Public high school in the United States
Nyack High School is a secondary school inNyack, New York , which serves parts ofOrangetown andClarkstown ,New York . The original Nyack High School building is now part ofBOCES . Since 1990, Nyack High School has been located less than a mile north of the old facility, at the corner of Christian Herald Road and Highland Avenue-(U.S. Route 9W ).
Nyack High School is the solehigh school in theNyack Union Free School District inNew York . Students come to the high school from Nyack Middle School, which gathers students fromUpper Nyack , Liberty, Hilltop (now closed) andValley Cottage elementary schools .
The high school is known for itsacademic performance with 94 percent of seniors taking theSAT in 2004,[ 4] itsfootball team, itstheatrical productions and itsmusic program.[ 5]
In 1972, one of its school buses was involved in an accident getting struck by aPenn Central freight train, which killed five students and injured 46.
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