Graduation numbers

One hundred eighty-two seniors graduated from Seaford High School this June.  At Wantagh High School, 221 graduated.  I counted 557 graduates on the Massapequa list on Patch.

The website of St. William the Abbot parish school shows 30 in caps and gowns.

Projected enrollment in various school districts

A chart in Newsday of 5.3.2018 presented various statistics about Nassau County public schools. Below are some sample enrollments. In the case of central school districts with separate elementary school districts (Sewanhaka, Valley Steam, Bellmore-Merrick), the number totals all K-12.

15,261 Sewanhaka
11,045 Bellmore-Merrick
9,327 Valley Stream
7,052 Levittown
6,741 Massapequa

2,856 Wantagh
2,262 Island Trees

2,243 Seaford
2,040 Locust Valley
1,353 Carle Place
1,169 East Rockaway

These are merely projected enrollments for the new school year.  New families sometimes arrive in late August, and some transfer to other schools or move away.

Seaford, NY, public school enrollment

In February, 2018, the enrollment at the Seaford, New York, public schools was approximately as listed in the first column below.  The second column are numbers from November, 2016.

            Feb., 2018                            Nov., 2016

Kindergarten   153                                  161
Grade 1             167                                 148
Grade 2             151                                 178
Grade 3             180                                 145
Grade 4             155                                 170
Grade 5             177                                 171
Grade 6             176                                 169
Grade 7             174                                 191
Grade 8             191                                 185
Grade 9             161                                 186
Grade 10           205                                 158
Grade 11           142                                 180
Grade 12           178                                 185

Figures from 2007 and 2012 may be found HERE.

Seaford NY public school enrollment

In November, 2016, the enrollment at the Seaford, New York, public schools was approximately this, grade-by-grade:

Kindergarten  161
Grade 1            148
Grade 2            178
Grade 3            145
Grade 4            170
Grade 5            171
Grade 6            169
Grade 7            191
Grade 8            185
Grade 9            186
Grade 10          158
Grade 11          180
Grade 12          185

Figures from 2007 and 2012 may be found HERE.

Some projected enrollments

On May 5, 2016, in a chart on school spending, Newsday reprinted the Estimated Enrollments for each school district in the coming September, as listed by the NYS Education Department. What follows is merely a selected comparison of enrollments for some of the school districts.

19,000 Brentwood, largest in Suffolk
17,028 Sewanaka incl. elem. districts
9,190 Valley Stream incl. elem. districts
7,899 Hempstead
7,897 Bellmore-Merrick incl. elem. districts
7,383 Levittown
7,277 Freeport
6,979 Massapequa
5,230 Hicksville
2,996 Wantagh
2,963 Plainedge
2,236 SEAFORD
2,100 Locust Valley
1,976 West Hempstead
1,735 East Williston, Wheatley
1,603 Oyster Bay, East Norwich
1,375 Carle Place
1,190 East Rockaway

Seaford Public School Enrollment

The first column below is the enrollment in January, 2007.
The second column is the enrollment of 12/21/2012.

Grade
K.	Unknown	179
Gr. 1	180	165
Gr. 2	190	170
Gr. 3	197	195
Gr. 4	205	182
Gr. 5	204	199
Gr. 6	226	163
Gr. 7	207	188
Gr. 8	227	204
Gr. 9	173	179
Gr. 10	220	202
Gr. 11	223	208
Gr. 12	173	199

The Seaford School District extends about three miles from Seaford Harbor north to Jerusalem Avenue.  North of Jerusalem Avenue there is more than a mile of the Seaford postal zone that is not in the school district.

East-west along Merrick Road, the school district runs about 1.2 miles from near Cedar Creek to Seaford Creek at Tackapausha. East-west at the railroad, the extent is about 0.6 miles.
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The other day (11.18.2016) I met a graduate of the Seaford High School class of 1965.  He said his graduating class numbered 320.  In vast parts of Nassau County that had farms or vacant land in the early 1940's, there was a housing boom through the 1950's that caused a peak in high school enrollment in the 1960's.  By the 1970's, districts were dismissing staff and closing schools.