Massapequa High School
| Massapequa High School | |
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Massapequa High School main campus
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4925 Merrick Road Massapequa, New York 11758 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°40′04″N 73°27′12″W / 40.66778°N 73.45333°WCoordinates: 40°40′04″N 73°27′12″W / 40.66778°N 73.45333°W |
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| Established | 1955 |
| School district | Massapequa Union Free School District |
| Principal | Patrick DiClemente (Main Campus) Jordan McCaw (Ames Campus) |
| Faculty | 142.4 FTEs |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,825 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.8:1 |
| Color(s) | Navy blue and gold |
| Team name | Chiefs |
| Website | www |
Massapequa High School is a public high school located in Massapequa, New York, United States, for students in grades 9 through 12. Students in grade 9 attend the Massapequa High School Ames campus, which is located at 198 Baltimore Avenue in Massapequa.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,825 students and 142.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. There were 97 students (5.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 30 (1.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Massapequa High School's first graduating class, the class of 1956, remained at the elementary school located at Hicksville Road for its freshman year and then spent the next two years at what was to become East Lake Junior High School (now known as East Lake Elementary School). Massapequa High School opened in its own location on Merrick Road in September 1955.
Berner High School opened in 1962 to relieve the growing population of Massapequa High School. After a decline in district enrollment, Berner High School closed in 1987 and now serves 7th and 8th grade students as Berner Middle School.
Massapequa High School underwent an expansion in the northeast corner of the school, with construction of a new wing with eight classrooms completed in September 2007. The school's track was resurfaced in the summer of 2011.
Located on Merrick Rd. in Massapequa across from the South Gate Shopping Center.
Located on Baltimore Ave.
In the 2006 Season Massapequa High School's baseball team won the New York State division. They won the LI Championship again in 2007, 2008, and 2009 creating a "four peat" tradition.
In 2007, Massapequa High School's volleyball team won the New York State championship. Recently, cheerleading was added as a sport.
Massapequa HS has a wrestling program dating back to the 1950s. The Massapequa Wrestling program, involving only freshmen, began in 1952 under the leadership of Coach Len Connor. In 1955, Bill Deveaux took over as the head coach and managed the program through 1957, which included the first graduating class in 1956. John Hass officially took over as the head coach in 1958 and continued until 1962. In 1963, former wrestler Al Bevilacqua took over as the head coach. Wrestling grew and flourished at Massapequa under the leadership and program development of Coach Bevilacqua. Years later, another former wrestler, Gary Mims would become an assistant coach and help Coach Bevilacqua turn Massapequa into a wrestling powerhouse. Mims would go on to become the head coach in 1978 and guide the program through 28 successful years up until his retirement in 2006. In 2006, Joe Catalanotto took over as head coach at Massapequa. Prior to 2006, Coach Catalanotto had been the Junior High coach for seven years and an assistant with both the Varsity and Junior Varsity programs at Massapequa.
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