Kings Park High School, Kings Park NY

Original Research by School Decision on Kings Park High School

Kings Park High School serves students in grades nine through twelve in this North Shore Long Island suburb, a tightly-knit residential hamlet in the Town of Smithtown centered on a main commercial corridor along Route 25A and anchored by a busy LIRR station. The school draws from a community known for residential stability, where families establish roots and stay for decades. The school's enrollment is stable at roughly that scale for its grade band, with a student body that skews predominantly white and a small share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The school's demographic composition reflects the broader character of the hamlet, where residents tend toward older age and where housing values are substantial.

The district serving this school, Kings Park Central, is navigating enrollment decline at the middle-school level, a trend that has prompted staffing reductions and signals ongoing structural changes to the district. For high school families, this context is important: it suggests demographic pressure across the K-12 pipeline and raises questions about long-term program and course offerings that a parent may want to explore directly with the school. The district's budget continues to rise, with tax-levy increases held within state limits, reflecting the ongoing property-tax costs for families in this area.

Academic performance data at the high school level was not available, so it is not possible to characterize how students perform on state assessments, what proficiency rates are, or how the school compares to neighboring districts on those measures. State assessments do not test high school grades at the level of individual schools in the way they do elementary and middle grades, which explains this gap; the data simply does not exist in the public record for this entity. A parent seeking to understand academic outcomes would want to ask the school directly about course rigor, AP and honors course breadth, graduation rates, college placement, and how the school measures student progress.

The school is a regular public high school without charter or magnet status, meaning it serves its assigned geographic attendance area rather than drawing students by application. Kings Park High School sits alongside the other schools of the district in separate campus locations across the hamlet rather than in the downtown cluster near the LIRR station and Main Street.

Housing in Kings Park reflects a moderately expensive Long Island market, with home values in the mid-range for the broader region. The real estate market has shown modest appreciation and some softening in transaction velocity, with fewer pending sales than a year ago; the median days on market has shortened, suggesting reasonable turnover. Rental properties exist in the area, including newer multi-family communities, though the hamlet remains predominantly owner-occupied single- and two-family homes. A family considering this area should understand that property taxes fund most school operations, and the district's budget trajectory will affect annual costs.

The community around the school is defined by abundant parkland, walkable downtown amenities concentrated around Main Street, and an active civic life anchored by the LIRR station, the Smithtown Library branch, recreational facilities like the Superior Ice Rink, and state parks including Sunken Meadow and Nissequogue River. Kings Park is in the middle of a downtown revitalization initiative that began construction in spring 2025, bringing streetscape upgrades, new housing, and mixed-use development around the station. This growth is reshaping the hamlet's character, which matters to families because it signals both economic investment and ongoing change to the physical environment where residents live and attend school.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=99%Cohort of 279 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

27 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

30 tested

86.7%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

11 tested

72.7%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

22 tested

68.2%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

32 tested

93.8%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

16 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

38 tested

78.9%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

8 tested

62.5%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

8 tested

37.5%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

13 tested

92.3%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

30 tested · Grade 10

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Human Geography

28 tested · Grade 10

96.4%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

52 tested · Grade 10

84.6%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

82 tested · Grade 10

93.9%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Italian Language and Culture

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

15 tested

93.3%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art Drawing

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

48 tested

70.8%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

52 tested

96.2%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

86 tested

94.2%

scored 3 or higher

World History

68 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

91.2%

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	221	93.0%
Ela	195	93.0%
Science	124	82.0%
Math	19	47.0%

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.