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Update on Huntington UFSD Homecoming Week 2026
After the long summer layoff, the Huntington community is just beginning to turn its attention to the looming new school year, including Homecoming Week in October. Many folks missed earlier announcements that included details of this year’s celebration.
Huntington Habitat for Humanity is on a Mission
It wasn’t long after he was hired by the Huntington UFSD to work as a dean of students at Huntington High School in 2003, that Robert Gilmor filed the paperwork to establish a Habitat for Humanity chapter.
Junior Steven Benitez Prepares for Leadership Project
Rising Huntington High School junior Steven Benitez was recently among 21 participants in a student leadership workshop in the school library, exploring with a FranklinCovey coach, meaningful community challenges and discovering how leadership can create positive change.
Student Leadership Workshop Draws 21 Huntington Teenagers
Last week’s student leadership workshop at Huntington High School drew 21 students who were earlier recommended by their teachers for participation and who accepted the opportunity to go all-in on an immersive three-day experience.
Huntington’s Freshman Seminar on August 24-26
Huntington High School’s annual Freshman Seminar is set for Monday-Wednesday, August 24-26 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Its scheduling is such that it will not interfere with varsity or JV tryouts and practices.
Important Information
June Final and Regents Information
General Announcements
- HHS School Profile - Class of 2026
- HHS Action Plan
- Huntington High School Counseling Plan 2026-27
- HHS Curriculum Guide 2026-27 (English/Spanish)
- Revised Field Trip Parent-Guardian Consent Form (During School Hours: English and Spanish)
- Huntington High School Community Service Record Form
- Huntington High School Valedictorians and Salutatorians Through the Years
- Huntington High School Mission Statement
- New High School Equivalency Exam Information
For Teachers
- HHS Et Cetera Literary Magazine 2024
- HHS The Dispatch Newspaper - Issue 2, Volume 49 - December 2019
- HHS The Dispatch Newspaper - Issue 1, Volume 49 - October 2019
- HHS Et Cetera Literary Magazine 2019
- HHS The Dispatch Newspaper - Issue VI, Volume 48 - June 2019
- HHS The Dispatch Newspaper - Issue V, Volume 48 - June 2019
- HHS The Dispatch Newspaper - Issue IV, Volume 48 - May 2019
- HHS The Dispatch Newspaper - Issue III, Volume 48 - February 2019
- HHS The Dispatch Newspaper - Issue II, Volume 48 - December 2018
- HHS The Dispatch - Issue I, Volume 48 - November 2018
- HHS Et Cetera Literary Magazine 2018
- HHS The Dispatch - Issue IV, Volume 47 - June 2018
- HHS The Dispatch - Issue III, Volume 47 - May 2018
- HHS The Dispatch - Issue II, Volume 47 - December 2017
- HHS The Dispatch - Issue 1, Vol. 47 - November 2017
- HHS The Dispatch - Issue 5, Vol. 46 - June 2017
- HHS Et Cetera Literary Magazine 2017
- HHS The Dispatch - Issue 4, Vol. 46 - May 2017
- HHS The Dispatch Issue 3, Volume 46 - March 2017
- HHS The Dispatch - Issue II, Volume 46 - January 2017
- HHS The Dispatch - Issue I, Volume 46 - November 2016
- Huntington High School Et Cetera Literary Magazine 2016
- HHS The Dispatch Graduation Issue 2016 Issue V Volume 45
- The Dispatch Issue IV Volume 45
- The Dispatch - Issue III Volume 45
- The Dispatch - Issue II Volume 45
- Dispatch - Issue 1, Volume 45 October 2015
- HHS Et Cetera Literary Magazine 2015
- Dispatch Graduation 2015 Issue
- Dispatch June 2015 Issue
- Dispatch April 2015 Issue
- Dispatch December 2014 Issue
- Dispatch October 2014 Issue
- HHS Et Cetera Literary Magazine 2014
- Dispatch June 2014 Issue
- Dispatch May 2014 Issue
- Dispatch February 2014 Issue
- Dispatch December 2013 Issue
- Dispatch November 2013 Issue
- HHS Et Cetera Literary Magazine 2013
- Dispatch June 2013 Issue
- Dispatch May 2013 Issue
- Dispatch February 2013 Issue
- Dispatch November 2012 Issue
- HHS Et Cetera Literary Magazine 2012
- Dispatch June 2012 Issue
- Dispatch May 2012 Issue
- Dispatch February 2012 Issue
- Dispatch November 2011 Issue
- Dispatch June 2011 Issue
- Dispatch February 2011 Issue
- Dispatch December 2010 Issue
- Dispatch December 2010 Issue
- Dispatch June 2010 Issue
- Dispatch March 2010 Issue
- Dispatch January 2010 Issue
- Dispatch December 2009 Issue
- Dispatch October 2009 Issue
- Dispatch November 2008 Issue
- Dispatch April 2008 Issue
- Dispatch December 2007 Issue
- Dispatch June 2007 Issue
- Dispatch December 2006 Issue
- Dispatch February 1978 Issue
- Dispatch November 1977 Issue
About Huntington High School
Huntington Pride
The staff members at Huntington High School pride themselves in providing a challenging academic environment as well as opportunities for leadership, citizenship and service. The instructional programs address all levels of performance. The school offers a large selection of Advanced Placement courses in all disciplines.
Rich Curriculum
The foreign language program in French, Italian, Latin and Spanish offers advanced, honors and AP level courses with an option to acquire college credits. The academic support services provided at the high school are specific and focused. Numerous extra help programs are offered by teachers both before and after school. Walk in tutoring is available in all major subjects during all lunch periods.
Special Education programs range from teacher consultant models to life skills. The high school offers both ENL and bilingual classes (math and science) to ELL students. In addition, there is an after school alternative program provided to support those students who need to make-up credits.
