Miller Place High School, Miller Place NY

Original Research by School Decision on Miller Place High School

Miller Place High School is a regular public high school serving grades nine through twelve in Miller Place, a quiet, tree-shaded hamlet on Long Island's North Shore that has developed from farmland into suburban residential neighborhoods. The school sits in a community of moderate size and relative affluence, where new construction remains active and housing values have appreciated steadily.

The high school enrolls a student body that is predominantly white, with smaller populations of Hispanic, Asian, and Black students. A modest share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, suggesting families across a range of economic backgrounds. The school does not currently report data on students with disabilities or English learners, so the scope of specialized support services is unclear from available sources. No state testing results or graduation rates were provided in the data, making it impossible to characterize academic outcomes or college and career readiness in concrete terms.

Miller Place Union Free School District serves the community across four schools and has invested in modernizing facilities through a bond referendum approved by voters in recent years. This capital investment funded air conditioning, air filtration upgrades and other improvements across all district buildings, plus a new gymnasium at the district's primary school. These facility upgrades shape the physical learning environment without requiring separate expenditures in year-to-year operating budgets.

Miller Place itself remains largely car-dependent, centered around Route 25A with its mix of local shops, restaurants and strip malls. Residents access beaches and trails through county parks, including Cordwood Landing within the historic district and the North Shore Rail Trail. A planned mixed-use development project for Route 25A aims to create a more walkable downtown node, though that remains in the planning phase. For wider entertainment and dining options, residents typically drive to nearby Port Jefferson. Public transportation options are limited; the nearest railroad stations are in Port Jefferson and Stony Brook. The hamlet's character is distinctly suburban, with tree-lined residential streets and both older colonial-era architecture in the historic district and newer single-family homes and condo complexes throughout. Employment for residents is distributed across the region, with some commuting to Stony Brook University or Brookhaven National Laboratory nearby.

High school program data beyond basic enrollment were not available in the records provided, so details about course breadth, dual-credit options, extracurricular offerings or specific academic pathways cannot be described. A parent interested in understanding the academic structure, graduation requirements, advanced coursework, or support services would benefit from contacting the school directly or visiting its website to fill in those gaps. State testing performance and graduation outcomes were similarly missing, making direct academic comparison to other county high schools impossible from this data alone.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=99%Cohort of 213 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

16 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

23 tested

78.3%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

13 tested

76.9%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

19 tested · Grade 10

68.4%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

31 tested

87.1%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

25 tested

88.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

25 tested

60.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

11 tested

90.9%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

12 tested · Grade 10

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Psychology

33 tested

81.8%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

65 tested · Grade 10

87.7%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Studio Art Drawing

9 tested

55.6%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

65 tested

73.8%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

73 tested

84.9%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

9 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

35 tested

91.4%

scored 3 or higher

World History

81 tested · Grade 10

88.9%

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	223	91.0%
Social Studies	186	91.0%
Science	182	88.0%
Math	161	94.0%

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.