Sachem High School East | |
Streetaddress: | 177 Granny Road |
Motto: | We are Sachem |
City: | Farmingville |
State: | New York |
Zipcode: | 11738 |
Country: | United States |
Type: | Public high school |
Established: | 2004 |
District: | Sachem School District |
Principal: | Lou Antonetti |
Grades: | 9-12 |
Enrollment: | 2,152 (2019-20)[1] |
Ratio: | 12.22 |
Teaching Staff: | 176.10 (FTE) |
Nickname: | Arrows |
Sachem High School East is a public secondary school located in Farmingville, New York, United States. Along with Sachem High School North, it is one of the two high schools in the Sachem School District.[2]
The school was founded in 2004, and was filled with students from the former Sachem High School South, which closed and was absorbed into Samoset Middle School.
Sachem East fields a number of varsity and junior varsity teams in the Section 11 Athletic Conference. Teams at Sachem East include:
A number of teams have won national, state, or regional championships. These include:
Sachem East offers many of the Advanced Placement programs offered by the College Board, as well as many honors courses. It offers Spanish, French and Italian as foreign languages that can be taken. The school also offers classes in culinary arts, engineering, 3D printing, and cosmetology (which upon completion grants the student a cosmetology license). Sachem East has partnered with Eastern Suffolk BOCES to allow students to take courses through BOCES.
Sachem East offers many clubs for students to join. It also has chapters for many national honor societies including Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Business, Technology, Art, Music, and the National Honor Society. The school also fields several academic teams, such as History Bowl teams (the junior varsity 2017–18 team made it to the national competition in Washington, D.C.) and a DECA team.
Gender | Students | Percent | |
---|---|---|---|
Female | 1,194 | 50.4% | |
Male | 1,173 | 49.6% | |
Total | 2,367 | 100% |
Race | Students | Percent | |
---|---|---|---|
American Indian or Alaska Native | 5 | 0.21% | |
Asian/Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander | 136 | 5.7% | |
Black or African American | 44 | 1.9% | |
Hispanic/Latino | 211 | 8.9% | |
White | 1958 | 82.7% | |
Multiracial | 13 | 0.55% | |
Total | 2367 | 100% [6] |