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Shoreham-Wading River High School is located approximately seventy miles east of New York City on the beautiful North Shore of Long Island. The State University at Stony Brook and the Brookhaven National Laboratory located nearby offer a myriad of resources and opportunities for higher learning, research, internships and employment. Our district is comprised of three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school.

Exemplifying unity, the new district organized committees made up of community members to provide input on major areas of the future high school program. The district chose architects and involved the professional staff in preparing preliminary designs for the new school. Due to increasing student enrollment throughout the early part of the 1900's, several multi-district reorganization plans were discussed to meet the anticipated need for a secondary school during the 1960's and 70's. On July 1, 1973, the Shoreham-Wading River Central School District No. 1, Town of Riverhead and Brookhaven, was created. During this same year, a new middle school opened its doors to students. On October 24, 1973, resident voters approved the funds for the new high school and building began. The high school opened its doors to students in September of 1975, and sits on 40 acres of land given to the district by the federal government.

The very foundation of the Shoreham-Wading River High School rests on the concepts of unity and progress. Unity was chosen because the school was the result of the first collaborative effort between Shoreham and Wading River, in the education of their children. Progress represents the connection between the past and future of the school.

Shoreham-Wading River is a secondary school with an enrollment of approximately 800 students in grades nine through twelve. Students with vocational interests have access to several BOCES centers for training in highly specialized and technological fields of study. The high school is the center of the community. The public library, community fitness and nautilus center, exercise trail, evening tennis courts and community athletic fields are incorporated in this sprawling sixty-acre high school campus.

The high school library is an active state of the art program with 60,000+ volumes and 30 computer stations for reseach. The library program prides itself on supplying primary source materials and a critical thinking skills curriculum.

Our computer labs are equipment with 20-30 computers in each lab. Programs include word processing, spread sheets, databases, computer aided design, desktop publishing, and multi-media software. . A more detailed technology initiative is available.

Current News

A Dynamic Whirlwind of Creative Energy

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Shoreham-Wading River High School junior Isabelle Scherl wowed the Board of Education and members of the community at the April 8 meeting with her recitation of “What Baking Can Do,” a poem she penned. Isabelle was commended by Director of Humanities Nicole Waldbauer for her first-place win at the school’s Poetry Out Loud competition and her subsequent move to the state competition where she was named a runner-up.

In the words of English teacher Jennifer Nazer, Isabelle is truly “a dynamic whirlwind of creative energy.”

Date Added: 4/10/2025

Senior Skyler Hunt Honored By BOE

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Shoreham-Wading River High School Senior Skylar Hunt was honored at the April 8 Board of Education meeting for her exceptional journalism work.

Director of Humanities Nicole Waldbauer lauded Skylar for receiving a Quill Award at Adelphi University Press Day. The award was for best sports story for her reporting on the Thanksgiving Day Race honoring the legacy of SWR Coach Paul Koretzki. 

Students in the journalism class and club attended the event with English teacher

Vincent Ball. Additionally, the editors of the Wildcat Pause — Giovanna Aceto, Lukas Brand, Ayla Kops and Alyssa Wood — accepted the third-place award

for best newspaper layout at Press Day, as noted by Mrs. Waldbauer.

Date Added: 4/9/2025

 

Taste of Immigration Food Fest

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Shoreham-Wading River High School’s United States History and Government students celebrated their Immigration Unit with a “Taste of Immigration Food Fest.”

Students worked with family members to create dishes from their ethnic backgrounds. Many of these dishes were family recipes.

“We had foods ranging from cannolis from Italy to Byrek Me Spinaq from Albania,” social studies teacher Erica Scully said.

While preparing the dishes, students also learned personal stories from their families' own immigration journeys.

 

Date Added: 4/7/2025