Sachem High School East is a public secondary school located in Farmingville, New York, United States. Along with Sachem High School North, it is one of the two high schools in the Sachem Central School District.
History The school was founded in 2004, populated by students from the former Sachem High School South, which closed and was rebranded to Samoset Middle School.
Athletics A number of teams have won national, state, or regional championships. These include:
Varsity Field Hockey-Long Island Champions 2014, 2018 Varsity Cheerleading-National Title 2016 Girls' Varsity Basketball-NYS Champion 2010
Academics Sachem East offers many of the Advanced Placement programs offered by the College Board, as well as many honors courses. It offers Spanish, French and Italian as foreign languages that can be taken. The school also offers classes in culinary arts, engineering, 3D printing, and cosmetology (which upon completion grants the student a cosmetology license). Sachem East has partnered with Eastern Suffolk BOCES to allow students to take courses through BOCES.
Demographics + Gender 2015-2016Gender StudentsPercent Female 1,194 50.4% Male 1,173 49.6% Total 2,367 100%
+ Race 2015-2016 Race StudentsPercentAmerican Indian or Alaska Native 5 0.21%Asian/Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander 136 5.7%Black or African American 44 1.9%Hispanic/Latino 211 8.9%White 1958 82.7%Multiracial 13 0.55% Total 2367 100%
Notable alumni Keith Kinkaid – NHL goalie for the New York Rangers Jeff Ruland – former NBA player with the Washington Bullets and coach of Iona University Gaels men's basketball team Marc Sebastian – fashion model, stylist, and activist Skylar Spence – musician
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