Great Neck School District

The Great Neck School District is a comprehensive community public school district primarily serving students in Great Neck, New York. It also serves students in some parts of Manhasset and New Hyde Park. It is Union Free School District Number 7 in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island.

About 6,399 students, grades K-12, attend the Great Neck Public Schools. On School Election Day, May 19, 2015, the voters of this district passed a budget of $216,697,754.

As of the 2015-16 school year, the district's ten schools had a total enrolment of 6,399 students and 585.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 10.7.

There are three high schools: North High School, with an alternative program, Community School; South High School; and The Village School, a small alternative high school. There are also two middle schools, four elementary schools, and a nursery school.

Declining student population through the 1970s and 1980s [2] resulted in a reduction in the number of operating elementary schools from eleven in 1954 to only four today. The previously operational schools included:

The district is accredited the second best school district in Nassau County behind the Jericho Union Free School District, it performs better than the Syosset Central School District and its rival, the Manhasset Union Free School District, both being in Long Island. Also, it is ranked 5th best in New York State and eleventh best in the country, just falling behind Chappaqua Central School District in Westchester County. In this school district, 76 % of students are considered proficient in reading and mathematics.

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