Centereach High School, Centereach NY

Original Research by School Decision on Centereach High School

Centereach High School is a public school serving grades 9 through 12 in Middle Country Central School District, located in the residential Suffolk County hamlet of Centereach on Long Island. The school enrolls a student body drawn from a mixed community: about half the students are white, with substantial representation from Hispanic, Asian, and Black families. Around a quarter to a third of the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a broad socioeconomic band.

The enrollment sits at a mid-sized level for the grade band, distributed fairly evenly across the four years of high school. The demographic composition reflects a moderately diverse Long Island suburb, though state proficiency data for high school grades was not available, so the school's academic performance cannot be characterized from standardized measures. No graduation rate data appeared in the records provided. A parent may want to look into what the school reports about college enrollment, career pathways, and graduation outcomes through the school or district directly.

Centereach sits within a settled suburban landscape built mostly of single-family homes along the Middle Country Road corridor, a car-dependent area with minimal pedestrian walkability and limited transit. The surrounding economy is driven by chain retail and nearby institutions such as Stony Brook University rather than local job centers. Housing prices in the area are moderate to substantial for Long Island, with a median home value in the mid-range for the county and monthly rents proportionately high. The property tax environment is a real consideration: the district has adopted consecutive annual tax-levy increases staying within the state cap, a steady upward cost families would face as long-term residents.

A differentiator for the district is its free Universal Pre-K program, available to all four-year-olds and including a competitive full-day option said to be one of the largest on the island. That asset comes lower in the K-12 path, but it is one place where Middle Country differs from most neighboring districts.

State assessment data for the grade levels this school serves was not provided, making it impossible to assess proficiency or progress. The comparison position against other Suffolk County districts on measures that were available showed bottom-quartile performance on an overall proficiency index, though that index was built from a limited data set. Without results for grades 9 through 12 or graduation and college-going metrics, a fuller picture of the school's academic pathway requires a conversation with the school itself about curriculum breadth, post-secondary outcomes, and the support systems in place for students with different college and career aims.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

92.0%Cohort of 393 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

25 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

61 tested

80.3%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

15 tested

86.7%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

10 tested

30.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

14 tested · Grade 10

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

8 tested

62.5%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

69 tested · Grade 10

56.5%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

25 tested · Grade 10

68.0%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

24 tested · Grade 10

45.8%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

10 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

12 tested

91.7%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

49 tested · Grade 10

93.9%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Macroeconomics

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

21 tested

76.2%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

76 tested

65.8%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Art History

10 tested

30.0%

scored 3 or higher

Music Theory

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

51 tested

58.8%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

16 tested

81.3%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

11 tested

72.7%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 3d Design

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

16 tested

93.8%

scored 3 or higher

World History

51 tested · Grade 10

84.3%

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	380	83.0%
Ela	337	85.0%
Science	290	41.0%
Math	29	21.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · district not reported

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 39% · ▼ 38 pts below district

▼ 48 pts below state median · ▼ 44 pts below county median

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · district not reported

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

This schoolMIDDLE COUNTRY CENTRAL 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.