Village School (Great Neck, New York)
| Village School | |
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| Address | |
| 614 Middle Neck Road Great Neck, New York 11023 USA |
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| Information | |
| Established | 1971[1] |
| Opened | 1970[2] |
| Principal | Stephen Goldberg[3] |
| Website | gnvs.weebly.com/ |
Village School (also known as VS)[1] is an American long-established public alternative school.[4] It is a member of Coalition of Essential Schools[5] and is located in the village of Great Neck, New York, serving students in grades 8 through 12.[6] Village School is one of three high schools in the Great Neck School District, which includes Great Neck North High School and Great Neck South High School.[7] Village School offers its 39 students[8] an outdoor education program,[9] college preparatory program,[10] and inclusion of students with disabilities.[11]
Co-founder Arnie Langberg has been called "one of the most important pioneers in the field of public alternative education."[12]
Village School is home to the newspaper 'The Villager.[13]
Students
Students who enroll must be considered at risk academically for an array of reasons.[14] The students must be in danger of getting lost in Great Neck’s two large, comprehensive high schools or becoming overwhelmed by their large high schools.[15] Students may have social and emotional problems.[15] The students may also face anxiety and difficulties with focus and organization.[15] In the Village School’s low-key approach, these issues can be dealt with easily.[15] Students who may have felt lost and isolated in a large school often thrive in the smaller and more personalized setting of the Village School.[1] In the 2010-2011 school year, 39 students attended Village School.[8] However, Village School can enroll up to 50 students.[16] About fifty percent of students qualify for special education.[4]
Demographics
The student body in the school year of 2010-2011 consists of:[8]
- 0 American Indian or Alaska Native students or 0% of the student body
- 2 Black or African American students or 5% of the student body
- 4 Hispanic or Latino students or 10% of the student body
- 5 Asian or Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students or 13% of the student body
- 28 White students or 72% of the student body
- 0 Multiracial students or 0% of the student body
Notable alumni
- Nikki Blonsky, actress; transferred to the school in her sophomore year.[17]
- Jesse Friedman, who with his father Arnold was the subject of the child-molestation case documented in Capturing the Friedmans.[18]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 VILLAGE SCHOOL; URL accessed July 18, 2011.
- ↑ District History; URL accessed July 14, 2011.
- ↑ Faculty; URL accessed July 18, 2011.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ [1] Great Neck Public Schools Web site, PDF document titled "Great Neck Public Schools: The Village School", accessed October 18, 2007.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ [2], accessed July 14, 2011
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Enrollment and Demographic Factors; URL accessed August 15, 2012.
- ↑ Physical Education Learning Outside the Box, accessed July 14, 2011
- ↑ Graduation and Beyond, accessed July 14, 2011
- ↑ Page 7, accessed July 14, 2011
- ↑ [3] The quote is from Jerry Mintz, founder of the Alternative Education Resource Organization, in an interview Mintz conducted with Langberg, "Radio Interview With Arnie Langberg on the Night of the Littleton Tragedy" appearing in The Education Revolution Magazine, Summer 1999, accessed March 1, 2007
- ↑ http://villager.greatneck.k12.ny.us/
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ The Caring Village, accessed August 15, 2012
- ↑ Fischler, Marcelle S. "For ‘Hairspray’ Star, ‘My Darn Dream Come True’", The New York Times, July 8, 2007. Accessed July 11, 2007. "In her sophomore year, unable to find her niche, she switched from the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School to the Village School, the district’s alternative high school, with 50 students. After class, she joined the theater program at the William A. Shine Great Neck South High School..."
- ↑ "An Uphill Fight to Shed a Lifelong Label," by Corey Kilgannon. The New York Times, September 10, 2006, section 14LI, page 1.
