Coalition for Glen Cove

Glen Cove school buildings and services

The elementary schools

Pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students go to Deasy and Gribbin Schools. Third and fourth grade students go to Connolly and Landing Schools. Each school has a gymnasium, a reading lab, a resource room, a lunchroom that serves breakfast and lunch, a library and a well-equipped playground. The pre-kindergarten program is based on economic need. Also available are a Gifted and Talented Program for third and fourth-graders, and diagnostic screening, psychological, speech, and remedial services.

The Finley Middle School

Students in fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades go to the Finley Middle School which contains the Wunsch Auditorium and a unified arts center for home economics, fine arts, and industrial arts as well as reading and computer labs, a resource room, a library and audio-visual center, a cafeteria, and a physical education complex including playing and ball fields.

The Middle School offers an honors program and three foreign languages, and was one of the first in the country to adopt team teaching, which is now used by many other districts.

Glen Cove High School

Students in ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades go to Glen Cove High School which has an auditorium, a library and media center, two multi-purpose gyms, a cafeteria, an educational television studio, an electronic music lab, science labs, a research lab, technology rooms, and a large athletic complex. 

College level Advanced Placement courses in American history, English, American government, calculus, physics, biology, chemistry, and computer science are available to high school students.

Football, baseball, softball, soccer, track, cross-country, lacrosse, volleyball, golf, basketball, and tennis teams as well as drama, literary, business, government, service, academic, and music clubs are active in the high school.

High school class schedules and free periods

The high school day is divided into 9 periods of 41 minutes each, starting at 7:30 AM and ending at 2:06 PM. Teachers are available for after-school help from 2:06 to 2:31 every day.

High school freshmen and sophomores register for 8 courses and have one period free for lunch. Juniors and seniors register for at least 7 courses (including physical education) and can have as many as two periods each day free for lunch, visiting the library, or other activities. Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are required to remain on the school grounds from 7:30 to 2:06. Seniors in good academic standing are allowed to leave the campus during their free periods.

There are no study halls in the high school. Most districts no longer have study halls because they have found that little studying gets done and oppressive discipline is required to get students to sit quietly for 41 minutes. A study hall requires at least one teacher and that teacher can use his or her time more efficiently and economically actually teaching.

Attendance

All students must attend all their classes and must arrive at every class on time. If a student misses a class the teacher requires him or her to spend one hour in detention after school either in the teacher’s office or in the detention room. If a student does not appear for detention a student attendance manager talks to him and he is required to spend an hour in the detention room. If a student does not appear in the detention room a school administrator suspends the student from school for one day and arranges an appointment with a guidance counselor. If the student does not appear for his meeting with the counselor, the high school principal suspends him for three days and the student cannot return to school until his parent meets with the principal. If the student and parent do not appear, a conference is called with the superintendent, the principal, the parent, and the student and the student may be sent to an alternative school or other arrangements for out-of-school education may be made.

If a student is absent from a class more than 25 times in a single year (there are 180 class meetings per year) the student is given no credit for that course and must repeat the course the next year or in summer school.

Dress Code

Students must wear shoes and clean and modest clothes to school. A student may be barred from school for wearing an article that is disruptive to instruction. Students may not wear any headgear in the classroom except as part of a recognized religious practice. Students may wear or display buttons, armbands, flags, decals, or other badges of symbolic expression provided that they do not intrude upon the orderly process of the school or the rights of others, but no symbolic expression may contain material which is obscene or libelous or which advocates racial or religious prejudice. The schools may not make limitations on dress for which style, fashion, or taste is the sole consideration.

Computers

The district  has a strong computer science program with courses in keyboarding, word processing, and programming..  There is a voice and video connection in every classroom and data connections in classrooms, computer labs and offices. All classrooms have a teacher computer and from one to four student computers, each having access to the Internet. Every classroom has a networked printer, a large screen television attached to the teacher computer, and a VCR. Each school building has a scanner and a digital camera. All school offices have a computer and printer.

Transportation

The district provides busing to and from school for students in kindergarten, first, second, third, and fourth grades who live more than one mile from their schools. The district provides busing to and from school for students in fifth, to twelfth grades who live more than one and a half miles from their schools. According to law, the district also provides busing for students who go to private and parochial schools less than fifteen miles from their homes.

Additional information

Additional information about the operation of the Glen Cove schools can be found in the School District Calendar and Guide, available from Thayer House at 759-7213 and in the Glen Cove High School Student Handbook available from the high school principal’s office at 759-7261.