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Date Added: 6/26/2025

The week before graduation, Deer Park High School’s seniors strolled down memory lane, taking buses across town to visit John Quincy Adams Primary School and May Moore Primary School, the places where they had begun their Falcons educational journey a dozen or more years ago. The soon-to-be graduates walked the halls and visited their old cafeterias and gyms, nostalgically wearing placards with photos of themselves as grade schoolers.

Date Added: 6/24/2025

The Deer Park School District has been named a Best Community for Music Education by the NAMM Foundation once again. For the past 26 years, the Best Communities designation has recognized outstanding efforts by teachers, administrators, parents, students and community leaders in prioritizing music education. Deer Park was one of only 69 Long Island school districts and 935 nationwide to earn NAMM’s distinction this year.

Date Added: 6/23/2025

Deer Park High School juniors Kayla Cruz and Ava Sacarin were named first place winners in the Medicine/Health category at the American Chemical Society’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Chemagination Competition, held on May 31 at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

Chemagination challenges high school students to imagine that they are living 25 years in the future and have been invited to write an article describing a breakthrough or innovation in chemistry that has improved the quality of people's lives from 2025 to the year 2050. Cruz and Sacarin had previously won the local Chemagination contest on March 7 at St. John’s University in Queens. Their project focused on contact lenses designed to detect glucose levels in tears and monitor the health of the wearers.

Date Added: 6/18/2025

Deer Park High School held its annual senior awards on June 3, with high school administrators and district directors presenting numerous departmental awards – business, English language arts and reading, family and consumer science, fine arts, performing arts, health and physical education, mathematics, science and technology education, social studies, world language and English as a new language, and guidance and counseling – to 103 well-deserving recipients from the schools Class of 2025.

Principal Charles Cobb welcomed the seniors and their families, and lovely music was provided by the school’s string quintet.

Date Added: 6/17/2025