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Garden City High School (New York)

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Type
  
Public high school

Faculty
  
97.1 FTEs

Phone
  
+1 516-478-2000

Color
  
Maroon and grey

Principal
  
Nanine McLaughlin

Grades
  
9-12

Founded
  
1925

Established
  
1925 (at current location since 1955)

Asst. principals
  
Dave Perrotta, Kevin Steingruebner

Address
  
170 Rockaway Ave, Garden City, NY 11530, USA

District
  
Garden City Union Free School District

Motto
  
A Journey Into the Future" ("Education)

Garden City High School is the public high school in the Incorporated Village of Garden City in the Town of Hempstead, New York, United States. The principal of the school is Nanine McLaughlin. Assistant principals are Kevin Steingruebner and Dave Perrotta.

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As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,187 students and 97.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.2:1. There were 24 students (2.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 3 (0.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

In 2016 Garden City High School was ranked the #121 school in the Nation.

Notable alumni

Academia

  • Gilbert Chu, biochemist and oncologist at Stanford University
  • R. Inslee Clark, Jr., Dean of undergraduate admissions, Yale University

    • Arts

  • Liza Huber, actress and daughter of Susan Lucci
  • Joe Iconis, musical theater writer; recipient of 2006 Jonathan Larson award, 2007 Ed Kleban award, and a Backstage Bistro Award
  • Susan Lucci, actress, star of All My Children, class of 1964
  • Elliott Murphy, singer/songwriter, class of 1967
  • John Tesh, pianist, composer

    • Broadcast journalism

  • Lara Spencer, television journalist, co-anchor of Good Morning America
  • John Tesh, radio host and television presenter

    • Finance

  • John J. Phelan, Jr., former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Stock Exchange

    • Government

  • Michael Balboni, former Deputy Secretary for Public Safety for the State of New York, New York State Senator and Assemblyman
  • Steven Chu (born 1948), former U.S. Secretary of Energy and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, class of 1966
  • John R. Dunne, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and New York State Senator
  • Kathleen Rice, U.S. Representative for New York's 4th congressional district and former District Attorney of Nassau County, New York

    • Literature

  • Sarah Langan, horror writer, class of 1992
  • Sarah Smith, author of mysteries and science fiction

    • Science

  • Gilbert Chu, biochemist and oncologist at Stanford University
  • Michael Wigler, geneticist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    • Sports

  • Carl Braun, professional basketball player for the New York Knicks
  • Matt Daley, New York Yankees relief pitcher
  • Dave Jennings, NFL punter and football analyst
  • Don McCauley, All-American running back at North Carolina, Baltimore Colts, College Football Hall of Fame

    • Miscellaneous

  • John Chatterton, commercial scuba diver, subject of the bestselling book Shadow Divers

    • Notable faculty

  • Irvin Faust, noted novelist and short-story writer; Director of Guidance, 1960-1995

    • References

    Garden City High School (New York) Wikipedia
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