Summary:
Newfield Central School District in New York contains a single high school, Newfield Senior High School, which serves grades 9-12. While the school has some positive metrics, such as a relatively high graduation rate and strong performance on the English Language Arts Regents exam, it struggles in several other academic areas compared to state averages.
Newfield Senior High School has a four-year graduation rate of 84.3%, which is slightly below the state average. However, the school's dropout rate of 4.5% is higher than the state average. Academically, the school performs well above the state average on the English Language Arts exam, with 90.74% of students proficient or better. But it struggles significantly in other subject areas, such as Chemistry (26.67% proficient), Earth Science (22.22% proficient), and Geometry (33.33% proficient), all of which are well below state averages.
Newfield Central School District, which includes Newfield Senior High School, is ranked 739 out of 874 school districts in New York and is rated 1 out of 5 stars by SchoolDigger. This suggests that the challenges faced by Newfield Senior High School are not isolated but rather reflective of broader systemic issues within the district. The school's high percentage of students (41.71%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch indicates that it serves a population with significant economic disadvantages, which may contribute to the lower academic performance and higher dropout rates observed.
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