John F. Kennedy High School (Bellmore, New York)
John F. Kennedy High School is a public high school located in Bellmore, New York. It is one of three high schools in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District.
Bellmore JFK High School | |
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Address | |
3000 Bellmore Ave , | |
Coordinates | 40°39′04″N 73°31′30″W |
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Type | Public school |
Established | 1966 |
Principal | Mr. Gerard Owerburg
Mr. Daniel Jantzen(Assistant Principal) Dr. Marie A. Netto (Assistant Principal) Mr. Vincent Pisano (Assistant Principal) |
Faculty | 78.51 FTEs[1] |
Enrollment | 1,040 (2018-19)[2] |
Student to teacher ratio | 13.25[1] |
Campus | Suburban |
Color(s) | Dartmouth green and gray/silver |
Nobel laureates | Paul Krugman (2008) |
Mascot | Cougar |
Website | www |
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,189 students and 79.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.0:1. There were 56 students (4.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 7 (0.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[1]
The school is open during normal school months. Its newspaper is the Cougar Crier.[3] In local athletics, this school is referred to as Bellmore JFK to avoid confusion with the nearby Plainview JFK.
District
There are four other schools in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District: Wellington C. Mepham High School, Sanford H. Calhoun High School, Merrick Avenue Middle School, and Grand Avenue Middle School. About 6,050 students are enrolled at the school district, with approximately 1,200 students in each school.
Bellmore JFK is known for its men and women's volleyball teams.
Notable alumni
The Official Alumni Association of the high school is called: Bellmore JFK Alumni, Inc. The link to the website is here. Link to Alumni that have been inducted to the JFK Hall of Fame is here.
- Tim Canova, politician and law professor
- Doug Ellin, creator of Entourage
- Paul Feinman (born 1960), New York State Court of Appeals judge
- Amy Fisher, convicted of the 1992 shooting of wife of her lover
- Bill Freiberger, Emmy-nominated writer and producer of The Simpsons, The PJs, and Drawn Together
- Artie Kempner, Director for NFL on Fox and Nascar
- Michael Kors (born 1959), fashion designer
- Paul Krugman (born 1953), economist, Princeton University Professor, and columnist for The New York Times, Nobel Prize in economics
- Steve Levy (born 1965), host of ESPN SportsCenter
- Scott Lipsky (born 1981), tennis player
- Daryl Palumbo, vocalist of Glassjaw and vocalist for Head Automatica
- Marc Rowan , (born 1962) Co-Founder Apollo Capital Management, Billionaire Philanthropist
- Noah Rubin (born 1996), tennis player
- Adam Schefter, ESPN football analyst
- Marc Slutsky, musician
- Jason Smilovic, writer and producer
- Laurence Traiger (born 1956), composer and musicologist
- Mike Greenberg, Director of Football Administration, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
References
- Notes
- School data for John F Kennedy High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.
- "JOHN F KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 12, 2020.
- Cougar Crier On-Line Archived 2010-05-18 at the Wayback Machine