John F. Kennedy High School (Bellmore, New York)

Coordinates: 40°39′04″N 73°31′30″W / 40.65111°N 73.52500°W

John F. Kennedy High School
Location
Bellmore, NY USA
Information
Type	Public school
Established	1966
Principal	Lorraine Poppe (head) Assistant Principals - Gerard Owenburg, Vincent Pisano, and Jon LaRochester
Faculty	85
Number of students	1,320
Campus	suburban
Color(s)	Dartmouth green and gray/silver
Nobel laureates	Paul Krugman (2008)
Mascot	Cougar
Website	www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/schools/john_kennedy_high_school

John F. Kennedy High School is a high school located in Bellmore, New York. It is one of three high schools in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District.

The school is open during normal school months. Its newspaper is the Cougar Crier.^[1] In local athletics, this school is referred to as Bellmore JFK to avoid confusion with the nearby Plainview JFK.

Demographics

Ethnic Group	Percentage
White	94.67%
Asian	1.97%
Hispanic	2.50%
African American	0.83%
Native American	0.00%

District

There are four other schools in the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District: Wellington C. Mepham High School, Sanford H. Calhoun High School, Merrick Avenue Middle School, and Grand Avenue Middle School. About 6,050 students are enrolled at the school district, with approximately 1,200 students in each school.

Bellmore JFK is known for its men and women's volleyball teams.

Notable alumni

The Official Alumni Association of the High School is Called: Bellmore JFK ALumni, Inc. The link to the website is here. Link to Alumni that have been inducted to the JFK Hall of Fame is here.

Scott Lipsky

Noah Rubin

• Spencer Eig, attorney for Elian Gonzales^[2]
• Doug Ellin, creator of Entourage
• Amy Fisher, convicted of the 1992 shooting of wife of her lover
• Bill Freiberger, Emmy-nominated writer and producer of The Simpsons, The PJs, and Drawn Together
• Michael Kors, fashion designer
• Stephen Chiovaro, Professional Poker Player, Business man
• Paul Krugman, economist, Princeton University Professor, and columnist for The New York Times, Nobel Prize in economics.
• Steve Levy (born 1965), host of ESPN SportsCenter
• Scott Lipsky (born 1981), tennis player
• Daryl Palumbo, vocalist of Glassjaw and vocalist for Head Automatica
• Noah Rubin (born 1996), tennis player
• Adam Schefter, ESPN football analyst
• Jason Smilovic, writer and producer

References

Notes

1. Cougar Crier On-Line
2. Will the Saga of Elian Gonzalez End in Violence? CNN Transcripts: Larry King Live. Aired April 13, 2000.

External links

• John F. Kennedy High School
• Bellmore-Merrick Central School District

Bellmore JFK Alumni, Inc. http://www.bellmorejfkalumni.org/