| Jericho Senior High School | |
| Motto: | "Excellence in education begins here." |
| Established: | 1959 |
| Type: | Comprehensive high school |
| District: | Jericho Union Free School District |
| Grades: | 9-12 |
| Principal: | David Cohen and Joseph Prisinzano |
| Enrollment: | 1,114 (as of 2018-19)[1] |
| Faculty: | 106.73 FTEs |
| Ratio: | 10.44 |
| Address: | 99 Cedar Swamp Road |
| City: | Jericho |
| State: | New York 11753 |
| Country: | United States |
| Coordinates: | 40.7986°N 73.5428°W |
| Campus Type: | Suburban |
| Mascot: | Jayhawks |
| Colors: | Blue and gold |
| Homepage: | School website |
Jericho Senior High School (JHS) is an American comprehensive public high school in the hamlet of Jericho in Nassau County, New York. It is the only high school in the Jericho Union Free School District. Jericho High School is nationally renowned as a top-performing public high school, and as of 2024 it was ranked #104 in the United States by U.S. News and World Report,[2] the highest ranking for any non-charter, non-magnet suburban high school in the country. The school opened in 1959.
As of the 2022-2023 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,195 students and 104 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1. There were 155 students (13% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch.
For the 2018-2019 school year, the Jericho Union Free School District spent a total of $121 million for a projected number of 3200 students, of which 1124 were students of Jericho High School. $37,600 was spent per student, which is US $451,200 for a student studying for 12 years from grade 1 to 12.[3]
In the 2011-2012 school year, Jericho Public School district spent a total of US$111,962,251 for 3026 students of K-12, of which 1202 were Jericho High School students. US$37,000 was spent per student, which is US$444,000 for a student studying for 12 years from grade 1 to 12.
In Newsweek magazine's 2015 list of the Top 500 American High Schools, Jericho High School was ranked 27th in the U.S. and third in New York State.[4]
Jericho High School is also consistently ranked in the top 100 high schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Reports Best High Schools ranking,[5] as well as in the top 50 of Niche's Best Public High Schools Ranking.[6]
The school offers many Advanced Placement classes and St. John's University college credit classes, has among the highest average SAT scores in the country, and spends more money on each student than nearly all other Long Island schools. Many Jericho graduates go on to the Ivy League institutions, NYU, SUNY, and many other first and second tier national institutions.
Jericho High School offers many clubs and academic extracurricular activities. Jericho also has science and social science research programs, consistently producing ISEF and Regeneron STS semifinalists, as well as a few Regeneron STS finalists.[9] Many students have won the Brain Bee held at LIU Post. The Debate Team has placed in the New York State Forensic League Championship Tournament in the Lincoln Douglas and Public Forum categories. The Science Olympiad team has placed within the top six at national invitationals, such as the Rice University Invitational, and consistently qualified for the New York State Tournament. The Drama club does two shows per year, one drama and one musical, and is known as the Harlequin Players. In 2023, the Drama Club was chosen by Disney Theatrical, as New York's sole winner, to produce the full Disney Broadway version of 'Frozen'. [10] Other clubs include Peer Tutoring Club, Blue Key Club, Jericho Comedy Club, Sunrise Club, Kids Helping Pets Club, Model UN, Model Congress, Future Business Leaders of America, GSA, Environmental Club, JerEcho, Girls in Engineering, SouperHeroes, and the Jericho Engineering Club.
The sports teams are known as the Jayhawks. Jericho High School has long-standing rivalries with neighboring Great Neck South High School, Long Beach High School, Hicksville High School, Syosset High School and Roslyn High School. The 2011, 2012, and 2019 boys' varsity soccer teams won the New York State Championship.[11]
In the 2022-2023 school year, the number of students enrolled were:[12]
In the 2023-24 school year, the student body was 62.4% Asian, 30.0% White, and 3.5% Hispanic.[13]
Historically, the student body was largely Jewish. However, in recent years Jericho has seen exorbitant growth in its Asian American population, so much so that by 2020, Asians made up the majority of students in the Jericho Union Free School District.[14]