Westbury High School (Old Westbury, New York)
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Old Westbury, New York, NY USA |
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| Established | 1921 |
| Faculty | 83.5 FTEs |
| Enrollment | 1,349 (as of 2014-15) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 16.2:1 |
| Color(s) | Gold and green |
| Mascot | Dragons |
| Nickname | WHS |
| Website | http://www.westburyschools.org/high_school/ |
Westbury Senior High School is a ninth-through-12th-grade school of the Westbury Union Free School District (USFD No. 1), the district covering the village of Westbury, New York, USA. Its current building, located on Post Road at Jericho Turnpike in Old Westbury, New York (just north of Westbury Village), reached its 50th anniversary in 2008.
Westbury High School serves 1,000 students from locations on and near the North Shore of Long Island, in Nassau County. It serves Westbury Village, New Cassel, New York and Old Westbury. Westbury High School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,349 students and 83.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 16.2:1. There were 1,009 students (74.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 114 (8.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
High-school programs in Westbury Village were first established in 1921, with the first formal Westbury High School building opening in 1924 on Clark (now Rockland) and School streets. The senior high school moved to its current location in 1958. The old high school became Westbury Junior High School and then (1990) the current Westbury Middle School.
In the early 1990s, the Westbury district's ninth grade was moved up to the senior high school, which was previously 10th-through-12th-grade. The district's sixth grades, which were previously located at Powell's Lane and Drexel Avenue schools, joined the seventh and eighth grades at the junior high, forming Westbury Middle School.
Westbury High School's student population covers the United States, Central America South America, Haiti, Nigeria, China, India, North Korea and South Korea.
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