Westhampton Beach Senior High School, Westhampton Beach NY

Original Research by School Decision on Westhampton Beach Senior High School

Westhampton Beach Senior High School serves grades nine through twelve in a community on Long Island's East End where housing prices are substantial and the real estate market is active. The school enrolls a mid-sized cohort, drawn from a community that is majority white, with a meaningful Hispanic population and smaller shares of Asian, Black, and multiracial students. About a quarter of enrolled students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a rate that reflects mixed economic circumstances within the attendance area.

State testing data and graduation rate information were not available for this school, a gap that limits visibility into academic outcomes by the standard metrics. The school's proficiency levels and year-to-year trends therefore cannot be characterized from publicly reported data. A parent or resident seeking a full picture of Westhampton Beach Senior High's academic performance would need to request that information directly from the school or district.

The school sits within the Westhampton Beach Union Free School District, which has undertaken sustained capital investment in its facilities. In fall 2022, voters approved a bond funding multi-year work across all three schools, including replacement of the athletic turf and track, additions to the athletic complex, high school hallway flooring, middle school roof and masonry repairs, and upgrades to electrical and HVAC systems. More recently, in October 2025, district voters again approved two additional capital improvement bond propositions, continuing a cycle of facilities spending that shapes the district's tax landscape.

At the instructional level, the district has adopted iReady learning curriculum at the elementary school and universal acceleration in earth science at the middle school, moves that reflect explicit choices about how students learn and progress. These curriculum decisions ripple through the pathway from middle to high school and establish an acceleration-friendly environment, though whether similar practices shape high school placement is not documented in available materials.

The Westhampton Beach area is characterized by high housing values and monthly rents that reflect a premium coastal and suburban Long Island location. Homes in the zip code are priced well above both state and national medians, and monthly rental costs are correspondingly elevated. The real estate market shows moderate supply and modest demand relative to recent history, with homes spending a moderate number of days on the market before sale.

The high school itself is housed in a regular public school building and serves its four grades without magnet designation or charter status. Course offerings, staffing levels, special education services, English learner support, attendance rates, and discipline data were not available in the data provided, so a parent looking into the school's program breadth, support capacity, or student conduct environment would need to inquire with the school directly. The school's position relative to other districts in Suffolk County cannot be drawn from the academic metrics, since those results were not reported.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

94.0%Cohort of 232 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

23 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

39 tested

64.1%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

49 tested

22.4%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

13 tested

69.2%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

16 tested · Grade 10

56.3%

scored 3 or higher

Precalculus

112 tested · Grade 10

95.5%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

30 tested · Grade 10

46.7%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

43 tested · Grade 9

65.1%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

26 tested · Grade 10

80.8%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

31 tested

83.9%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

40 tested

87.5%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

63 tested

96.8%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

81 tested · Grade 10

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Human Geography

123 tested · Grade 9

61.8%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

85 tested

78.8%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

75 tested · Grade 10

73.3%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

117 tested

82.1%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

French Language and Culture

22 tested

36.4%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

22 tested

77.3%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Studio Art Drawing

14 tested

85.7%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

72 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

33 tested

97.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

56 tested

71.4%

scored 3 or higher

World History

111 tested · Grade 10

61.3%

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
Ela	269	90.0%
Social Studies	250	90.0%
Math	230	69.0%
Science	58	91.0%

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.