Kymora Dorvilus came to Huntington UFSD as a seventh grader, but when she graduates next June, the rising senior will be a Blue Devil for life.

Huntington High School students continue to reach new heights academically, increasingly challenging themselves by taking Advanced Placement courses and improving their scores on these tough exams.

Huntington High School offers more than 30 Advanced Placement courses and the students taking them are excelling. Dozens of Class of 2025 seniors earned special awards for their performance on multiple AP exams.

The Huntington High School GSA club participated in this year’s Long Island Pride Parade and festival in Heckscher Park. A crowd of thousands turned out for the event, which first kicked off in 1991.

The 30th annual Huntington High School GrandFriends senior-senior prom was a festive afternoon for both the 100 senior citizens participating in this year’s event and the dozens of teenagers who turned out to interact with the residents of Sunrise Assisted Living on West Hills Road and the Town of Huntington’s Senior Center.

Huntington High School Habitat for Humanity club members came to last week’s public meeting of the Huntington School Board in the Jack Abrams STEM Magnet School auditorium to announce the club would be donating $78,000 to Habitat for Humanity of Long Island to build a much needed home in Wyandanch.

Huntington High School students recently went to the polls to elect student government officers following a spirited campaign, complete with posters and flyers. New officers are now in place for the 2025/26 sophomore, junior and senior classes and the General Organization, as the school-wide student government is officially known.

Students from Huntington High School shined in this year’s state SkillsUSA and FFA competitions. Valerie Ferreira won first place in architectural and interior design/CAD (computer aided design) in the SkillsUSA contest and Grey Hodgkinson captured second place in the individual veterinary science competition and first place in the team FFA contest.

Huntington High School’s incredibly talented performing artists put on an unbelievable show at this year’s K-Factor last Friday night. As the crowd steadily strolled into the big auditorium the excitement grew and the atmosphere remained electric throughout the hours long event.

The place to be on Friday, May 2 is the Huntington High School auditorium as dozens of acts take the stage for the Key Club’s 14th annual K-Factor talent show at 7 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door for $10.

The Key Club’s K-Factor Talent Show is set to rock the Huntington High School auditorium again this spring on Friday, May 2 at 7 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door for $10.

Huntington UFSD celebrated its three assistant principals during National Assistant Principals Week. The district recognized the good work and efforts of Kenneth Parham, Gamal Smith and Patricia Avelli.

An announcement concerning the date of Huntington UFSD’s Homecoming Day festivities is coming soon. Officials have been waiting for Section XI to issue varsity football schedules listing 2025’s four home games. Those schedules will be released next week.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Huntington High School’s Women’s Empowerment Club invited women leaders found at various levels of district and building administration to share their stories with students.

Huntington High School student government leaders will be out in force on Saturday, March 15 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. collecting food for hungry community members at Shop Rite in the Huntington Commons shopping Center on New York Avenue.

While local and daily newspapers continue to fold all over the country, the latest edition of Huntington High School’s student newspaper, The Dispatch is essential reading around the building. Billed as “The Beacon of Truth Since 1974,” it’s a worthy successor to its predecessors of other names.

What was billed as a “cultural celebration” drew a fun-loving crowd of students, parents, teachers, family and staff members to the Huntington High School gym this week. The nighttime gathering was called an “incredible success” and a quick review of the photos snapped that evening confirm that conclusion.

Huntington sophomore Owen Stevens loves to challenge himself. So he sought out the highly regarded Long Island Brain Bee competition sponsored by The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Department of Biology at the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The recent celebration in the Huntington High School cafeteria honoring students with perfect attendance during the second marking period and with the most improved attendance was a festive affair by any standard.

Ask Brittany Lopez Berrios a question and you can expect to get an honest answer. The Huntington High School junior is an enthusiastic young woman full of hopes and dreams.

Julian Canales won the Huntington High School spelling bee championship on Thursday afternoon in the auditorium, besting runner-up Christina Ray and third place finisher Ludo Cattano. The event was organized by the Post Ellipsis chapter of the National English Honor Society.

