Ward Melville High School

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Ward Melville High School
380 Old Town Road

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11733

United States
Coordinates 40°54′59″N73°04′29″W / 40.9163889°N 73.0747222°W / 40.9163889; -73.0747222
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Type Public
MottoExcellence in Education
Established1968
Locale Suburban
NCES District ID3628200
CEEB code 331740
NCES School ID 362820003809 [1]
Faculty140 [2]
Teaching staff145.83 (FTE) [1]
Grades10–12
Enrollment1520 (2021-2022)) [1]
   Grade 9 9
   Grade 10 496
   Grade 11 473
   Grade 12 519
  Ungraded27
Student to teacher ratio10.42 [1]
Color(s)Green and gold   
Athletics22 varsity and junior varsity teams for boys and 21 varsity and junior varsity teams for girls
MascotPatriot
Website www.threevillagecsd.org/schools/ward_melville_high_school

Ward Melville High School is a public high school in the Three Village Central School District of Suffolk County, New York on Long Island, serving grades ten through twelve. [3] It is fed by the two junior high schools in the district: Paul J. Gelinas Junior High School and Robert Cushman Murphy Junior High School, and is named after businessman and philanthropist Ward Melville.

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Located sixty miles from Manhattan in the Three Village area, Ward Melville High School is situated in East Setauket, New York. The school serves students from Setauket, East Setauket, Stony Brook, Old Field, Strongs Neck, Poquott, and South Setauket.

As of the 2011–12 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,848 students and 140.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.2.

The building was originally designed to have 290,700 square feet (27,010 m2) with capacity for 2,000 students, [4] although it has been expanded several times since. Each of the three grades currently[ when? ] has approximately 600 students.

The district provides for numerous clubs and activities after school, including a musical–theater arts program and many sports teams. [3] The school offers 25 different Advanced Placement courses and another 25 college courses that are offered credit through several colleges and universities.

The school has been expanded several times to accommodate the growing number of students attending Ward Melville High School. In 2002, two extra wings were added to the northeastern and southeastern corners of the school. During the 2009–2010 school year, a new weight training facility was completed in the rear of the school while the music rooms were renovated. In the 2010–2011 school year, an additional wing was built to house the science department while the auditorium and the library was refurbished.

Achievements

Ward Melville High School has been recognized as a School of Excellence by the United States Department of Education and carries this designation on each student's transcript and diploma. [3] It was ranked within the top 500 high schools in America in 2004 by MSNBC Newsweek. [5] It was named, among three other Long Island high schools, a National Blue Ribbon winner for academic excellence by the U.S. Department of Education in 2022.

The proximity of Ward Melville to Stony Brook University has encouraged the school to house a very strong science research program. This program annually produces many winners in the Intel Science Talent Search, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair and other science competitions. In 1998, Ward Melville had the highest number of Science Talent Search finalists in the United States (4 out of 40), [6] and in 2006, it tied for the greatest number of semifinalists (12 out of 300). [7] In 2008, Ward Melville achieved the highest number of Intel Semifinalists in the nation with 13 students. Over the past nine years, 2002–2010, Ward Melville has produced a total of 85 Intel semi-finalists and 11 finalists, the third-most of any secondary school in the United States.

Lacrosse

The school's lacrosse team has won several New York State championships: 1978, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2013, 2017, and 2018. The team has a healthy rivalry with West Islip High School, against whom the Patriots have matched up in seven of the past[ when? ] eight county championship games. The Patriots went 22-0 and received the number one national ranking in 2013. [8]

Baseball

The Patriots won their first Long Island Championship in the 2013 season.

Players

In 2008 the Ward Melville Players won a Theatre Arts Scholarship Recognition Award (Teeny Award) for Innovation in Theatre Education. This was awarded due to a spiral staircase built inside the Blackbox theatre the players perform in.[ citation needed ]

Extracurriculars

Ward Melville high school offers a wide range of extracurricular activities for its students. These include a nationally ranked Science Olympiad team, the "InSTAR" program, which has been very successful in preparing students for the Regeneron Science Talent Search, acclaimed theater and music programs, and others. [9] [10]

In 2013, a faith-based club, Students United in Faith (SUIF), was rejected due to its religious nature. After being faced with legal action by the Liberty Institute, the school superintendent investigated and reversed the decision, stating that the initial reason for rejection was "inaccurately conveyed". [11]

On October 6, 2014, the school was once again faced with legal action by the Liberty Institute for rejecting SUIF's renewal. [12] The club was supposedly unable to maintain a group number of 20 or more, the purported minimum required by the school. The Equal Access Act of 1984, which is cited as a major point in the club's renewal, does not respect local club minimums.

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Ward Melville High School include:

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