The Wheatley School
The Wheatley School is a public high school serving grades 8 through 12 located in Old Westbury, New York and part of the East Williston Union Free School District. The school district encompasses all of East Williston and parts of Mineola, Albertson, Old Westbury, and Roslyn Heights.
The Wheatley School Front Entrance
As of the 2018-19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 711 students and 63.87 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.13:1. There were 37 students (5.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 1 student (0.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Alumni
Business
- Daniel Schwartz - CEO of Burger King
Academia
- Steven Rubenstein - anthropologist
- Anita Silvers - philosopher, interested in medical ethics, bioethics, feminism, disability studies
- Dan Weiss - president of Haverford College
Culture, film, radio and television
- Rick Berman - executive producer of several of the Star Trek television series
- Todd Glickman - radio meteorologist
- Rick Hoffman - actor
- Winnie Holzman - creator of My So Called Life, writer of thirtysomething and Wicked
- Carol Leifer - Seinfeld writer, comedian
- Dave Rothenberg - sports radio host, ESPN
- Steven Starr - filmmaker, media activist
Fashion
- Carol Alt - model/actress/author
Journalism
- Mitchell Stephens - journalist and professor of journalism and mass communications at New York University
Literature
- Stephanie Klein - blogger and writer
- Nicole Krauss - writer
- Todd Strasser - writer
Medicine
- Stefan P. Kruszewski - clinical and forensic psychiatrist, fraud investigator
- Bradley Feuer - Chief Surgeon, Florida Highway Patrol
Music
- Ned Lagin - musician
Public Policy, Law, and Government
- Arthur Engoron - Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County
- Ian H. Solomon - Dean of Frank Batten School at the University of Virginia, former Executive Director of the World Bank.
Sports
- Mike Masters - professional soccer player
- Carlos Mendes - professional soccer player
- Shep Messing - professional soccer player
- Larry Nagler (born 1940) – tennis player
