24-516: Half Hollow Hills Central School District (#5) is located in Dix Hills, New York , on Long Island , and primarily serves the hamlets of Dix Hills and part of Melville , while also serving small areas of East Farmingdale , Deer Park , West Hills , East Northport , and Wheatley Heights in Suffolk County . The district include five elementary, two middle, and two high schools. As of
48-822: A part of the Commack School District and are located within Dix Hills. Five Towns College is also located within Dix Hills. Dix Hills is part of the Half Hollow Hills Community Library. Dix Hills is served by the Dix Hills Fire Department, through three stations. The Dix Hills Fire Department's headquarters (Company 2) is located on Deer Park Avenue, immediately north of the Northern State Parkway . Substation #1 (Company 3)
72-443: Is a show dance figure consisting of a series of dancers who throw their legs synchronised up to eye level in the air, forming a straight line. The challenge in performing a kickline is not only the process of lifting the leg in a coordinated manner in order to create a uniform impression, but also lowering it again quickly enough to switch between the standing and throwing leg in quick succession. Well-known kicklines are formed by
96-595: Is generally used to host class trips from the middle and elementary schools. High School East is home to the Eugene Orloff Auditorium, a two-level theater boasting a seating capacity of 2200, making it the second largest not-for-profit auditorium on Long Island . The stage is a full Broadway -sized stage (88 feet wide, 49 feet deep, three stories tall for fly space (hanging scenery). The stage has an orchestra pit containing two pistons (although only one functions) that are capable of raising and lowering
120-453: Is land and 43.0 square miles (111.3 km ), or 31.35%, is water. Dix Hills is located centrally on Long Island , on the southern edge of Huntington, bordering the Town of Babylon . The Long Island Expressway passes almost straight through the middle of the hamlet. As of the 2020 U.S. Census , there were 26,180 people, 7,765 households residing in Dix Hills. The population density
144-612: Is located across the street from the Melville branch of Half Hollow Hills Community Library. Chestnut Hill and Forest Park closed in 2014 (eliminating one school from each high school's tracks). The Fran Greenspan Administration Center (formerly known as the Manasquan building) houses the central offices of the Half Hollow Hills School District. It is located at 525 Half Hollow Road, directly adjacent to
168-454: Is located at 50 Vanderbilt Parkway in Dix Hills, New York , Hills East is fed from West Hollow Middle School and is the larger of the district's two high schools. The class of 1978 was the last class where East was the exclusive high school in the district; commencing in 1979 there were graduating classes from both high schools. High School East features a domed planetarium that houses a Evans & Sutherland digital projection system that
192-570: Is located on Deer Park Avenue, south of the Long Island Expressway . Substation #2 (Company 1) is located on Carll's Straight Path, about half of a mile south of the Long Island Expressway . The Dix Hills Fire Department consists of approximately 150 volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians who respond to over 2,500 calls for assistance each year – ranging from fires to motor vehicle accidents to medical and traumatic emergencies. Kickline A kickline
216-452: Is the Colt. The school's colors are red and gold. West Hollow Middle School, which opened in 1970, is located at 250 Old East Neck Road in Melville, is the largest middle school in the district. Candlewood is located at 1200 Carll's Straight Path in Dix Hills. In the district's history, there were as many as 11 operating elementary schools. The first to close was Sweet Hollow in the 1970s. In
240-543: The Half Hollow Hills Central School District and the Commack School District . The Half Hollow Hills elementary schools are Otsego, Paumanok, Signal Hill, Sunquam, and Vanderbilt. Middle schools that serve the district are Candlewood Middle School and West Hollow Middle School. The high schools are Half Hollow Hills High School East and Half Hollow Hills High School West. Commack Middle School and Rolling Hills Elementary are both
264-513: The Town of Huntington , on Long Island , New York , United States. The population was 26,180 at the time of the 2020 census. Settlers traded goods with the Indigenous Secatogue tribe for the land that became Dix Hills in 1699. The Secatogues lived in the northern portion of the region during the later half of that century. The land was known as Dick's Hills. By lore, the name traces to a local native named Dick Pechegan, likely of
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#1732775370911288-399: The 2022–23 school year, the district, consisting of nine schools, had an enrollment of 7,317 students and 647.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.3:1. The district has two high schools (East and West), two middle schools (Candlewood and West Hollow), and five elementary schools (Otsego, Paumanok, Signal Hill, Sunquam and Vanderbilt). High School East
312-656: The Football team also won its first Long Island Championship in school history. The Boys Basketball team has made the class AA playoffs every year since 2006. Former Head Coach Bill Mitaritonna was named Newsday 's HS Basketball Coach of the Year (2010). The Varsity Soccer team made the state semi-finals in 2007 and won the Long Island Championship in 2017. The Hills Swim team has gone undefeated and won league and county champs. The Varsity Football Team has made
