Hempstead High School (New York)
Hempstead High School is a public high school located in Hempstead, New York, United States. As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,226 students and 116.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 19.2:1. There were 1,346 students (60.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 34 (1.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. History. In the early 20th century, high school students from East Meadow, Roosevelt, Uniondale (East Hempstead), and West Hempstead, in addition to Hempstead Village, all attended Hempstead High School . The tuition to Hempstead SD #1 was paid by the neighboring Common School Districts. It was not until the late 1950s that the last of these school districts built their own high schools. In July 1970, the original Hempstead High School was burned down under presumably suspicious circumstances only 20 minutes after summer school classes were dismissed for the day.<ref>