Harborfields High School
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Harborfields High School is a four year secondary school
located in Greenlawn, New York
. It functions as the high school for Harborfields Central School District, which serves the communities of Centerport
and Greenlawn
and parts of Huntington
, Huntington Bay and Northport. The school is ranked 161 on the top 1300 high schools in America by in the 2009 Newsweek
rankings.
The Class of 1960 was the first graduating class, with about 130 graduates from Centerport and Greenlawn only. That first class used the building for four years as it was being completed.
The name Harborfields came from a combination of the older names of Centerport (ex Little Cow Harbor) and Greenlawn (ex Old Fields), selected from an entry by Russell Fisher in a naming contest in about 1955.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
located in Greenlawn, New York
Greenlawn, New York
Greenlawn is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 13,286 at the 2000 census. Students primarily attend the Harborfields Central School District...
. It functions as the high school for Harborfields Central School District, which serves the communities of Centerport
Centerport, New York
Centerport is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York on the notably affluent North Shore of Long Island. Formerly known as Little Cow Harbor about 1700, Centreport in 1836, and then the present Centerport after 1895...
and Greenlawn
Greenlawn, New York
Greenlawn is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 13,286 at the 2000 census. Students primarily attend the Harborfields Central School District...
and parts of Huntington
Huntington, New York
The Town of Huntington is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York, USA. Founded in 1653, it is located on the north shore of Long Island in northwestern Suffolk County, with Long Island Sound to its north and Nassau County adjacent to the west. Huntington is part of the New York metropolitan...
, Huntington Bay and Northport. The school is ranked 161 on the top 1300 high schools in America by in the 2009 Newsweek
Newsweek
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rankings.
The Class of 1960 was the first graduating class, with about 130 graduates from Centerport and Greenlawn only. That first class used the building for four years as it was being completed.
The name Harborfields came from a combination of the older names of Centerport (ex Little Cow Harbor) and Greenlawn (ex Old Fields), selected from an entry by Russell Fisher in a naming contest in about 1955.
Alumni
Notable alumni include:- Gregg "Opie" HughesOpie and AnthonyOpie and Anthony are the hosts of The Opie & Anthony Show, a talk radio program airing in the United States and Canada on XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Since the merger of the two satellite companies, this is now called Sirius/XM...
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program "The Opie and Anthony Show", did a radio broadcast on it - Mariah CareyMariah CareyMariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...
, singer-songwriter-producer and actress - Brian DanielsBrian DanielsBrian Daniels is a free agent American football guard who last played for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He was signed by the Vikings as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Colorado.He is currently a member of the Glendale Raptors rugby squad in...
, musician - Bill Daye, Major League Lacrosse player and coach
- Jaclyn DeSantisJaclyn DeSantisJaclyn DeSantis is an American actress. She is best known for playing Maggie on the NBC television series Windfall. She played the character Heather in the movie Road Trip...
, actress - Buzzy Feiten, musician
- John J. FlanaganJohn J. FlanaganJohn J. Flanagan represents the 2nd District of the New York State Senate, which includes the entire Town of Smithtown and portions of both the Town of Brookhaven and the Town of Huntington, all located in Suffolk County, New York. Flanagan was first elected to the State Senate in 2002, after...
, Republican New York state senator - Geoffrey GilmoreGeoffrey GilmoreGeoffrey Gilmore is the Director of the Tribeca Film Festival and a member of the UCLA Producers Program faculty.- Life :Creative Director of Tribeca Enterprises, a New York company that includes the Tribeca Film Festival, the Tribeca Cinemas and the Tribeca Film Festival Doha...
, director of Tribeca Film FestivalTribeca Film FestivalThe Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
- Christine HarnosChristine HarnosChristine Harnos is a Canadian film and television actress. Harnos is known for portraying Jennifer, the wife of main character Mark Greene on ER , Rimmer in the Action/Horror film Hellraiser: Bloodline , Dotty from The Girl Gets Moe film, Sarah Hughes in Cold Dog Soup film, Linda Wyatt in...
, actress - Jeff HawkinsJeff HawkinsJeffrey Hawkins is the founder of Palm Computing and Handspring...
, inventor of Palm Pilot - Charles LudlamCharles LudlamCharles Braun Ludlam was an American actor, director, and playwright.-Early life:Ludlam was born in Floral Park, New York, the son of Marjorie and Joseph William Ludlam. He was raised in Greenlawn, New York, on Long Island, and attended Harborfields High School. The fact that he was gay was not a...
, actor, director, playwright, producer - Mark MillonMark MillonMark Millon is an American lacrosse player currently playing for the Long Island Lizards of Major League Lacrosse.Millon was a college player at the University of Massachusetts, where he gained honors as a 3 time All American , leading UMass to three births in the NCAA tournament...
, Major League Lacrosse player - Cindy ShermanCindy ShermanCindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in...
, artist - Sara WhalenSara WhalenSara Whalen Hess was born on April 28, 1976, in Natick, Massachusetts. Whalen played for the United States Women's National Soccer Team from 1997 to 2000, and was a founding player of WUSA.-Soccer career:...
, U.S. women's soccer Olympian - Lorna Libert artist
External links
- Harborfields High School website
- Harborfields High School report card provided by NYSED
- Harborfields High School profile provided by schooltree.org