Wellington C Mepham High School, Bellmore NY

Original Research by School Decision on Wellington C Mepham High School

Wellington C. Mepham High School is a public secondary school serving grades nine through twelve in Bellmore, a built-out suburban hamlet on Long Island's South Shore. The school serves a student body of roughly a thousand students, with enrollment distributed fairly evenly across the four grades.

The school sits within the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, which spans multiple communities and maintains a stable financial structure. The district's budgets have grown steadily while remaining within the state tax-levy cap, a pattern that signals predictable property-tax impact for homeowners. Recently, voters approved both a capital reserve fund and a Kennedy High School facilities upgrade in 2024, creating dedicated funding for infrastructure improvements over the coming decade. The district has also implemented a 1:1 Chromebook initiative across all grades seven through twelve, embedding device-based learning across secondary education at home and in school.

Bellmore itself is a small, family-oriented community of middle and upper-middle-class residential character. Housing is nearly all single-family, ranging from older dwellings near the LIRR station through post-World War II suburban housing to upscale waterfront developments. The median home value in the area is high, and the market has seen modest appreciation, with activity concentrated in single-family rebuilds and teardowns rather than new subdivisions, given the hamlet's fully built-out footprint. The Bellmore LIRR station on the Babylon Branch provides transit to Manhattan in under an hour, anchoring the community's suburban connectivity.

The student population at Mepham is predominantly white, with a meaningful Asian population and smaller Hispanic and Black populations. About a fifth of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, suggesting moderate economic diversity within a generally affluent community setting.

State assessment data for the school was not available, nor were four-year graduation rates, chronic absenteeism figures, or other outcome metrics that would ordinarily position the school against peer districts in Nassau County. The absence of these metrics reflects data gaps rather than weakness; a parent would want to request testing results, graduation data, and comparative performance information directly from the school or district to understand Mepham's academic standing. The school's program offerings and staffing profile were similarly not available in the data provided.

Bellmore's civic life centers on Newbridge Road Park, a year-round facility with pools, an ice rink, athletic fields, and walking paths, alongside two public libraries. The downtown along Bedford Avenue offers a walkable village shopping experience with independent boutiques and family restaurants, distinct from the car-oriented strip retail along Merrick Road. The community's proximity to canals and waterfront areas, paired with its small-town feel despite suburban density, shapes daily life in a way many families actively seek. A parent considering Mepham would benefit from visiting the school and district website to review course catalogs, AP offerings, career and technical programs, and direct comparisons to other Nassau County high schools where available.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

98.0%Cohort of 302 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

29 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

39 tested

59.0%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

35 tested

85.7%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

13 tested

38.5%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

23 tested · Grade 10

78.3%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

16 tested · Grade 10

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

49 tested · Grade 10

81.6%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

39 tested

94.9%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

24 tested

79.2%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

46 tested

45.7%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

8 tested

87.5%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

18 tested

94.4%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

21 tested · Grade 10

85.7%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

9 tested · Grade 10

55.6%

scored 3 or higher

Human Geography

14 tested · Grade 10

21.4%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

39 tested

76.9%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

35 tested

88.6%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

98 tested

70.4%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

130 tested

90.8%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

14 tested

28.6%

scored 3 or higher

French Language and Culture

11 tested

63.6%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

11 tested

63.6%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

39 tested

87.2%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Studio Art Drawing

15 tested

86.7%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

194 tested

56.2%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

86 tested

77.9%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

19 tested

94.7%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 3d Design

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

33 tested

90.9%

scored 3 or higher

World History

100 tested · Grade 10

83.0%

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
Science	336	84.0%
Social Studies	307	94.0%
Math	299	87.0%
Ela	284	96.0%

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.