Walt Whitman High School, Huntington Station NY

Original Research by School Decision on Walt Whitman High School

Walt Whitman High School is a regular public high school serving grades nine through twelve in Huntington Station, a densely settled residential hamlet on Long Island's North Shore. The school is part of the South Huntington Union Free School District, which operates seven schools across the area and is among the larger employers in the community.

The school enrolls a student population of nearly two thousand, distributed roughly evenly across the four grades. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with white, Black, and Asian students making up smaller portions. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic diversity of the community and the catchment area. Data on students with Individualized Education Plans and English learners was not available.

State testing data for this school was not reported, which means proficiency results in mathematics, English Language Arts, and science are not publicly available. This appears to reflect the fact that state assessments in these subjects are administered in grades below the high school level. As a result, there is no academic performance comparison available against other districts in Suffolk County. A graduation rate was not provided in the data; whether this reflects a reporting gap or indicates that the metric was not available could not be determined from the documents provided.

The school sits on a suburban campus on West Hills Road, away from the commercial downtown that clusters around the Long Island Rail Road station and New York Avenue. Huntington Station itself is undergoing downtown revitalization, with publicly reported state funding supporting mixed-use development, affordable housing, streetscape improvements, and pedestrian connections to the station. The broader area is characterized as car-dependent outside the immediate downtown, though the LIRR provides commuter access to New York City and major employers like Northwell Health and the school district itself anchor local job markets.

Housing in the zip code is moderately valued, with the median home value in the range typical for suburban Long Island communities. Monthly rents are also in the mid-range for the region. The housing market shows more active supply than demand, and mortgage rates are standard.

The district itself is in transition. Effective September 2026, the district is reconfiguring its grade assignments and converting one facility into a Pre-K center, ending a lottery-based Pre-K admissions process and opening publicly-funded Pre-K to all families in the district. Voters also approved a Capital Reserve Fund to finance future facility improvements without separate borrowing. These changes are likely to reshape which buildings serve which grades and how early-childhood access functions going forward.

Parent-specific program offerings, staffing, attendance data, course access details, and civil rights indicators for this particular school were not included in the available information, so a parent may want to contact the school directly or visit its website to learn about AP courses, career pathways, clubs, support services, and other student resources.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

92.0%Cohort of 505 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

28 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

32 tested

62.5%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

15 tested

73.3%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

9 tested · Grade 10

44.4%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

24 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

54.2%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

35 tested · Grade 10

54.3%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

39 tested

69.2%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

25 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

38 tested

81.6%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

11 tested

72.7%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

25 tested

40.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

26 tested

80.8%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

48 tested · Grade 10

95.8%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

118 tested · Grade 10

59.3%

scored 3 or higher

Human Geography

94 tested · Grade 9

70.2%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

121 tested

41.3%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

42 tested · Grade 10

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

192 tested

80.2%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

French Language and Culture

13 tested

46.2%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

8 tested

37.5%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

85 tested · Grade 10

88.2%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Art History

15 tested · Grade 10

26.7%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art Drawing

7 tested

57.1%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

120 tested

65.0%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

29 tested

89.7%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

6 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 3d Design

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

137 tested

81.0%

scored 3 or higher

World History

27 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
Social Studies	538	80.0%
Ela	531	87.0%
Science	286	84.0%
Math	55	22.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 21% · ▼ 21 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 26% · ▼ 26 pts below district

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

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 32% · ▼ 32 pts below district

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

This schoolSOUTH HUNTINGTON UNION FREE 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.