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Hempstead High School (New York)
Hempstead High School is a public high school located in Hempstead, New York, United States. It is the Hempstead Union Free School District's only high school.

As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,226 students and 116.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 19.2:1. There were 1,346 students (60.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 34 (1.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

History

In the early 1920s, students from surrounding towns attended high school in Hempstead. It was not until the late 1950s that the last of these school districts built their own high schools.

In July 1970, Hempstead High School was burned down under presumably suspicious circumstances only 20 minutes after summer school classes were dismissed for the day. By 1972, a new Hempstead High School was built and students returned to normal location for classes. A middle school was built on the site of the old high school.

In 2014, Hempstead schools came to the attention of the New York State Education Department after a school document was leaked. This document revealed that 33 Hispanic students had been signing in for attendance each morning, only to be told to return home because there was not classroom space for them. The state later found that the number of excluded students may have been as high as 59, and threatened to remove school officials if they did not implement reforms. In a 2015 agreement with the New York Attorney General, the school agreed to implement new enrollment procedures and hire an independent monitor.

Academics

Once a school of high academic, music and athletic standing from the early 1900s to the mid-1970s, the school experienced difficulties during a period of change in Hempstead and Nassau County between the 1980s and early 21st century. Regents examination scores in 2004 saw a relative improvement from 2003, though many classes such as Math A and English were still below the state average.

Extracurricular activities include a student government program. Hempstead's athletic teams compete in Class 1A of Section 8.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ School data for Hempstead High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
  2. ^ "Long Island Index: Interactive Map". www.longislandindexmaps.org. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  3. ^ ""Hempstead School Destroyed By Fire"The New York Times, July 25, 1970, p. 15". The New York Times. 25 July 1970. Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  4. ^ Mueller, Benjamin (2014-10-21). "Requirements Keep Young Immigrants Out of Long Island Classrooms". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  5. ^ Mueller, Benjamin (2015-02-19). "New York Compels 20 School Districts to Lower Barriers to Immigrants". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-03.
  6. ^ Sugarman, Julie (2021). "From Plyler to Sanctuary: U.S. Policy on Public School Access and Implications for Educators of Transnational Students". The students we share : preparing U.S. and Mexican educators for our transnational future. Patricia C. Gandara, Bryant Jensen. Albany. ISBN 978-1-4384-8324-5. OCLC 1244535296.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Bilello, Suzanne (September 7, 1989). "A New Start For Troubled District: Braced for crises in Hempstead". Newsday. pp. 5A – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ Bontemps, Alex; Fonvielle-Bontemps, Jacqueline; Driskell, David C. (1980). Forever Free : Art by African-American Women 1862-1980. Alexandria Virginia: Stephenson Incorporated.

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