Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls

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Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls

Established	1992
Type	Private secondary
Principal	Helen Spirn
Faculty	43
Students	approx. 310
Grades	9-12
Location	291 Meadowview Avenue Hewlett Bay Park, New York USA
Accreditation	MSA
Website	www.skahalb.org

Stella K Abraham High School for Girls is a Modern Orthodox Judaism girls' Jewish day school, a high school for grades 9-12, located in Hewlett Bay Park, Nassau County, New York, USA. As of 2005 it had some 304 students and 43 teachers.

The school is owned by the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach which purchased the former Lawrence Country Day School 9.2 acre campus in 1992 for $2.2 million. It aims for academic excellence both in the Jewish Limudei Kodesh (Torah studies) curriculum and in secular studies. It was renamed for longtime resident Stella K Abraham in 1994.

1 History
2 Awards and competitions
3 See also
4 Notes and references
5 External links

[edit] History

The Hebrew Academy's purchase of the site in affluent Hewlett Bay Park caused enormous controversy when the village sought to acquire the property through eminent domain, leading to charges of anti-semitism (even though the village has a largely Jewish population) and the filing of a $55 million civil rights lawsuit. After nearly two years of acrimony, a compromise was reached allowing the school to operate but limiting its size and the suit was dropped.

[edit] Awards and competitions

Seniors Shira Billet and Dora Sosnowik won the prestigious Siemens Westinghouse team science competition in 2001-02 with their project entitled "A Viscometer for Ultra Thin Films". The students were subsequently named to Forbes magazine's High Tech Teenage All America Team^[1] and were featured in the nanotechnology publication Small Times^[2].

The school's mock trial team won the Long Island and NY State championship in 1998, beating over 500 teams that competed in local events.

[edit] See also

List of high schools in New York

[edit] Notes and references

^ Boland, Michael, "ASAP Teenage All Stars", Forbes.com, March 25, 2002.
^ Stuart, Candace, "Teen Inventors Earn Scholarship by making MEMS devices run better", SmallTimes.com, December 4, 2001

Stuart Vincent, "Bias Charged in Plan for Ex-School- Village officials defend proposal", Newsday, July 1, 1992, pg. 33.
Josh Barbanel, "Village May Buy Property Where Yeshiva Is Planned", New York Times, July 1, 1992, pg. B5.
Stuart Vincent, "School's Suit Alleges Anti-Semitism", Newsday, August 13, 1993, pg. 31.
Stuart Vincent, "Yeshiva, Village Settle Dispute- Pact allows operation, growth", Newsday, March 16, 1994, pg. 27.
Linda F. Burghardt, "Two From Hewlett Win Science Contest", New York Times, December 9, 2001, Sec. Long Island, pg. 12.
Stacey Altherr, "Abraham H.S. Wins NY Mock Trial Event", Newsday (Melville, NY), June 7, 1998, Sec. LI Life, pg. G11.