South Side High School (Rockville Centre, New York)
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South Side High School is the only public high school in the town of Rockville Centre, New York. South Side serves grades 9 through 12 and boasts a variety of academic, extra-curricular and athletic programs. School district boundaries can be found in Rockville Centre and South Hempstead. Currently South Side is ranked #32 in the nation by Newsweek's 100 Greatest Schools List.
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[edit] The School
The school itself has multiple entrances located in various points around the perimeter in Rockville Centre and Baldwin. Despite these multiple entrances the primary address for South Side is an off site education program of South Side High School located further south in Rockville Centre called the "Greenhouse". Established in the 1970's the purpose of this offsite school is to provide a different approach to teaching students with academic or personal troubles as well as different scheduling and academic programs. The main building has two floors.
[edit] Available Courses
[edit] IB Program
South Side High School is one of the schools in the IB program. It has multiple IB courses, ranging from IB math to IB music theory.
[edit] Athletics
[edit] Boys Sports
Spring 2005 Boys Track & Field
Nassau County Champions
NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONS
Final Record 44-0
Kieran Wallis set a school and New York State record when he ran 1:47:97 in the 800m and 4:01:06 in the 1600m.
Terence Moriarty set a Eastern Region Record in the 2 miles with a time of 8:53:00 and he also beat the old state record in the mile but was slightly beaten by teammate Kieran Wallis who now holds the record. Terence ran a rime of 4:01:89.
Connor Geraghty threw a County Record 64'8" in the Shotput while running every 100m race under 11.0 seconds with his fastest time being 10.5 seconds, which clearly put him ahead of the rest of the competition in the county.
Kurt Joseph, Mikey, Neil and Sam Levy ran the 4x800 in a time of 7:22:42.
Coach Bohman decided to retire on top after this season. Coach Bohman was also named National HS Coach of the year by Sports Illustrated for Kids and Co-National Coach of the year by ESPN The Magazine, he shared that title with Coach Daniel Lafferty from Gilmore HS in Salem Oregon. They went 38-1.
[edit] Lacrosse
In June 2004, senior lacrosse player, Mike Horn, set a national record by scoring 10 goals in the Nassau County championship game against Bethpage. Mike has been compared to lacrosse greats such as the Powell's, the White's, and Gary Gait. He is currently the leading scorer in the Australia Elite League, playing for Sidney Skyhawks.
