The Wheatley School
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| The Wheatley School | |
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 The Wheatley School's front entrance in 2012 | |
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11 Bacon Road , 11568 | |
| Coordinates | 40°45′44″N 73°36′58″W / 40.76222°N 73.61611°W |
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| Funding type | Public school |
| Motto | Veritatem Quaerite (Seek the Truth) |
| Established | 1956[1] |
| Locale | Suburb: Large |
| School district | East Williston School District |
| NCES District ID | 3610050[2]. |
| Superintendent | Danielle Gately |
| CEEB code | 334293 [3] |
| NCES School ID | 361005000781[4]. |
| Principal | Wayne Jensen |
| Asst. principal | Mary Alexis Pace and Bryan Sarandrea |
| Faculty | 63.87 FTEs[5] |
| Enrollment | 711 (as of 2018-19)[5] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.13:1[5] |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Colors | Red, White |
| Sports | Baseball,[6] Basketball(Boys/Girls),[7] Cross Country(Boys/Girls), Fencing(Boys/Girls), Field Hockey(Girls), Football,[8] Golf, Ice Hockey(Boys),[9] Lacrosse(Boys/Girls), Soccer(Boys/Girls),[10][11][12] Tennis (Boys/Girls), Track and Field(Boys/Girls), Volleyball(Girls),[13] Wrestling |
| Mascot | Wildcat |
| Team name | Wildcats [11] |
| Rival | Roslyn High School |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools[14] |
| National ranking | Newsweek: 92,[15] U.S. News & World Report:108 [16] |
| Publication | Literary Magazine (Vintage) [17] |
| Newspaper | Wildcat [18] |
| Yearbook | Aurora [19] |
| Feeder schools | Willets Road School |
| Website | tws |
The Wheatley School (historically known as East Williston Junior–Senior High School) is a public high school serving grades 8 through 12 located in Old Westbury, New York. It is the East Williston Union Free School District's sole high school.[20] The school district encompasses all of East Williston and parts of Mineola, Albertson, Old Westbury, and Roslyn Heights.
Demographics
As of the 2018-19 school year, the school had an enrollment of 711 students and 63.87 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.13:1. There were 37 students (5.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 1 student (0.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[5]
Notable alumni
- Carol Alt - model/actress/author[23]
- Rick Berman - executive producer of several of the Star Trek television series
- Arthur Engoron - Justice, New York State Supreme Court, New York County [24][25]
- Steve Witkoff - real estate developer, US Special Envoy
- Todd Glickman - radio meteorologist[26]
- Rick Hoffman - actor [27]
- Winnie Holzman - creator of My So Called Life, writer of thirtysomething[28] and Wicked
- Anthony Katagas - Oscar-winning film producer
- Michael D. Ratner - entrepreneur and film producer
- Stephanie Klein - blogger and writer[29]
- Katy Krassner - co-host of WHOOOSH! on SiriusXM [30]
- Nicole Krauss - writer
- Stefan P. Kruszewski - clinical and forensic psychiatrist, fraud investigator [31]
- Ned Lagin - musician
- Carol Leifer - Seinfeld writer, comedian [32]
- Mike Masters - professional soccer player [33]
- Carlos Mendes - professional soccer player [33]
- Shep Messing - professional soccer player
- Larry Nagler (born 1940) – tennis player
- Dave Rothenberg - sports radio host, ESPN
- Steven Rubenstein - anthropologist
- Daniel Schwartz - CEO of Burger King
- Anita Silvers - philosopher, interested in medical ethics, bioethics, feminism, disability studies
- Ian H. Solomon - Dean of Frank Batten School at the University of Virginia, former Executive Director of the World Bank.[34][35]
- Steven Starr - filmmaker, media activist
- Mitchell Stephens - journalist and professor of journalism and mass communications at New York University
- Todd Strasser - writer[36]
- Dan Weiss - CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art[34]
