Our Schools

History

Shoreham-Wading River High School is located approximately seventy miles east of New York City on the beautiful North Shore of Long Island. The State University at Stony Brook and the Brookhaven National Laboratory located nearby offer a myriad of resources and opportunities for higher learning, research, internships and employment. Our district is comprised of three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school.

The very foundation of the Shoreham-Wading River High School rests on the concepts of unity and progress. Unity was chosen because the school was the result of the first collaborative effort between Shoreham and Wading River, in the education of their children.  Progress represents the connection between the past and future of the school.

Due to increasing student enrollment throughout the early part of the 1900's, several multi-district reorganization plans were discussed to meet the anticipated need for a secondary school during the 1960's and 70's. On July 1, 1973, the Shoreham-Wading River Central School District No. 1, Town of Riverhead and Brookhaven, was created. During this same year, a new middle school opened its doors to students.

Exemplifying unity , the new district organized committees made up of community members to help advise on major areas of the future high school program. The district chose architects and involved the professional staff in preparing preliminary designs for the new school. On October 24, 1973, resident voters approved the funds for the new high school and building began. The high school opened its doors to students in September of 1975, and sits on 40 acres of land given to the district by the federal government.

Shoreham-Wading River is a college preparatory secondary school with an enrollment of approximately 800 students in grades nine through twelve.   Students with vocational interests have access to several BOCES centers for training in highly specialized and technological fields of study. The high school is the center of the community. The public library, community fitness and nautilus center, exercise trail, evening tennis courts and community athletic fields are incorporated in this sprawling sixty-acre high school campus.

The high school library is an active state of the art program with 60,000+ volumes and thirty computer stations for information retrieval. This programs prides itself on supplying primary source materials and a critical thinking skills curriculum. In 1995, we became one of the first New York State electronic doorways libraries. The library is also equipped with an internet lab.

Our four computer classrooms are equipment with 18 to 24 Pentium computers in each lab. Three large screen Gateway Destination computers are available for classroom presentations. Programs include word processing, spread sheets, data bases, computer aided design, desktop publishing, and multi-media software.   Our classrooms are all equipped with at least one Pentium computer. A more detailed technology initiative is currently in progress and is due to be completed in the near future.

All teachers and counselors serve as personal advisors to approximately 12 to 15 students by grade level. The first ten minutes of every day is dedicated to House Group and additional time during the week is allotted to student-house group teacher conferences and parent contact. This has proven to personalize the high school experience and allows for problems or concerns to be resolved in a more efficient way.