Miller Place High School
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| Miller Place High School |
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| Motto | "Striving for Excellence" |
| Type | Public School |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Location | Miller Place, New York, United States |
| Website | www.millerplace.k12.ny.us |
Miller Place High School is a public school of the Miller Place Union Free School District along the north shore of Long Island. It is the only high school of the district and contains classes from grades 9-12. The school has been ranked the 78th best school in the United States.
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[edit] Location
Miller Place High School is located in the hamlet of Miller Place, Suffolk County, New York, United States.
[edit] Courses
A number of Advanced Placement (AP) classes are offered in the school. Of notable popularity are AP World History and AP United States History.
[edit] Sports
The school is known for being the home of the Miller Place Panthers High School badminton team, a group that remained undefeated from 1973 until the streak's end in 2005 at 504 straight games.
Miller Place High School's Girl's Field Hockey team has made two consecutive trips to the state championship events. Other notable sports are the school's wrestling and basketball teams.
[edit] Clubs
Among the current clubs are the following-
- Drama Club
- Entre Nous
- Future Business Leaders of America
- Mathletes
- Media
- National Honor Society
- Students Against Destructive Decisions
- Varsity Club
[edit] Science Research
The Miller Place High School contains a Science Research class, which annually participates in events such as the Science Bowl and Science Olympiad, as well as in the Intel Science Talent Search.
[edit] Controversy
"A Long Island family has filed a $5 million civil rights lawsuit against their son's high school, claiming it did nothing to stop students from text-messaging racial slurs and scrawling an offensive word on his locker.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Central Islip on Monday, says administrators at the nationally ranked Miller Place High School failed to stop the mistreatment of ninth grader Brian Orr, one of few black students in a school population of 950.
The complaint says the incidents began last April with the text messages and graffiti. His locker also was spat at and Orr was hit after football practices, the complaint says.
"Scarring Brian Orr's locker with racist filth underlines the fear of and barely repressed resentment of minorities in the district," said the Orrs' attorney, John Ray.
In one incident, he said, Orr was provoked into a hallway fight by a student who led the bullying. Both were suspended for three days, but the district failed to acknowledge that racial abuse was at the root of the fight and found that equal punishment was in order, Ray said.
Grace Brindley, the interim superintendent who is named as a defendant with other administrators, responded: "There is no merit to this lawsuit. Regrettably, the school district cannot respond to these frivolous accusations because of the laws governing confidentiality regarding student behavior."
