East Hampton Union Free School District is a
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school district
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located in the
Town of East Hampton on
Long Island
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, in
Suffolk County,
New York
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. It includes the
village
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of
East Hampton, the
unincorporated area
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just north of the village, and the
hamlet
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of
Northwest Harbor.
The total enrollment for the 2019–2020 school year was 1,712 students.
[ The current superintendent, Adam Fine, assumed the position on July 1, 2021.][
East Hampton is bordered by the Springs and ]Amagansett
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districts to the east, and the Wainscott and Sag Harbor
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districts to the west.[
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History
East Hampton's first school dates back to the 17th century, where the school was one of four public buildings in a village of 50-60 homes.[ Elementary students left the campus in 1961 and high school students left the campus in 1970, turning the remaining building into the East Hampton Middle School.][
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Enrollment
The total enrollment for the 2012-2013 school year was 897 students. In the 2016-2017 school year, the East Hampton School District reported to the New York State Education Department it had 1,848 students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade.Amagansett
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, Montauk, Sagaponack, Springs, and Wainscott school districts, none of which have their own high school.[("East Hampton School District, which has taken on the sole responsibility of educating public high school students on a tuition basis from Sagaponack, Wainscott, Amagansett, Montauk, and Springs for decades.")] Proposals have been made to merge the nearby districts, but have not been adopted.Pierson High School
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in Sag Harbor
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and Bridgehampton School
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in Bridgehampton.
Schools
* East Hampton High School
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, located at 2 Long Lane, serves grades 9 through 12 and is the easternmost high school in the state of New York. In the 2019–20 school year, there were 920 students.[ The current principal is Sara Smith.][ The current high school campus opened in 1970,][("Samuel Alanson Meddaugh, a former principal at East Hampton High School for whom its auditorium is named ... was the first principal to serve in the new high school building, which opened in 1970")] and a $49 million expansion was completed in 2010.[("Work on the high school, which began in May, is the last phase of the $80 million districtwide expansion and renovation project, which was approved by district voters in a bond referendum in May 2006. The project was scheduled to be finished by the end of 2010")][ The current principal is Charles Soriano.][ The building was built in 1910 and enlarged in 1963.][ The current principal is Karen Kuneth.][ The building opened in 1961.]
Notable alumni
* Bran Ferren
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, designer, inventor and special visual effects director at The Walt Disney Company
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* Ross Gload
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Gload grew up in the Long Island ...
, baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies
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* Paul Annacone
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, tennis player and coach
* Howard Wood, basketball player
References
External links
East Hampton Union Free School District Website
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East Hampton (town), New York
School districts in Suffolk County, New York