Sachem High School East is a public

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located in

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, United States. Along with

Sachem High School North Sachem High School North is a public high school in Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, United States. It is a part of the Sachem School District. Sports Sports offered at SHSN: *Boys' bowling *Girls' bowling *Boys' cross country *Girls' cross countr ...

, it is one of the two high schools in the

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History

The school was founded in 2004, populated by students from the former Sachem High School South, which closed and was rebranded to Samoset Middle School.

Athletics

Sachem East fields a number of varsity and junior varsity teams in the Section 11 Athletic Conference. Teams at Sachem East include: *Boys' bowling *Girls' bowling *Boys' cross country *Girls' cross country *Boys' volleyball *Girls' volleyball *Boys' soccer *Girls' soccer *Field hockey *Boys' lacrosse *Girls' lacrosse *Football *Girls' tennis *Boys' tennis *Girls' swimming *Boys' swimming *Boys' basketball *Girls' basketball *Wrestling *Boys' golf *Boys' track *Girls' track *Baseball *Softball *Cheerleading *Arrowettes (dance) *Fortnite E-sports A number of teams have won national, state, or regional championships. These include: *Varsity Field Hockey-Long Island Champions 2014, 2018 *Varsity Cheerleading-National Title 2016 *Girls' Varsity Basketball-NYS Champion 2010

Academics

Sachem East offers many of the

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programs offered by the

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, as well as many honors courses. It offers

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as foreign languages that can be taken. The school also offers classes in culinary arts, engineering, 3D printing, and cosmetology (which upon completion grants the student a cosmetology license). Sachem East has partnered with Eastern Suffolk BOCES to allow students to take courses through BOCES.

Extra curriculars

Sachem East offers many clubs for students to join. It also has chapters for many national honor societies including Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Business, Technology, Art, Music, and the

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. The school also fields several academic teams, such as History Bowl teams (the junior varsity 2017–18 team made it to the national competition in

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) and a DECA team.

Demographics

Notable alumni

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References

{{authority control Public high schools in New York (state) Schools in Suffolk County, New York Educational institutions established in 2005 2005 establishments in New York (state)