Long Beach High School (New York)

Long Beach High School is a public high school in Lido Beach, New York, serving the Long Beach City School District in Long Beach, New York. The school has a 30-acre (12 ha) campus.[4]

This article is about the high school in New York. For the polytechnic high school in California, see Long Beach Polytechnic High School.
Long Beach High School
Address
322 Lagoon Drive West

Lido Beach
,
New York
11561

United States
Coordinates40°35′39″N 73°38′05″W
Information
TypePublic secondary education in the United States
Established1971
School districtLong Beach City School District
PrincipalJeffrey Myers
Faculty117.62 FTEs[1]
Enrollment1,3333 (2017-18)[2]
Student to teacher ratio11.33[1]
Color(s)Blue, White
NicknameMarines
NewspaperTide[3]
Websitelbeach.org/schools/highschool

As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,324 students and 109.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 302 students (22.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 40 (3.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]

History

Long Beach Junior Senior High School was built in 1939 on Lindell Boulevard in Long Beach. Later, this building was converted to an elementary school and the high school moved to Lido Beach, at the site of what is now the Lido Elementary/Long Beach Middle School complex. Construction of the current location of Long Beach High School, between Lagoon Drive West and Blackheath Road, was completed in 1971. Recently, the school adopted the International Baccalaureate program and currently offers the IB Diploma,

Athletics

The school's teams are known as the Marines with a Bulldog as the mascot. They currently compete in District Eight of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association. The sports offered at the school include:

Fall Sports: Cross Country (Separate Male and Female Teams), Football, Cheerleading, Soccer (Separate Male and Female Teams), Badminton (Male Team), Swimming (Female Team), Volleyball (Separate Male and Female Teams), Tennis (Female Team), and the Surf Team (New York State's Only High School Surf Team (Co-Ed))

Winter Sports: Basketball (Separate Male and Female Teams), Swimming (Male Team), Cheerleading, Gymnastics, Winter Track (Separate Male and Female Teams), Wrestling (4X New York State Champions, 16 individual New York State Champions (the most in Nassau County history). and Ice Hockey (Male Team)(Three time New York state small school high school champions 2005, 2010–11 and 2011–12)

Spring Sports: Baseball (Male Team), Softball (Female Team), Golf (Separate Male and Female Teams), Spring Track (Separate Male and Female Teams), Lacrosse (Separate Male and Female Teams), Tennis (Male Team), and Badminton (Female Team)

