Lynbrook Senior High School (commonly known as Lynbrook High School) is the four-year public high school located in the village of Lynbrook, NY in Nassau County on Long Island. The school district draws a geographically wide student body, foremost from the village of Lynbrook and also parts of neighboring Hewlett, Hewlett Harbor, East Rockaway as well as a small portion of Malverne and Valley Stream.
Lynbrook High School is recognized by the United States Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. LHS has also received a Newsday award for community service and was the first recipient of Nassau County's newly created sportsmanship award for demonstrating the best character across all sports.
Lynbrook Senior High School offers a wide range of competitive academics and it's student body is often regarded as driven. It's students chronically earn high state and regional test scores. Class size is typically small with an average of 250 to 300 students per grade.
The school has excellent academic, athletic, performing arts, and other extracurricular programs; typically produces several All-County athletes and musicians, has won many county and state team sport championships, and has a consistently award-winning high school newspaper, Horizon.
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