Extras and Special Interests
Arts, music and physical education programs are among the best and most competitive in the country. Students choose from an extensive and creative list of electives and are afforded the opportunity to join over 40 student activities. Career exploration is provided through a well-delineated internship program that allows all 11th and 12th grade students to pursue special interests. Active student groups focus on community services that teach compassion, empathy, and social responsibility.
Creativity
The honor societies combine academic excellence with the responsibility to share talents and skills with other students throughout the district who need support in specific content areas. Drama productions provide a showcase for the magnificent talent of gifted students, exceptional staff and a stage crew that is organized, creative and efficient. The school newspaper, The Dispatch, shares provocative and insightful ideas.
Onwards and Upwards
The guidance department and the college counseling center provide students and their families with information intended to aid them in making the best possible course choices. Each year Huntington seniors are accepted by the most competitive colleges and universities in the country including Yale, Cornell, Harvard, the U.S. Naval Academy, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Fordham, Columbia, Lehigh, Tufts, Vanderbilt and many others. Huntington prides itself in assisting students to gain acceptance to the college that can best meet their needs and interests.
Tradition of Excellence
Through the monthly Pride Award program, teachers nominate and recognize a large number of students who are working diligently to improve their academic performance. It is through the efforts of dedicated teachers, staff members and devoted parents that the school is able to provide a challenging and supportive environment for all students.
Huntington High School’s tradition of excellence and social responsibility will continue to provide the foundation from which the community’s youth will draw strength and inspiration.
Huntington High School Leadership
Rochelle C. Brown
Principal
Rochelle C. Brown has been Huntington High School’s principal since August 2024. She came to the district after serving as Uniondale High School’s assistant principal for the past three years. Prior to that she was an assistant principal at Roosevelt High School for nearly three years. She began her career as a science teacher in Queens.
Ms. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish having earned both at City College of New York. She obtained a Master of Science in Education degree at Pace University and studied for her administrative certification at The College of St. Rose.
Ms. Brown has also served as an attendance teacher, dean of safety and student culture and lead science teacher. She taught science on 6-8 grade level, including Living Environment and Earth Science Regents along with honors science.
Fluent in written and spoken Spanish, Ms. Brown began her administrative career at Northside Charter High School in Brooklyn where she supervised the science and guidance departments along with the deans and security personnel.
At Roosevelt, Ms. Brown created the high school’s master schedule for more than 1,000 students, supervised social studies, ENL, world language, music, chemistry, geometry and family and consumer science teachers as well as the Advanced Placement program. She managed the building’s website and Twitter page.
At Uniondale, Ms. Brown oversaw the science, guidance, speech and multi-media specialist departments, was the testing coordinator for Regents, state field tests and the PSAT and chaired the scholarship committee.
Ms. Brown maintains memberships in the National Association of Secondary School Principals and the School Administrators Association of New York.
Gamal Smith
Assistant Principal
Gamal Smith has been an assistant principal at Huntington High School since July 2015. Mr. Smith obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and pre-med studies at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, where he also played on the varsity basketball team for four years. He earned a Master of Science degree at Mercy College in the Bronx and studied for his state administrative certification at Touro College in Manhattan.
Prior to joining Huntington’s administrative ranks, Mr. Smith worked as a teacher and lab instructor at Richmond Hill High School and John Adams High School, where he also served as dean of students. He was assistant principal at John W. Dodd Middle School in Freeport, dean of students/discipline at Brooklyn Lab School, assistant principal and science department chairman at Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health & Science Charter School in the Bronx, assistant principal at PS 212 in the Bronx and dean of students and a science teacher at PS 254 in the Bronx. He was also principal of Nassau BOCES PATH (Positive Alternative Twilight High School) for a year.
Mr. Smith has worked for several years as the assistant principal and principal of the Western Suffolk BOCES summer school program.
Over the years Mr. Smith has helped spearhead many initiatives at schools where he has worked, including Saturday, after school, extended day and early college awareness programs and science fairs and expos.
Amy S. Cobelo
Assistant Principal
Dr. Amy S. Cobelo has been assistant principal at Huntington School since February 24, 2026. She came to Huntington from the Marion County Public Schools in Florida where she had been working as a coordinator of multilingual education and family engagement and assistant principal of curriculum. She developed school-wide initiatives that increased the graduation rate by 16 percentage points by implementing targeted intervention programs.
Dr. Cobelo obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in business management from the University of Phoenix; a Master of Science in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and a Doctor of Education from National Louis University in Chicago. Her research focus was on program evaluation of reading programs and professional learning in reading strategies.
Dr. Cobelo previously worked as a for four years as a second literacy coach and reading/English teacher in the Hillsborough Public Schools. She spent one year teaching special education in the Long Beach Unified School District and taught special education-reading and language arts in the Hillsborough Public Schools from October 2004 to August 2011.
High School Videos
Art and Fashion Show 2026
Huntington district students K-12 are celebrated as they display their creativity and artwork in the two day annual District Art and Fashion Show
Unified Sports 2026
Why Huntington? - Unified! Huntington Schools provide meaningful learning and engagement opportunities for all students, in and out of the classroom. Huntington Pride is on full display!!
Bandfest 2026
Huntington UFSD’s 12th annual Band Fest was better than ever as hundreds of students spread across grades 4-12 participated in the district wide initiative.
Huntington Homecoming 2025
Annual district homecoming events
K-Factor 2025 Benefit Talent Show
Annual talent show fundraiser
HHS Blue Devil Broadcast
Season 2 Episode 14
HHS Homecoming Pep Rally
A slideshow video commemorating this year's Homecoming Pep Rally celebration. Credits: Darin Reed
High School Galleries and Slideshows
Galleries from the 2025-26 school year
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