The Wheatley School

The Wheatley School (historically known as East Williston Junior–Senior High School) is a public high school serving grades 8 through 12 located in Old Westbury, New York. It is the East Williston Union Free School District's sole high school.The Wheatley School website, accessed March 16, 2012. The school district encompasses all of East Williston and parts of Mineola, Albertson, Old Westbury, and Roslyn Heights.

History The school opened in 1956 as East Williston Junior–Senior High School. It was designed by the Manhattan-based architectural firm, LaPierre, Litchfield & Partners. The single-story school was designed to allow for easy building expansion, should the need arise.

Demographics As of the 2018-19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 711 students and 63.87 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.13:1. There were 37 students (5.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 1 student (0.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Wheatley School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.

Notable alumni

Carol Alt - model/actress/author Rick Berman - executive producer of several of the Star Trek television series Arthur Engoron - Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County Steve Witkoff - real estate developer, US Special Envoy Todd Glickman - radio meteorologist Rick Hoffman - actor Winnie Holzman - creator of My So Called Life, writer of thirtysomething and Wicked Anthony Katagas - Oscar-winning film producer Michael D. Ratner - entrepreneur and film producer Stephanie Klein - blogger and writer Nicole Krauss - writer Stefan P. Kruszewski - clinical and forensic psychiatrist, fraud investigator Ned Lagin - musician Carol Leifer - Seinfeld writer, comedian Mike Masters - professional soccer player Carlos Mendes - professional soccer player Shep Messing - professional soccer player Larry Nagler (born 1940) – tennis player Dave Rothenberg - sports radio host, ESPN Steven Rubenstein - anthropologist Daniel Schwartz - CEO of Burger King Anita Silvers - philosopher, interested in medical ethics, bioethics, feminism, disability studies Ian H. Solomon - Dean of Frank Batten School at the University of Virginia, former Executive Director of the World Bank. Steven Starr - filmmaker, media activist Mitchell Stephens - journalist and professor of journalism and mass communications at New York University Todd Strasser - writer Dan Weiss - CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Wheatley School

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