Great Neck School District

The Great Neck School District is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in Great Neck, New York, United States. 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. [ [http://greatneck.k12.ny.us/GNPS/Pages/budget.html 2006-07 Proposed Budget] , accessed May 18, 2006]

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 basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 10.7. [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&details=1&ID2=3405010&DistrictID=3405010 District information for the Great Neck Union Free School District] , National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed September 16, 2008.]

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 South High School
**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
**Saddle Rock Elementary School
*Nursery School:
**Parkville School

Former Schools

Declining student population through the 1970s and 1980s [http://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. [ [http://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/GNPS/Pages/history.html History at Great Neck School District Official Page] ] [ [http://www.greatnecklibrary.org/gnhistory/schlib.html Great Neck History Online at the Great Neck Library] ] The previously operational schools included:

Early Schools

Modern Day Schools

ee also

* List of school districts in New York

References

External links

* [http://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/ Great Neck School District]
* [http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3612510 Data for the Great Neck School District] , National Center for Education Statistics