Great Neck Public Schools is a public
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serving students residing in specific areas of
Great Neck
Great Neck is a region on Long Island, New York, that covers a peninsula on the North Shore and includes nine villages, among them Great Neck, Great Neck Estates, Great Neck Plaza, Kings Point, and Russell Gardens, and a number of unincor ...
,
North New Hyde Park,
North Hills, and
Manhasset Hills, New York
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. It is
Union Free School District Number 7 in the
Town of North Hempstead
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History
The area was first settled by Europeans around 1643 and became part of the town of Hem ...
in
Nassau County, on
Long Island
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, in
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About 6,846 students according to Niche rankings, grades
K-12
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, attend the Great Neck Public Schools. On May 21, 2019, the voters of this district passed a budget of $234,418,944.
As of the 2015-16 school year, the district's ten schools had a total enrollment of 6,399 students and 585.0 classroom teachers (on an
FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 10.7.
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. Accessed September 16, 2008.
List of schools
Current schools
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.
* High schools:
**
Great Neck North High School
John L. Miller Great Neck North High School or simply "Great Neck North," is a public high school, including grades 9 through 12, in the village of Great Neck, New York, operated by the Great Neck School District.
As of the 2018â19 school year ...
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Great Neck South High School
William A. Shine Great Neck South High School (commonly Great Neck South, South High School, or GNSHS) is a four-year public high school located in the Lake Success village of Great Neck, New York. The school serves students in grades 9 through 1 ...
![Great Neck South High School](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Great_Neck_South_High_School.JPG)
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Great Neck Village High School
Great Neck Village High School (also known as Village School or VS) is an American long-established public alternative school. It is a member of Coalition of Essential Schoolshttp://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/GNPS/Pages/profiles/vsprofile10.pdf Grea ...
(Alternative school)
* Middle schools:
** Great Neck North Middle School
** Great Neck South Middle School
* Elementary schools:
** E. M. Baker Elementary School
** John F. Kennedy Elementary School
** Lakeville Elementary School
**
Saddle Rock Elementary School
Saddle Rock Elementary School or simply "Saddle Rock" is an elementary school, comprising grades Kindergarten through 5. It is a public school located in Great Neck, New York, USA as part of the Great Neck School District. The school has been reco ...
* Nursery school:
** Parkville School
Former schools
Declining student population through the 1970s and 1980s resulted in a reduction in the number of operating elementary schools from eleven in 1954 to only four today. The previously operational schools included:
Early schools
Modern day schools
Academic performance
Based on the 2020
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rankings, the Great Neck Union Free School District is the number one public school district in New York and number three in the US, beating out its rivals â Jericho and
Manhasset Union Free School District
The Manhasset Union Free School District, also known as Manhasset Public Schools, is a public school district serving the Greater Manhasset area of Nassau County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York. The district is a Union Free ...
. In 2017, 75% of all students in this district were proficient in the English Language Arts while 78% of all students in this district are considered proficient in Mathematics.
See also
*
List of school districts in New York
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References
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External links
Great Neck School DistrictData for the Great Neck School District National Center for Education Statistics
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* Match, Richard. ''Lucky Seven: A History of the Great Neck Public Schools, Union Free School District No. 7'', Great Neck Public Schools 150th Anniversary Committee, 1964. The
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1814 establishments in New York (state)