Gen Douglas Macarthur Senior High School, Levittown NY

Original Research by School Decision on Gen Douglas Macarthur Senior High School

General Douglas MacArthur Senior High School sits in Levittown, an unincorporated residential community in western Nassau County built after World War II as the first large-scale mass-produced suburb in the United States. The school serves grades nine through twelve and enrolls roughly twelve hundred students from the Levittown Union Free School District, which is one of about sixty districts in Nassau County.

The school's student body is predominantly white, with Hispanic and Asian students each representing meaningful shares of enrollment. About one in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The data available on the school's academic profile, state testing results, and four-year graduation rate was not provided, so a parent would need to request those metrics directly from the district or school to understand current proficiency levels and completion rates. Without those figures, the school's standing against other Nassau County schools cannot be assessed from this information.

Levittown itself is a car-oriented, built-out suburban community where most residents own their homes. Commercial life concentrates along the Hempstead Turnpike corridor; residential blocks feature tree-lined streets, neighborhood parks, ballfields, and seasonal swimming pools that date to the community's original design. The area is served by the Nassau Inter-County Express bus system along the Turnpike, and the Long Island Rail Road stations at Wantagh, Bethpage, and Hicksville provide rail access to Manhattan for commuting residents. The community is zoned to preserve its original low-density layout, which limits commercial intrusion but also constrains new housing growth; recent change has come through infill and redevelopment of vacant properties rather than new subdivisions.

Housing in the zip code where MacArthur sits has appreciated modestly over the past year and remains well above the state and national median. Homes in the area rent and sell at prices that reflect a middle-to-upper-middle-class suburb, though monthly rent-to-income ratios run moderately high at roughly four in ten for the typical household, and monthly mortgage payments for a median-priced home would exceed monthly rent by a substantial margin. The local real estate market shows moderate supply relative to demand, meaning homes are available but inventory remains relatively competitive.

The Levittown Union Free School District proposed a budget increase for the 2026-27 school year, signaling continued growth in operating costs that families would experience through school taxes. The district recently completed a new track and field facility at one of its middle schools, reflecting ongoing capital investment in infrastructure.

A parent or resident considering MacArthur would be choosing a school in a stable, predominantly owner-occupied neighborhood with established civic anchors and school infrastructure, but would need to obtain the school's own testing results, graduation rates, program offerings, and recent course access data to make a full comparison with other high schools in the region.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

95.0%Cohort of 335 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

22 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

14 tested

71.4%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

21 tested

71.4%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

9 tested

77.8%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

13 tested

76.9%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

34 tested · Grade 10

52.9%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

15 tested · Grade 10

53.3%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

28 tested · Grade 9

78.6%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

33 tested · Grade 10

60.6%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

19 tested

78.9%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

9 tested

77.8%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

20 tested · Grade 10

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Human Geography

89 tested

38.2%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

16 tested

87.5%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

45 tested · Grade 10

42.2%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

125 tested · Grade 10

90.4%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

French Language and Culture

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

27 tested

77.8%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Studio Art Drawing

7 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

131 tested

51.9%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

86 tested

73.3%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

49 tested

91.8%

scored 3 or higher

World History

119 tested · Grade 10

79.0%

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	313	95.0%
Social Studies	298	98.0%
Math	249	91.0%
Science	249	84.0%

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.