336-573: The Secatogues. Scholar William Wallace Tooker wrote that the addition of the English name "Dick" to the indigenous name "Pechegan" was a common practice. Tooker wrote that Pechegan's wigwam and his planted fields became the hilly area's namesake, known as the shortened "Dix Hills" by 1911. The area was mostly used for farming until after World War II . In the 1950s, Dix Hills and its neighbors Wheatley Heights and Melville , along with
360-579: The area known as Sweet Hollow, proposed to incorporate as a single village. This village would have been known as the Incorporated Village of Half Hollow Hills, would have had an area of roughly 50 square miles (130 km ), and would have embraced the Half Hollow Hills Central School District (CSD 5) . The plans were unsuccessful, and these areas would remain unincorporated. Proposals were revived around 2001, when Dix Hills, Melville, Wheatley Heights , and East Farmingdale (all within
384-742: The early 1980s, Taukomas, The Hills School, and Manasquan closed due to declining enrollment. Manasquan became the district's central office building (later renamed as Fran Greenspan Administration Center) and fed to Burr's Lane Junior High School (also closed, eventually becoming part of the Five Towns College campus in the early 1990s). Vanderbilt, Otsego, and Forest Park used to all feed to Candlewood, which feeds to High School West. Signal Hill, Chestnut Hill, Paumonok, and Sunquam used to all feed to West Hollow, which feeds to High School East. Sunquam re-opened in 1999 after being closed since 1991. It underwent extensive renovations and an expansion, and
408-644: The pit. High School West, also known as Hills West, is located at 375 Wolf Hill Road in Dix Hills, New York . The school was built in 1975 and in its first year was 10th grade only, for class of '78. After its first year of classes, the district was split and the two high schools became typical 10, 11, 12 grade each. The school grounds of High School West are adjacent to those of Signal Hill Elementary School; however, students from Signal Hill Elementary School attend High School East rather than High School West. West students generally attend Candlewood Middle School from 6th to 8th grade. As of 2019, Michael Catapano serves as
432-612: The playoffs the past 5 of 8 years and were the 2009 Long Island Champions and the 2018 Long Island Champions. In 2014, The Hills West Varsity Softball team won its first ever Suffolk County Championship with a 22–4 record. Hills West Dance team, the Wranglerettes, are the 2007 champions in the Long Island Kickline Association competition, winning in the jazz category for the 14th year, and in the newly created hip hop category. The official school mascot
456-408: The population spoke a language other than English at home, mostly Chinese or Korean . The median household income (in 2021 dollars) in Dix Hills was $ 184,580. The per capita income for Dix Hills was $ 75,486. About 4.9% of the population was below the poverty line . Dix Hills had Long Island's highest number of electric vehicles on the road by ZIP Code as of 2023. Dix Hills is served by
480-628: The principal of Hills West. Hills West has been successful in a variety of sports including Cross Country, Track, Football, Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Swim, Dance, and Volleyball. In 2008, the Cross Country team won the Suffolk County A Championship. In 2009, they once again won the Suffolk County A Championship, however a disqualification of one of the runners led them to take second place. The winter track team won 7 straight county titles (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and in
504-573: The school district) proposed incorporating as a single village. These plans also failed and each remains unincorporated hamlets to this day. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP of Dix Hills has a total area of 15.9 square miles (41.3 km ), all of it land. The town of Huntington, of which Dix Hills is a part, has a total area of 137.1 square miles (355.1 km ), of which 94.1 square miles (243.8 km )
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#1732775370911528-646: The southern end of the High School East campus. In addition to housing the offices of the Superintendent and other administrators, Central Office serves as the location for a small mock- astronautics program for children and certain community events, as well as child care services. Reach CYA is also housed in the Central Office Location. Dix Hills, New York Dix Hills is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP), in
552-645: The spring of 2007, 2008 and 2009 the spring track team has won the league by going undefeated. In addition, the Colts have fielded strong baseball teams over the years, winning multiple league titles, two county championships, and a state championship in 2003 under the coaching Thomas Migliozzi who recently accomplished his 500th win as the head coach. The Varsity Boys Basketball team has won 4 Suffolk County AA championships (2008, 2010, 2011, and 2016) And won back to back Long Island Championships (2010 and 2011). The first time that has been accomplished in school history. In 2009,
576-474: Was 1,662.3 per square mile. The racial makeup of Dix Hills was 74.7% White , 15.1% Asian , 6.1% are Hispanic or Latino of any race, 3.7% African American , 0.8% Native American , 0.0% Pacific Islander , and 4.8% from two or more races. Dix Hills, like many other towns on the North Shore of Long Island , has a large Jewish population, as well as a large number of residents of Asian origin. 25.6% of
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