The Great Neck School District is a comprehensive community public school district primarily serving students in Great Neck, New York. It also serves students in some parts of Manhasset and New Hyde Park. It is Union Free School District Number 7 in the Town of North Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States.
About 6,000 students, grades K-12, attend the Great Neck Public Schools. On School Election Day, May 16, 2006, the voters of this district passed a budget of $162,315,000.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the district's ten schools had a total enrollment of 6,253 students and 585.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 10.7.
Read more about Great Neck School District: List of Schools, Former Schools
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