthly rental costs consuming a very high share of a typical household's income by national standards. For families entering the market, the entry threshold is high.

On the academic side, the school's enrollment sits at a size that is mid-range for a four-year public high school, distributed fairly evenly across the four grade levels. State testing proficiency data was not available in the data provided, and the comparison metrics for graduation rate and chronic absenteeism were also absent, so it is not possible here to characterize those outcomes quantitatively. A parent who wants to assess academic performance would want to ask the school directly about Regents exam pass rates and graduation outcomes, since those are standard measures for New York high schools that this data did not surface.

What the program record does show is expansion in college and workforce pathways. Publicly reported information from the district indicates that AP course offerings have grown, including a new AP Business with Personal Finance course added for the coming school year. The school has also introduced a Clinical Healthcare dual-enrollment course connected to Northwell's MedVoyage program, which includes actual clinical rotations and a pathway to the EMT exam. That kind of credentialed, hands-on option alongside traditional Advanced Placement coursework gives students more than one way to build a meaningful high school record.

In terms of student composition, the enrollment is notably Asian-majority, with white students making up most of the remainder and other groups present in smaller shares. A modest fraction of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this well below the typical economic-need profile of most public high schools. Data on students with IEPs and English learners was not available in the data provided; families whose children receive specialized services would want to follow up with the district on program depth and staffing.

Fiscally, the Jericho Union Free School District is publicly reported to have been entirely debt-free since completing its final bond payment, with all capital improvements funded from accumulated reserves. Voters have repeatedly authorized reserve-funded projects covering bathrooms, windows, lighting, and other infrastructure across the district's buildings. For a homeowner, this means capital costs show up in the annual levy rather than in bond debt, and the tax structure has been stable. It also means the school buildings have been actively maintained in recent years.

The data does not include information on discipline rates, chronic absenteeism, or attendance patterns, so those dimensions of the school environment are gaps here rather than characterizations. A family relocating specifically for this school would benefit from visiting and asking the high school directly about course availability, special education services, and the day-to-day environment, since the academic outcome data that typically anchors such a judgment was not available for this profile.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

97.0%Cohort of 262 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

30 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

92 tested

53.3%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

84 tested · Grade 10

78.6%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

49 tested · Grade 10

81.6%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

131 tested · Grade 10

85.5%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

115 tested · Grade 10

82.6%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

122 tested · Grade 10

96.7%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

55 tested · Grade 10

92.7%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

72 tested

77.8%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

102 tested · Grade 10

74.5%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

11 tested

81.8%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

31 tested

87.1%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

20 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

192 tested · Grade 10

99.5%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Macroeconomics

163 tested

68.7%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

168 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

116 tested

72.4%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

153 tested

95.4%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

36 tested · Grade 10

72.2%

scored 3 or higher

French Language and Culture

32 tested

84.4%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

14 tested

42.9%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

67 tested

65.7%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

10 tested · Grade 10

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art Drawing

7 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

203 tested

80.3%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

82 tested

82.9%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

17 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 3d Design

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

135 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

World History

218 tested · Grade 10

89.0%

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
Ela	340	98.0%
Social Studies	319	100.0%
Science	84	99.0%
Math	23	52.0%

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.