Huntington High School (HHS) is a

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in Huntington, New York, United States. It is part of the

Huntington Union Free School District The Huntington Union - Free School District is a school district in Huntington, New York. There are eight schools in the district. Students in kindergarten through grade 3 are situated at Flower Hill Primary, Jefferson Primary, Southdown Primar ...

Controversy

In 2018, Huntington High School was at the center of a controversy surrounding the deportation of a Honduran student seeking asylum. Documented in the New York Times, Alex was wrongly accused by Huntington High School of being part of a gang. "Despite all these warning signs, when the ICE agents came to Alex's house on June 14, 2017, he was shocked into silence. It was only when they were far from Huntington, passing through unfamiliar, rundown Long Island towns, that he was able to get out the words to ask why he was being arrested. Alex says the agent first asked him to guess, and then told him, "We received a report a while ago from the school that you were a gang member, and that's why." Despite only comprising 9% of the students of the school, black students represent 33% of the school's out-of-school suspensions and 21% of expulsions. Furthermore, black students are 7.2 times more likely to see disciplinary action than white students are.

Notable alumni

* Anthony Brown (1979), lawyer, politician and congressman * James D. Conte, politician *

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(1981), CEO of

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(1911), aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and industrialist * Joseph Hazelwood (1964), sailor * Amy Ignatow (1995), author, illustrator, and cartoonist *

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, author *

Greg Packer Gregory F. Packer (born December 18, 1963), is a retiredWatson, Andrew David (2013-09-04)''The New Yorker.'' American highway maintenance worker from Huntington, New York, best known for frequently being quoted as a " man on the street" in newspa ...

(1983), perpetual man-on-the-street interviewee *

Sarah Reinertsen Sarah Reinertsen (born 22 May 1975) is an American Paralympic triathlete and former track athlete. She was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency, a bone-growth disorder; her affected leg was amputated above the knee at age seven. Early athl ...

, paratriathlete and former Paralympic track athlete *

Kurt Sohn Kurt Sohn (born June 26, 1957 in Ithaca, New York) is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for eight seasons for the New York Jets from 1981 to 1988. After growing up in Huntington (New York) and excelling in ...

(1975), NFL player

References

External links

* Huntington, New York Schools in Suffolk County, New York Public high schools in New York (state) 1958 establishments in New York (state) Educational institutions established in 1958 {{NewYork-school-stub