Long Beach High School is a public high school in Lido Beach, New York, serving the Long Beach City School District in Long Beach, New York. The school has a 30 acre campus. As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,324 students and 109.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.1:1. There were 302 students (22.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 40 (3.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

History

Long Beach Junior Senior High School was built in 1939 on Lindell Boulevard in Long Beach. Later, this building was converted to an elementary school and the high school moved to Lido Beach, at the site of what is now the Lido Elementary/Long Beach Middle School complex. Construction of the current location of Long Beach High School, between Lagoon Drive West and Blackheath Road, was completed in 1971. Recently, the school adopted the International Baccalaureate program and currently offers the IB Diploma,

Athletics

The school's teams are known as the Marines with a Bulldog as the mascot. They currently compete in District Eight of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association. The sports offered at the school include: Fall Sports: Cross Country (Separate Male and Female Teams), Football, Cheerleading, Soccer (Separate Male and Female Teams), Badminton (Male Team), Swimming (Female Team), Volleyball (Separate Male and Female Teams), Tennis (Female Team), and the Surf Team (New York State's Only High School Surf Team (Co-Ed)) Winter Sports: Basketball (Separate Male and Female Teams), Swimming (Male Team), Cheerleading, Gymnastics, Winter Track (Separate Male and Female Teams), Wrestling (4X New York State Champions, 16 individual New York State Champions (the most in Nassau County history). and Ice Hockey (Male Team)(Three time New York state small school high school champions 2005, 2010–11 and 2011–12) Spring Sports: Baseball (Male Team), Softball (Female Team), Golf (Separate Male and Female Teams), Spring Track (Separate Male and Female Teams), Lacrosse (Separate Male and Female Teams), Tennis (Male Team), and Badminton (Female Team)

Notable alumni