Lawrence Senior High School, Cedarhurst NY

Original Research by School Decision on Lawrence Senior High School

Lawrence Senior High School serves just over eight hundred students in grades nine through twelve in Cedarhurst, a compact residential village on Long Island's South Shore. The school sits in a prosperous area where housing is expensive and the community has a long-established cultural identity centered on a walkable downtown corridor of shops and kosher businesses.

The student body reflects the neighborhood's demographics. More than two-thirds of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the enrollment is predominantly Hispanic with a substantial Black population and smaller Asian and white populations. The school is part of the Lawrence Union Free School District, a small, stable district that has held its property-tax levy flat for seven consecutive years while maintaining academic programming.

State testing data for the school was not available. The school does not appear in any published state assessment results for the grade levels tested (the state tests grades eight and below, but this is a high school); high school proficiency is measured through Regents examination results, which were not provided in the available data. Without state testing information, a reader cannot directly assess how students perform on common academic benchmarks. A parent may want to look into the school's performance on Regents exams and ask the school directly about graduation outcomes and college-placement rates.

The school's graduation rate and chronic absenteeism metrics were also not provided, so those dimensions remain opaque from the data on hand. The school does serve a range of grades nine through twelve, with enrollment distributed fairly evenly across all four years, plus a small number of ungraded students.

The housing market around the school is high-cost. Median home values in the Cedarhurst zip code are in the range of substantial six-figure prices, and the market shows modest growth year-over-year. Rents for apartments range from moderate to high depending on size. This is an affluent area with a competitive real-estate market, though the school's student body suggests considerable economic diversity, since a large majority of students qualify for subsidized lunch.

The district has undertaken significant capital improvements, including FEMA-funded seawall construction around the high school campus to address flood risk and phased renovations of HVAC systems and classrooms across district buildings. These upgrades indicate investment in the physical plant that families touring the school would see reflected in facility conditions.

The data leaves important questions unanswered: how students perform academically on state measures, whether graduation rates are strong, and what the college acceptance and career outcomes look like. A prospective family would want to request those specifics directly from the school and district to understand the academic pathway and outcomes this school provides.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

80.0%Cohort of 236 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

18 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

15 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

10 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

11 tested

45.5%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

14 tested · Grade 10

71.4%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

10 tested

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

8 tested

62.5%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

10 tested

20.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

10 tested

40.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

20 tested · Grade 10

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

22 tested

72.7%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

19 tested

31.6%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

30 tested

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Spanish Language and Culture

7 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art Drawing

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Literature and Comp

18 tested

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

24 tested

70.8%

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	200	71.0%
Social Studies	180	60.0%
Science	164	24.0%
Math	87	69.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · district not reported

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

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 34% · ▼ 34 pts below district

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

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · district not reported

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

This schoolLAWRENCE 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.