The Blue Market & Blutique at Huntington High School continues to thrive. The initiative is a community-driven effort to provide essential resources to students, helping ensure they have the support they need to succeed in school.

Huntington High School juniors Emely Herrera Rivas and Heileen Torres and senior Gabriela Amaya are exceptional young woman. The trio recently completed their third full day of preparatory sessions and training for this year’s Angelo Del Toro Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership Institute in Albany.

Diverse student interests are enhancing life around Huntington High School as classmates encourage and motivate one another to strive to achieve their goals while reaching for their dreams.

Huntington High School is always striving to get students to reflect on their future and to plan accordingly. Consistent with this, school counselor Ivy Alvayero hosted a career spotlight on engineering in the School Heritage Museum.

A committee of student leaders is helping to guide the work of Huntington High School’s Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports team.

Huntington High School students have a variety of personal and career interests that run the gamut of possibilities. A sampling of recent Science Honor Society inductees proves the point.

Huntington High School’s Afro-Caribbean Heritage Club is focused on both culture and history as the organization looks forward to the future.

Claire Parks has embraced working hard, community service, personal growth and enjoyable activities as she goes about her junior year at Huntington High School. The teenager recently completed a more than two month long internship program at worldwide defense giant BAE Systems’ facility in Greenlawn.

Huntington High School Grandfriends club members visited Sunrise Assisted Living in South Huntington for some old-fashioned caroling and to spread holiday cheer.

Huntington High School students caught the spirit of the season late last week when more than 300 teenagers spent hours after school decorating first and second floor hallways to help create a festive holiday atmosphere.

Huntington High School junior Claire Parks graduated earlier this week from BAE Systems’ Women in Technology program, gaining valuable hands-on experience at the global defense and aerospace company, which employs a workforce of more than 100,000 in over 40 countries.

Nina Fascilla has a knack for making the Huntington High School community proud. The senior has been selected as a delegate to the United States Youth Senate through a rigorous application and interview process. She will represent New York as one of just two students chosen in the state.

The Nathan Hale chapter of the National Honor Society at Huntington High School inducted more than five dozen new members this week in the auditorium. The ceremony marked the 71st annual induction in the organization’s history.

The Women’s Empowerment Club at Huntington High School is constantly evolving. Faculty advisor Sara Guagliano is in her fourth year of guiding the organization and she has centered its mission around four “pillars of empowerment.”

The Huntington High School Grandfriends and Key Club collaborated on a Thanksgiving food drive to benefit the hungry among the community’s senior citizens.

Huntington High School’s Esports Gaming Club is up and running and in the preliminary stages of recruiting members. Esports is the popular name given to electronic sports, which involve competitive video game competitions. Organized high school and college teams are becoming increasingly common across the country.

The Huntington High School Grandfriends club is all about making memories. The teenagers who comprise the organization’s members succeeded on every level in making their Halloween visit to the Sunrise of Huntington assisted living facility in South Huntington a time to remember for everyone.

Huntington High School celebrated students with perfect attendance at an early morning breakfast in the cafeteria late last week. Honorees were called up to the front one by one by Principal Rochelle C. Brown and Assistant Principal Trish Avelli presented each of them with a certificate and pin.

The first issue of the 60th year of Huntington High School’s student newspaper is now in print. The Dispatch’s fall issue is available for free.

Huntington High School’s Environmental Club is working hard to make the school, community and world a cleaner and greener place.

Huntington High School’s A World of Difference club members and faculty advisors traveled to Woodhull Intermediate School to present training workshops for fifth graders in the building.

Kiera McGuire is one of Huntington’s best. The junior was recently inducted into high school’s National Science Honor Society chapter, but that barely scratches the surface of her interests and accomplishments.

The New York State Seal of Civic Readiness is a special designation placed on the high school diplomas and transcripts for graduating seniors who qualify for the recognition. Huntington High School seniors are invited to work toward earning this special distinction.