South Side School is the only public high school in Rockville Center, New York. South Side serves classes 9 to 12 and offers a range of academic, extra-curricular and athletic programs, including the International Baccalaureate (IB) Curriculum in junior and senior years. School district boundaries can be found in Rockville Center and South Hempstead. In 2008 South Side was ranked # no. in the top 47 high schools in America by Newsweek ' s "The Top of the Class: The complete list of the top 1,300 top US schools". The South side has maintained this distinction, at No. 44 of 2007, No. 32 of 2006, No. 45 of 2005 and No. 65 year 2003.
The main address for the South Side is 140 Shepherd Street, Rockville Center, New York 11570. Located further south in Rockville Center is the "Greenhouse". Established in 1975, the purpose of this off-site school is to provide a different approach to teaching students with academic or personal problems as well as different academic schedules and programs. The main building has two floors. The school is currently being run by John Murphy.
In the academic year 2014-15, schools have enrollment of 1,092 students and 93.7 class teachers (on FTE basis), for student-teacher ratio of 11.6: 1. There are 109 students (10.0% of enrollment) eligible for meals free lunch and 28 (2.6% of students) are eligible for lunch at a low cost.
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School history
The name of the school reflects its status as a junior high school on the south coast of Long Island, east of Jamaica. It has retained the name even though most of the villages on Long Island have established a secondary school named for their village.
The Shepherd Street address is the third location for the school, its first site (1892-1923) is at College Place, now the Rockville Town Center Building. The second site (1924-1954) on Hillside Avenue is now South Side Middle School. The school has served grades 9-12 since 1982-83, having previously become a 10-12 institution with new students attending South Sisi Middle School along with seventh and eighth grade students. The transition took place when sixth graders moved to junior high, with the institution being Secondary School.
The most prominent architectural characteristic of the current building is the colonnade that adorns the entrance on the west side of the building. This feature assigns its name to the school's annual yearbook, The Colonnade , but it is not unusual because it is not associated with one of the school's main north and south entrance, which faces the parking lot and the athletic field.
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Sports
South Side High School has a rich athletic history since the 1920s. Three teams (Boys Lacrosse, Girls Volleyball, and Girls Soccer) have won the New York State Championship. By far the most famous team is the 1971 Boys Basketball Team, captured by Beaver Smith, who won the last Nassau County championship contested at Island Garden, a 5,200 seater seating area previously located at West Hempstead, which was duplicated as the home of ABA New The York Nets (New York State high school did not hold a state championship tournament until the 1980s). Another successful team is Lady Cyclones Football Team. In the last 20 years, Lady Cyclones has won 17 State Championships including last in 2012, when the girls dominated their opponents, scored 63 goals and allowed only 6, to be 18-0-1. In 2013, the girls were ranked # 1 in the State and # 4 in the country. At the end of the 2009 season, the university girls' soccer team was ranked # 1 in the country.
In 2003-04, the boys' basketball team won the county championship for the first time since 1998, defeating all of Nassau County's opponents. 2004 also saw the lacrosse boy program catch the first Lacrosse State Championship.
Red and Blue
Red and Blue is an annual competition held by the South Side High School since 1916. "Red and Blue begins when girls are not allowed to participate in team sports". Author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin writes much about Red and Blue in the autobiographical memoir "Wait Till Next Year." Since 1979, Title IX has mandated that girls have equal access to sports and other activities, but the tradition has been alive, with around 300 (mostly) female students participating each year. In recent years, the event has also raised money for research and support of Breast Cancer.
Famous Alumni
The following famous people graduated from South Side High School:
- Dave Attell, comedian, actor, 1983
- Whittaker Chambers, author, editor, member of the Communist party, and spy for the Soviet Union who defected and became the vocal opponent of communism, 1919
- Kevin Connors, sport, 1993
- Ted Demme, movie producer, director, 1981
- Crystal Dunn, US Women's National Team football player 2010,
- Max von Essen, Broadway actor nominated Tony Award, 1992
- And Mishkin, the author; co-creators from Amethyst and Blue Devil for DC Comics, 1970
- Martin Feldstein, economist, economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan, 1957
- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, novelist ("Anya," "The Madness of a Seduced Woman," etc.), 1957
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, author ("Rival Team", "Wait Until Next Year," etc.), 1960
- Mel Gussow, theater critic, 1951
- Donald Holder, Broadway light designer, 1976
- Tim Holland, backgammon world champion, author, teacher, professional gambler, 1948
- Dean Kamen, inventor, entrepreneur, 1969
- Mark O'Connell, drummer for the rock band Taking Back Sunday, 1999
- Amy Schumer, comedian and actor, 1999
- Dean Skelos, State Senator of New York, NYS Senate Majority Leader, 1966
- Howard Stern, radio personality, 1972
- Laura Stevenson, musician and songwriter, 2002
- Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio, author, theologian, Episcopal priest, and life coach, 1999
- June Diane Raphael, Actress, 1998
References
External links
- The South Side boys lacrosse team play Cold Spring Harbor in Manhasset on 3-31-07
- South side vs Garden City boys varsity baseball on 4-21-07
- Rockville Center School District
- South Side SMA
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