# VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362952003980`
- **School name**: VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
- **Location**: VALLEY STREAM, NY 11580
- **Address**: 135 FLETCHER AVE
- **District**: VALLEY STREAM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3629520`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 10–12
- **Coordinates**: 40.67050, -73.70030
- **Phone**: (516)561-4410
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7912214 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Stream_Central_High_School
- **Founded**: 1928

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,121
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 84
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Attendance: 4
  - HS CCCR: 4
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Core Performance: 4
  - HS Weight Performance: 3
  - HS Grad Rate: 4
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 99.0% (cohort of 364)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 334)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 338

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.8% (28 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.2% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 8.2% (92 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 30.4%
- **Black/African American**: 20.9%
- **Asian**: 37.0%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 8.2%
- **Pacific Islander**: 1.6%
- **Two or more races**: 1.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 44.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 13.1% — 147 students
- **English Learners**: 0.9% — 10 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 111 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 4 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 2 students
- **Autism**: 1 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $31,327
- **Federal share**: $1,267
- **State + local share**: $30,060
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,119
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $31,168,970
- **Federal share**: 10.1%
- **State share**: 28.9%
- **Local share**: 61.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $16,533,082

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $77,225
- **Poverty rate**: 4.9%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.2%
- **Unemployment**: 2.7%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,594
- **Foreign-born residents**: 39.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.1 miles (PENINSULA BOULEVARD GROUNDWATER PLUME)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 21
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.62 miles (FORMER ELMONT WELDING SHOP)

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 6.82155 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 7.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **VALLEY STREAM MEMORIAL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)
- **WHEELER AVENUE SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)
- **SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)
- **BROOKLYN AVENUE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)
- **CLEARSTREAM AVENUE SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.18%)

### graduation rate
- **SCHOLARS' ACADEMY** — 8.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)
- **W TRESPER CLARKE HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)
- **ROSLYN HIGH SCHOOL** — 9.0 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)
- **VILLAGE SCHOOL** — 9.4 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)
- **WANTAGH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 9.9 mi away, 100% (this school: 99%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/valley-stream-central-high-school-valley-stream/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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