Oyster Bay High School, Oyster Bay NY

Original Research by School Decision on Oyster Bay High School

Oyster Bay High School is a small four-year public high school serving grades nine through twelve in a historic waterfront hamlet on Long Island's North Shore. The school sits within the Oyster Bay-East Norwich Central School District, a three-school system that operates Roosevelt Elementary (K-2), James H. Vernon Middle School (3-6), and Oyster Bay High School (7-12), all anchored in or near the downtown rather than on remote campuses.

The school enrolls about four hundred students, distributed evenly across the four grades. About a quarter of the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. Roughly three-fifths of the student body is white, about a quarter is Hispanic, and the remainder includes Asian, Black, multiracial, and Native American students. The proportion of students with disabilities and English learners was not reported, so a parent may want to ask the school directly about those populations.

State testing data for this school was not available in the records reviewed. Graduation rate information was also not provided. Without those benchmarks, the academic profile cannot be characterized from publicly reported results. A parent interested in how the school performs on state assessments or how completions fare should request that information directly from the school or district.

Oyster Bay High School received tangible facility investment through a voter-approved capital bond completed in recent years. The bond-funded improvements included a renovated library, new classrooms, and a new turf field, which suggests the district prioritized updating spaces and recreational infrastructure. The district has also launched state-funded universal pre-kindergarten beginning in 2023-24 and expanded elementary offerings in robotics and coding, signaling a push into those skill areas at the younger grades.

The immediate community is walkable, compact, and historically oriented. Downtown Oyster Bay features a mix of restaurants, shops, galleries, and historic buildings concentrated along Main Street and a few surrounding roads. The hamlet's maritime heritage, centered on oyster farming in the harbor, gives it a distinct character from strictly residential Gold Coast communities to the west. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park sits waterfront, with a public beach, courts, fields, and play areas. The LIRR Oyster Bay station, the eastern terminus of the Oyster Bay Branch, sits a short walk away across from the park and provides rail access to New York City.

Housing in the hamlet is expensive. Median home values in the zip code are well above the state benchmark, and the market has seen modest appreciation recently. Rental costs are also substantial. Most homes are single-family residences, and development in the hamlet itself has been modest in recent years, with the focus on revitalization and historic preservation rather than new housing construction. This is a residential context where families have already secured housing; turnover and new in-migration tend to be limited.

The district sits in Nassau County. Comparison metrics against other Nassau County districts were not available in the data, so the school's performance position within the county is not characterized here. Program offerings beyond what the capital improvements and pre-K expansion suggest were not detailed in the available information. A parent considering Oyster Bay High School would benefit from speaking directly with the school about course breadth, electives, Advanced Placement or honors pathways, career or dual-credit offerings, athletic and arts programs, and support for students with specific academic or social needs.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=95%Cohort of 114 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

20 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

16 tested

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

14 tested

71.4%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

17 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

35.3%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

15 tested · Grade 10

33.3%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

62 tested · Grade 10

72.6%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

9 tested

55.6%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

17 tested

58.8%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

6 tested

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

11 tested

63.6%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

19 tested · Grade 10

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Human Geography

12 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

21 tested · Grade 10

28.6%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

39 tested

89.7%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Spanish Language and Culture

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Studio Art Drawing

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

20 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

13 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

44 tested

84.1%

scored 3 or higher

World History

43 tested · Grade 10

72.1%

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	112	86.0%
Social Studies	104	90.0%
Science	40	60.0%
Math	38	50.0%

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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 7Lower-income5%Higher-income40%35 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income42%Higher-income67%25 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 7Lower-income6%Higher-income53%48 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income20%Higher-income0%20 pp gap