Notable alumni

References
  1. School data for Long Beach Senior High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 18, 2019.
  2. "LONG BEACH HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
  3. "THE TIDE". THE TIDE. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  4. Saslow, Linda. "Schools Split on 'Open Campus'." The New York Times. October 23, 1988. Retrieved on October 18, 2011.
  5. Staff. "Notable Long Island high school alumni", Newsday. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Long Beach High School 1958 graduate Larry Brown was captain of the basketball team, chairman of Big Brothers and co-chairman of the welcoming committee."
  6. Ketcham, Diane. "Long Island Journal: Crystal Gazing", The New York Times, June 3, 1990. Accessed May 24, 2017. "The Crystal brothers all graduated from Long Beach High School.... Billy, the comedian-actor, graduated in 1965 and lives in California, as does Richard, a writer-producer, who graduated in 1967."
  7. Daniello, Mike. "Jim Fiore: the man behind Seawolves nation", The Statesman (Stony Brook), November 24, 2013. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Fiore is a Long Island native, graduating from Long Beach High School and then Hofstra University in 1991, where he received Bachelor of Arts degree in liberal arts."
  8. Staff. "Eric Foner: Making History Accessible", Publishers Weekly, October 26, 1998. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Foner worked without an agent until this book; Sandy Djikstra conducted an auction in 1994 for The Story of American Freedom, with Steve Forman at Norton winning with a substantial six-figure bid. Foner and Djikstra have a history: they attended Long Beach High School together."
  9. Leonetti, Rosemary. " Braving the Rain at Homecoming; LBHS carnival included international foods, a pie toss, a wedding booth, finger painting and a photo booth. ", Long Beach Patch, September 26, 2011. Accessed May 24, 2017. "This year’s inductees were esteemed professor and historian Eric Foner (Class of 1959), renowned doctor and cancer researcher Steven Libutti (Class of 1982) and Vietnam War veteran and retired Long Beach Police Detective Thomas Parker (Class of 1963)."
  10. "How a Hip-Hop Blog Turned Itself Into a Label, With Help From Warner". Billboard. 2019-10-11. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  11. Caddes, Gene. "Scottie Graham a blue collar Buckeye", United Press International, December 27, 1989. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Graham, who also helps out on the special teams, was a high school tailback at the same Long Beach, N.Y., high school that produced Pete Johnson, the Buckeyes' career touchdown leader."
  12. "Louis J. Ignarro - Biographical", Nobel Prize. Accessed May 24, 2017. "My interest in chemistry remained strong at Central Grade School and Long Beach High School, which led me to apply to Columbia University in New York City to study chemistry and pharmacy."
  13. Eskenazi, Gerald. "Bengals' Pete Johnson Has Leading Role", The New York Times, January 22, 1982. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Pete Johnson nervous? It's unlikely. He loves being on stage, from the time he played in Brigadoon as a senior at Long Beach (L.I.) High School.... When his great-grandfather died, he left the South and moved to Long Island to be with his mother. He played one year of football at Long Beach."
  14. Brodsky, Robert. "Rep. Peter King honored a teen-aged Todd Kaminsky in 1996", Newsday, March 13, 2016. Accessed May 24, 2017. "On June 12, 1996, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) stood on the House floor to praise a Long Beach High School senior from his district for 'outstanding leadership' as a columnist for his school newspaper and strong political activism. That student, Todd Kaminsky, is now the Democratic Long Beach assemblyman running for State Senate."
  15. About Todd Kaminsky, New York State Senate. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Todd graduated from Long Beach High School, received his law degree, magna cum laude, from New York University, and his bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan."
  16. Munzing, Chris. "Remember the Marines '53 football champs to get their due", Long Beach Herald, August 28, 2003. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Also being inducted this year are 1950s Harvard basketball star Edward Condon, lacrosse pro Ken Garcia, 1991 scholastic baseball League MVP D.J. Robertson, "Seabiscuit" actor Ed Lauter and Long Beach historian Roberta Fiore."
  17. Donlon, Brenden. "New honorees on the LBHS Wall of Fame", News 12 Long Island, January 8, 2013. Accessed May 24, 2017. "In what has become a time-honored homecoming tradition, three new honorees were inducted into the Long Beach High School Wall of Fame. Eric Foner, Steven Libutti and Thomas Parker took their place among the other distinguished graduates and community members as an inspiration to the youth of Long Beach."
  18. Kellard, Joseph. "Long Beach’s Charlie McAvoy impresses in NHL debut; 19-year-old starts career in playoffs with the Boston Bruins", Long Beach Herald, April 19, 2017. Accessed May 24, 2017. "McAvoy attended Long Beach High School and joined its varsity hockey team as a freshman in 2012. That October, however, Hurricane Sandy battered the town, and the team was unable to play home games because of storm damage at the arena. He went on to play for the U.S. National Development Team in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he completed the remainder of his high school career in two years."
  19. Ford, Luke. The Producers: Profiles in Frustration, p. 463. iUniverse, 2004. ISBN 9780595320165. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Scherick attended the public (and largely Jewish) Long Beach High School."
  20. Slovinsky, Louis J. Alan Siegel: On Branding and Clear Communications, p. 166. Jorge Pinto Books Inc., 2007. ISBN 9780979076640. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Siegel attracted considerable attention for his basketball prowess at Long Beach High School on Long Island in 1955 and 1956, when he was selected by Dell magazine as one of the top players in the country."
  21. Costello, Alex. " Long Beach High School Wall of Fame Adds Three New Inductees; They included players and coaches who all showed incredible skill and sportsmanship.", Long Beach Patch, October 10, 2016. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Second was Will Skudin -- an expert waterman, a world-class surfer and a philanthropist. During his time in the district, he earned All-County and State Qualifier honors with the varsity swim team."
  22. Higgins, Matt. "A Talented Surfer, No Matter the Locale", The New York Times, June 25, 2009. Accessed May 24, 2017. "After spending time in Hawaii again next fall and winter, he plans to return home to complete his senior year at Long Beach High School, graduate and attend the prom."
  23. Baseball-Reference page for Don Taussig
  24. Staff. "Candidate Profile: Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg", Long Beach patch, October 2, 2012. Accessed May 24, 2017. "Weisenberg graduated from Long Beach High School in 1952."
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