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Hempstead High School is a public high school located in Hempstead, New York. The building is a...

Hempstead High School is a public high school located in Hempstead, New York. The building is a three level structure with an open courtyard in the center of the school. The school is built on a marshy area and local legend holds that the school sinks a few inches every year. The school consists of three buildings: The "A" building, in which most of the classes are held. The "B" building, which serves as home to the media center, administrative offices and a few classrooms. The "C" building consist of the gymnasium, the nurses office, the auditorium, the student and faculty lunch rooms and science classrooms on the lower level. Renovations currently under way will relocate lockers to the school hallways as they presently sit in the "commons" of the A building on the first floor. Hempstead High School also has an indoor swimming pool, that reopened in the spring of 2005 for student usage after renovations. Hempstead once an academic power in the 1980s has shown signs of decline recently. They began to shown major signs of improvements with high graduating classes of 2005 and again in 2006. In terms of test scores, in 2004 Hempstead had 57% of its students pass the Math A Regents