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.
Famous quotes containing the words senior, high and/or school:
“Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn’t mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn’t mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.”
—Laurence Steinberg (20th century)
“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)