Manhasset Secondary School is a six-year public high school and middle school located in Manhasset, Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. Manhasset High School consistently ranks among the top 100 high schools in America. In addition, the school has been represented yearly national science competitions such as I-SWEEEP, ISEF, and WAC Foundation Lighting Science Fair.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,092 students and 83.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 44 students (4.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 8 (0.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The secondary school building was built in 1934-1939 as a project of the Works Progress Administration. The building was designed by the firm Tooker & Marsh with Roger H. Bullard (of Manhasset) as an associate architect. John H. Esile & Co. was contracted as the building contractor. It has undergone multiple extensions and renovations throughout the years, but remains almost entirely intact historically. The interior main hallway and auditorium underwent restoration in 2009. It is currently pending a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
Schools and offices located in the school building
Manhasset Middle School
Manhasset High School
Central Office
The Superintendent of Schools
Offices for the District Coordinators of Mathematics, Foreign Languages, Science, English, Athletics, Technology and Social Studies
Manhasset's team nicknames are the Indians and "Set". The school colors are orange and blue.
Varsity sports at Manhasset High School include baseball, football, basketball, cheerleading, field hockey, cross country, track, volleyball, lacrosse, tennis, soccer, swimming, crew, fencing, badminton, golf, bowling and wrestling.
In 1932, Manhasset established the first HS lacrosse team on Long Island while Garden City followed shortly after in 1934. A yearly lacrosse tradition known as the "Woodstick Classic" emerged between the schools, an event which is attended by thousands every year, and is currently the nation's longest continuous boys lacrosse rivalry.
Since 1995, Manhasset has won the Class B State Championship one time : 1995, and Class C State Championship three times: 2004,2009 and 2010.
For the past six years since 2004, the Manhasset Indians have been ranked among the top 100 best lacrosse teams in the country (Ranked by Laxpower), and have finished among the top three on that list, three different times during that span.
In 2009 and 2010, the boys lacrosse team won the Class C state championship, making back-to-back state titles for the first time in school history.
In 2008, the Boys Junior 4+ boat won the Scholastic National Regatta in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the prestigious Stotesbury Cup regatta, and the New York State Championship regatta.
The following year, in 2009, the Boys Senior 4+ won back-to-back National titles. They also placed first in both the New York State Championship regatta and the New Jersey State Championship regatta that year. The Girls Junior 4+ boat also won the Scholastic National Regatta and placed 4th in the world famous Head of the Charles Regatta.
In 2010 the Girls Lightweight 4+ boat won New York State Championship regatta and the Scholastic National Regatta. They also took second place Second at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta.
Eight choirs involve over 300 students in singing: Symphonic Choir, Concert Choir I, Concert Choir II, Women's Chorus, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Select Ensemble, Kinsmen, Varsity Kinsmen.[2] Kinsmen is the elite men's choir with 35 members.
2016 Golds with Distinction: Women's Chorus, Symphonic Choir, Symphonic Orchestra
2009 Golds with Distinction: Women's Chorus, Symphonic Choir, Select Ensemble, Kinsmen, Orchestra
2008 Golds with Distinction: Women's Chorus, Concert Choir, Select Ensemble, Kinsmen
2007 Golds with Distinction: Concert Choir, Select Ensemble, Kinsmen
Danny Barnes (born 1989), baseball player
Ted Bessell (1935-1996) television actor and director.
Jim Brown (born 1936), NFL Hall of Famer for the Cleveland Browns.
Jack Coffee (born 1944) attorney, professor of law at Columbia and SEC expert.
John Gagliardi (born 1974), professional lacrosse player.
Dr. Nancy E. Gary, (1937–2006) former dean of Albany Medical College, Executive Vice President of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and dean of its F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine.
Ken Howard (1944–2016), actor best known for the TV series The White Shadow and Chancellor of the National Kidney Foundation.
Steve Lesser (born 1944), architect, best known for work on Faneuil Hall, Boston.
Barbara Prey (born Barbara Ernst in 1957), painter with works in numerous museums and the White House.
Vicki Robin (born 1945), activist, author of Your Money or Your Life.
Ira Lee Sorkin (born 1943), attorney, and SEC expert, defended Bernard Madoff.
