Sheepshead Bay High School is a public high school in Brooklyn

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Mission

Sheepshead Bay High School is a large, multi-cultural high school in Brooklyn, New York. There are currently 2,673 students enrolled, in grades 9 through 12. The largest group is African American (65.2%), followed by Hispanics (15.7%), Asian or of Asian descent (9.9%) and white (8.5%). 580 students are English language learners, and around 400 are special education students.

Famous alumni

• Elayne Boosler
  Elayne Boosler
  Elayne Boosler is an American comedian.Boosler was born and raised in Brooklyn, the youngest child and only daughter of a Russian-acrobat father and a Romanian-ballerina mother...
  
   (class of 1969) - Comedian
• Frank Brooks
  Frank Brooks
  Frank J. Brooks is a Major League Baseball player who currently plays in the Atlantic League for the Somerset Patriots...
  
   – major league baseball player
• Larry David
  Larry David
  Lawrence Gene "Larry" David is an American actor, writer, comedian and producer. He is best known as the co-creator , head writer, and executive producer of the television series Seinfeld from 1989 to 1996, and for creating the 1999 HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, a partially improvised sitcom in...
  
   (1965) – Producer, writer and comedian
• Terry Gross
  Terry Gross
  Terry Gross is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview format radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio....
  
   (1968) – Radio talk-show host
• Michael Isaacson
  Michael Isaacson
  Michael Isaacson is an influential composer of Jewish synagogue music, as well as one of the originators of the Jewish Camp Song movement...
  
   (1963) - Composer/Conductor, author of "What Makes Music Jewish?"
• Joey Novick (1972) – Comedian and lawyer
• Donna Pescow
  Donna Pescow
  Donna Pescow is an American film and television actress and director.-Life and career:Pescow was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family. Her father owned and ran a news stand in downtown NYC at Battery Place. Pescow attended Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn and she took drama classes...
  
   (1972) – Actress
• Rico Petrocelli
  Rico Petrocelli
  Americo Peter "Rico" Petrocelli is an American retired baseball shortstop and third baseman who played his entire career in the American League with the Boston Red Sox...
  
   (1961) – Major League Baseball player
• Fred Stoller
  Fred Stoller
  Frederick "Fred" Stoller is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and voice artist, best known for his frequent guest starring as Gerard on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond...
  
   - Stand-up comedian/actor/writer/voice artist
• Masta Ace
  Masta Ace
  Duval Clear , known better by his stage name Masta Ace, is a rapper from Brownsville, Brooklyn. He appeared on the classic 1988 Juice Crew posse cut "The Symphony"...
  
   - Rapper
• Tanisha Thomas (class of 2004) - Cast member of Bad Girls Club season 2.