Great Neck North Middle School
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Richard S. Sherman Great Neck North Middle School or simply "North Middle" is a junior high school, comprising grades 6 through 8. It is located on 77 Polo Road in Great Neck
as part of the Great Neck School District
. It is located in Great Neck Village.
Great Neck North has been considered as one of the hundred top schools in the nation for the past several years. Every grade is split up into two (or three) teams, with the sixth grade teams called the Adventure and Phoenix, the seventh grade teams SWIS 1, SWIS 2 and SWIS 3, and the eight grade teams Blue and Orange (the school colors). Every student is required in sixth grade to have five "team" subjects, English, Reading, Science, Social Studies and Math, a language subject, a music subject, lunch, physical education, a term of sewing, cooking, art and 1/2 a term of music and computers. The seventh and eighth graders do the same except for Reading, instead they get a period called "Flex".
Students from surrounding elementary schools such as EM Baker, JFK, Saddle Rock and others typically enter this school for their three years in middle school (grades six through eight), before advancing to the high school, North High, which is located immediately next to the middle school.
There are after school clubs there too, ranging from music clubs (chamber music and orchestra), the musical and One-Acts, Debate Team, Mock Trial, School Newspaper, Yearbook Committee, Asian Club to Dance and Yoga Clubs.
Great Neck, New York
The term Great Neck is commonly applied to a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, which includes the village of Great Neck, the village of Great Neck Estates, the village of Great Neck Plaza, and others, as well as an area south of the peninsula near Lake Success and the border of Queens...
as part of the Great Neck School District
Great Neck School District
The Great Neck School District is a comprehensive community public school district primarily serving students in Great Neck, New York. It also serves students in some parts of Manhasset and New Hyde Park. It is Union Free School District Number 7 in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New...
. It is located in Great Neck Village.
Demographics
The student body in the 2007-2008 school year consisted of:- 0 American Indian or Alaska Native students or 0% of the student body
- 8 Black or African American students or 1% of the student body
- 39 Hispanic or Latino students or 7% of the student body
- 60 Asian or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students or 10% of the student body
- 491 White students or 82% of the student body
- 0 Multiracial students or 0% of the student body
Information
- Address: 77 Polo Road Great Neck, New York 11023
- Year-round schedule: yes
- Magnet schoolMagnet schoolIn education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized courses or curricula. "Magnet" refers to how the schools draw students from across the normal boundaries defined by authorities as school zones that feed into certain schools.There are magnet schools at the...
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al: yes - MascotMascotThe term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...
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: Great Neck Union Free School District - NewspaperNewspaperA newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
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name: Polaris
Great Neck North has been considered as one of the hundred top schools in the nation for the past several years. Every grade is split up into two (or three) teams, with the sixth grade teams called the Adventure and Phoenix, the seventh grade teams SWIS 1, SWIS 2 and SWIS 3, and the eight grade teams Blue and Orange (the school colors). Every student is required in sixth grade to have five "team" subjects, English, Reading, Science, Social Studies and Math, a language subject, a music subject, lunch, physical education, a term of sewing, cooking, art and 1/2 a term of music and computers. The seventh and eighth graders do the same except for Reading, instead they get a period called "Flex".
Students from surrounding elementary schools such as EM Baker, JFK, Saddle Rock and others typically enter this school for their three years in middle school (grades six through eight), before advancing to the high school, North High, which is located immediately next to the middle school.
There are after school clubs there too, ranging from music clubs (chamber music and orchestra), the musical and One-Acts, Debate Team, Mock Trial, School Newspaper, Yearbook Committee, Asian Club to Dance and Yoga Clubs.
Notable alumni
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