Hempstead High School (New York)
| Hempstead High School | |
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| Address | |
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201 President Street Hempstead, New York United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Principal | Dr. Stephen Strachan |
| Faculty | 116.0 FTEs |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,226 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 19.2:1 |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Mascot | Tigers |
| Yearbook | Colonial |
| Affiliation | Conference A-1, Nassau County |
| Website | Hempstead High School |
Hempstead High School is a public high school located in Hempstead, New York.
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.
In the early 20th century, high school students from Garden City, East Meadow, and Roosevelt, in addition to Hempstead Village, all attended Hempstead High School. The tuition to Hempstead SD #1 was paid by the neighboring Common School Districts. It was not until the 1950s that these school districts built their own high schools.
The high school building is a three-level structure with an open courtyard in the center of the school. The school is built on a marshy area, and local legend holds that the school sinks a few inches every year. The school consists of three buildings: The "A" building, in which most of the classes are held and where the student lockers are located; the "B" building, which serves as home to the media center, administrative offices, the MCJROTC room, and a few classrooms; and the "C" building, which consists of the gymnasium, the nurses office, the auditorium, the student and faculty lunch rooms, and the science classrooms on the lower level. Renovations currently underway will relocate lockers to the school hallways, as they presently sit in the "commons" of the A building on the first floor. Hempstead High School also has an indoor swimming pool that reopened after renovations in the spring of 2005.
Once an academic power in the 1980s, Hempstead again began to show signs of improvements with the graduating classes of 2005 and 2006. In 2004, 57% of Hempstead's students passed the Math A Regents Examination (state average: 78%), up from 28% in 2003. In English for 2004, the passing rate stood at 66%, up from 49% in 2003 (state average: 77%). In Physics, Hempstead had an 88% passing rate, compared to an 81% state average. Hempstead also offers Advanced Placement courses in English, Biology, Chemistry, Spanish, United States History, French, and World History. There was an attempt to cut these classes, but a student protest in 2005 kept the Advanced Placement curriculum in place.
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