The Great Neck School District is a comprehensive community public school district

School district

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 primarily serving students in Great Neck, New York

Great Neck, New York

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. It also serves students in some parts of Manhasset

Manhasset, New York

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 and New Hyde Park

North New Hyde Park, New York

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. It is Union Free School District

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 Number 7 in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County

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, New York

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, United States

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About 6,000 students, grades K-12, attend the Great Neck Public Schools. On School Election Day, May 16, 2006, the voters of this district passed a budget of $162,315,000.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the district's ten schools had a total enrollment of 6,253 students and 585.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE

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 basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 10.7.

List of Schools

There are three high schools: North High School, with an alternative program, Community School; South High School; and The Village School, a small alternative high school. There are also two middle schools, four elementary schools, and a nursery school.

• High Schools:
  • Great Neck North High School
    Great Neck North High School
    John L. Miller Great Neck North High School or simply "North High," or "North," is a public high school, including grades 9 through 12, in the village of Great Neck, New York, operated by the Great Neck School District...
    
    
  • Great Neck South High School
    Great Neck South High School
    William A. Shine Great Neck South High School is an American top public four-year high school. It is located in Lake Success, serving students in grades 9 through 12. However, GNSHS is officially listed in Great Neck...
    
    
  • Village School (Alternative school)
• Middle Schools:
  • Great Neck North Middle School
  • Great Neck South Middle School
• Elementary Schools:
  • E. M. Baker Elementary School
  • John F. Kennedy Elementary School
  • Lakeville Elementary School
    Lakeville Elementary School
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  • Saddle Rock Elementary School
    Saddle Rock Elementary School
    Saddle Rock Elementary School or simply "Saddle Rock" is an elementary school, comprising grades Kindergarten through 5. It is a public school located in Great Neck, New York, USA as part of the Great Neck School District...
    
    
• Nursery School:
  • Parkville School

Former Schools

Declining student population through the 1970s and 1980shttp://www.antonnews.com/greatneckrecord/1999/12/31/news/schoolboard.html resulted in a reduction in the number of operating elementary schools from eleven in 1954 to only four today. The previously operational schools included:

Early Schools

School Name	Opened	Closed	Notes
Woolley's Brook School	1814	1830
Second School (name unknown)	1830	1838	burned down
Fairview Avenue School	1840	1869	(photo)(another photo)
First Arrandale School	1869	1899	(photo)
Second Arrandale School	1900	1920 (burned down)	(photo)
"Second" School (Kensington)	1905		(photo)(another photo)

Modern Day Schools

School Name	Opened	Closed	Notes
Arrandale School	1914	1977	building on corner of Arrandale Ave. and Middleneck Rd. was demolished in 1976
Kensington-Johnson School	1921	1981	Demolished 1996 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905EED6163EF936A25751C1A960958260
Cumberland School	1951	1981	ecame Cumberland Adult Center http://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/GNPS/Pages/adult/adult.html .view at Live.com
Cutter Mill School	1952	1978	Demolished
Clover Drive School	1954		became Clover Drive Adult Centerhttp://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/GNPS/Pages/Adult/pages/s06_aboutus.html
Grace Avenue School	1954		became Great Neck Senior Center http://greatneckseniorcenter.org/index.html
Cherry Lane School	1954	1976	sold to private religious school

External links

• Great Neck School District
• Data for the Great Neck School District, National Center for Education Statistics
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• Match, Richard. Lucky Seven: A History of the Great Neck Public Schools, Union Free School District No. 7, Great Neck Public Schools 150th Anniversary Committee, 1964. The Great Neck Library has provided this download to view scanned images of the book. It is a 7.2 MiB
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