Division Avenue High School
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located at 120 Division Avenue in Levittown, New York
Levittown, New York
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. It is one of two traditional high schools in the Levittown Union Free School District
Levittown Union Free School District
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and one of four high schools in the hamlet of Levittown in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County
Nassau County
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on Long Island
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, New York. It was opened in 1950 and remains one of the original school buildings in the district.
Dr. Francesco Ianni is the principal of the school. There are two Assistant Principals; Linda Dolecek and Craig Arvelo-Shaw.
In 2008, Newsweek ranked the school 1,127 on list of top 1,300 schools. In 2007, it was ranked 873. and in 2006, it was ranked as 1,059.
Extracurricular activities
Division has over 60 after-school clubs available to students.Art Club Art Honor Society Author's Club Best Buddies Chamber Choir Chemistry Club Chess Club Cooking Club DECA Drama Club Engineering Club Fashion Club Foreign Language Honor Society |
Gay/Straight Alliance History Club Humanitarian Club Jazz Band Key Club Marching Band Mathletes Model Congress MSG Varsity Club National Honor Society Newspaper Club Peer Leaders Photography Club Physics Olympics |
Robotics Club SADD SABS Club School Store Science Olympiad Student Council TRI-M Music Honor Society Yearbook Club |
Sports
Division has over 25 varsity and junior varsity level athletic teams. They include badminton, baseball, basketball (boys and girls) bowling, football, lacrosse (boys and girls), soccer (boys and girls), softball, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling.The Division Avenue football team were the 1996 New York State Rutgers Cup champions.
Pressbox/Bleacher Fire
According to Arson/Bomb Squad detectives, the Levittown Fire Department responded Sunday January 3rd, 2010 at 2:50 p.m. with five trucks and 50 firefighters to a 911 call for smoke in the vicinity of the concession stand at Division Avenue High School’s football field.The blaze, deemed suspicious, caused “extensive damage” estimated at more than $200,000, say investigators, to the bleachers, gym equipment, rubberized track and concession stand. There were no reported injuries. The football field and school were unoccupied at the time of the inferno.
An investigation by the Nassau County Fire Marshal’s Office, Arson/Bomb Squad and Eighth Squad was completed in April of 2010, and the students, between the ages of 11 and 13, have been reprimanded, and the costs to the property have been delegated to the families of the children.
The cause of the fire was ruled as an arson with gasoline.