Nyack Senior High School, Nyack NY

Original Research by School Decision on Nyack Senior High School

Nyack Senior High School serves roughly nine hundred students across four grades in a Hudson River village marked by a vibrant, walkable downtown and a mixed character of shops, galleries, and restaurants alongside residential neighborhoods. The school is located in a community actively investing in itself: the village has secured state funding for downtown revitalization, and the district has committed to facility upgrades including air conditioning, roof and boiler replacements, and a land purchase near the school for parking and open space.

The school's student body is diverse. About a third of students are Hispanic, more than a third are white, and the remainder represent a mix of Black, Asian, and multiracial backgrounds. A share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, placing the school in a community with real economic range.

State testing data for Nyack Senior High School was not available, and no information on graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, or other outcome measures appeared in the available records. This absence is typical for individual high schools when state-level data systems do not disaggregate school-by-school results or when the school has not independently published these figures. A parent investigating the school's academic performance would benefit from reaching out directly to the school or reviewing materials on the Nyack Union Free School District website to understand proficiency rates, college readiness metrics, and completion outcomes.

Nyack High sits within a district that has taken deliberate strategic steps. The district has shifted early literacy instruction toward science-of-reading approaches, a change that shapes how younger students learn to decode and comprehend text. The district has also managed tax increases thoughtfully, staying within the state's levy cap while funding facility improvements largely from reserves rather than new debt. In May 2024, voters approved two capital propositions that will fund future improvements without new borrowing, a signal of long-term planning that affects both school conditions and the property tax climate families face.

The community itself shapes the school environment. Nyack's downtown is a "Walker's Paradise" with a year-round Thursday farmers market, galleries, and street fairs that draw thousands of visitors. Memorial Park sits on the Hudson shoreline within walking distance. Direct bus service connects the village to the Port Authority in New York City. For a high school student, this means living in a place where civic life is compact and walkable rather than car-dependent, and where cultural activities and public spaces are woven into daily life.

Housing in the Nyack zip code carries a premium: median home values run well above the state average, and monthly rents are substantial relative to regional income. This shapes who can afford to live here and is a hard financial boundary for any family considering the district. The local economy is stable, with unemployment in line with national levels and median household income solid.

A parent or resident considering Nyack High should contact the school directly about its specific academic programs, course breadth, AP or honors offerings, college placement track record, and any special programming or extracurriculars. The available data speaks to the enrollment size, the diversity of the student body, and the district's facility and pedagogical commitments, but does not include the school's own performance metrics or program details. The school's location in an artsy, walkable village with strong civic anchors is a given; whether its curriculum and teaching culture match your family's needs requires a direct conversation with the school.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

92.0%Cohort of 276 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

15 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

5 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

6 tested · Grade 10

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

Precalculus

22 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

20 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

23 tested · Grade 10

91.3%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

27 tested · Grade 10

74.1%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

39 tested · Grade 10

76.9%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

50 tested · Grade 10

72.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

11 tested

81.8%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Macroeconomics

11 tested

81.8%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

11 tested

81.8%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

24 tested · Grade 10

54.2%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

38 tested · Grade 10

86.8%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

French Language and Culture

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

11 tested · Grade 10

63.6%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Studio Art Drawing

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

African American Studies

68 tested · Grade 10

88.2%

scored 3 or higher

Language and Comp

31 tested

83.9%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

35 tested

68.6%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

12 tested

41.7%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 3d Design

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

29 tested

82.8%

scored 3 or higher

World History

101 tested · Grade 10

91.1%

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	269	84.0%
Social Studies	241	85.0%
Math	132	100.0%
Science	84	37.0%

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.