Miller Place Union Free School District

Miller Place Union Free School District
Location
Miller Place , Suffolk County , New York United States
District information
Motto	Empowering excellence today, developing tomorrow's, forever MP proud.
Grades	K-12
President	Lisa Reitan
Superintendent	Seth A. Lipshie
Schools	4
Students and staff
Students	2,276 [1]
District mascot	Panthers
Colors	Red and blue
Other information
District Offices	7 Memorial Drive Miller Place, NY 11764
Website	www.millerplace.k12.ny.us

Miller Place Union Free School District is a school district in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York. The district serves the vast majority of Miller Place and a large chunk of Sound Beach on the North Shore of Long Island. ^[2]

History

Early history

In 1813, the Town of Brookhaven created all of their school districts and established the number and location of all of them. The district was created as District #6 of Brookhaven Town, and was to take up what was then known as "Miller's Place" (the modern Miller Place) along with the Hopkins Settlement, which still stand today in Miller Place near the harbor in Mount Sinai. The first school in this district opened alongside it in 1813. Another one of the very first schools in Miller Place was the Miller Place Academy. It was opened in 1834 and is today a library. It is on North Country Road in Miller Place, where two schools in the modern school district stand today (North Country Road Middle School and Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School). It closed in 1868, before opening again in 1894 as a public school to replace the very first school. It has been the Miller Place Free Library since 1938. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Recent history

The district really started to pick up steam in the 1960s and early 1970s, with all of today's schools in the district except for North Country Road Middle School (which opened in 1937) were opened in this time period. The district was even able to have enough students to warrant its first high school in 1972. Miller Place High School graduated its first class in 1975. ^[7]

Schools

The following is a table of the schools in the Miller Place Union Free School District. ^[8]

School name	Type of school	Address	Grades	Principal
Miller Place High School	High School	15 Memorial Drive Miller Place, NY 11764	9-12	Kevin Slavin
North Country Road Middle School	Middle School	191 North Country Road Miller Place, NY 11764	6-8	Christine Mangiamele
Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School	Intermediate School	197 North Country Road Miller Place, NY 11764	3-5	Jean Marie D'Aversa
Andrew Muller Primary School	Elementary School	65 Lower Rocky Point Road Miller Place, NY 11764	K-2	Laura Gewurz

References

1. "MILLER PLACE UFSD | NYSED Data Site". data.nysed.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
2. Geography Division (January 12, 2021). 2020 census - school district reference map: Suffolk County, NY (PDF) (Map). U.S. Census Bureau. p. 4 (PDF p. 5/6). Retrieved 2025-06-19. - Text list
3. "Our History" . Retrieved 2025-08-24.
4. "Samuel Hopkins House". Clio. Retrieved 2025-10-21.
5. Rothenburg, Mark H. (2005), Brookhaven Town @ 350 Years (PDF), The Patchogue-Medford Library, retrieved October 20, 2025
6. Barr, Kyle (2020-06-19). "New Bench at Miller Place Academy Building Reveals Generations of History | TBR News Media" . Retrieved 2025-10-21.
7. "District Profile - Miller Place UFSD". www.millerplace.k12.ny.us. Retrieved 2025-08-24.
8. "Home - Miller Place UFSD". www.millerplace.k12.ny.us. 2025-08-25. Retrieved 2025-08-24.