East Hampton Union Free School District

East Hampton's first school dates back to the 17th century, where the school was one of four public buildings in a village of 50-60 homes.{{cite web |url=https://www.easthamptonvillage.org/DocumentCenter/View/131/History-of-the-Village-of-East-Hampton-PDF?bidId= |title=The History of East Hampton |last=Hefner |first=Bob |publisher= |accessdate=January 19, 2022}} The state-chartered Clinton Academy operated a one-room schoolhouse from about 1785 to 1881.{{cite web |url=http://easthampton.com/history/clinton-academy |title=Clinton Academy |publisher=EastHampton.com |accessdate=January 19, 2022}}

The modern school district traces back to 1894, when the first school opened on Newtown Lane.{{cite web |url=https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15281coll2/id/15902/rec/24 |title=East Hampton Union School, East Hampton, N.Y., 1894 |date=1894 |publisher=The Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library |accessdate=January 22, 2022}} By 1924, primary and secondary grades were in two neighboring buildings. Elementary students left the campus in 1961 and high school students left the campus in 1970, turning the remaining building into the East Hampton Middle School.Rae, John Warden, East Hampton, p.55 (2000)({{ISBN|978-0738504018}})

The total enrollment for the 2012-2013 school year was 897 students.[http://www.nystart.gov/publicweb-rc/2008/8c/AOR-2008-580301020000.pdf The New York State District Report Card, Accountability and Overview Report, 2007-08] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604144241/https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb-rc/2008/8c/AOR-2008-580301020000.pdf |date=2010-06-04 }} In the 2016-2017 school year, the East Hampton School District reported to the New York State Education Department it had 1,848 students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade.{{cite web |url=http://www.p12.nysed.gov/irs/statistics/enroll-n-staff/home.html |title=NYSED:IRS:Public School Enrollment |publisher=New York State Education Department |accessdate=2018-07-25}}

The district also educates secondary students from the Amagansett, Montauk, Sagaponack, Springs, and Wainscott school districts, none of which have their own high school.{{cite news | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/nyregion/long-island/04schoolli.html | title= Making Sense of School Consolidation | newspaper=The New York Times | date= Jan 2, 2009 | first=Joseph | last=Berger | accessdate=May 1, 2010}}{{cite news | url= https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/26/nyregion/about-long-island-school-district-with-a-personal-touch.html | title= School District With a Personal Touch | newspaper=The New York Times | date= May 26, 1991 | first=Diane | last=Ketcham | accessdate=May 1, 2010}}{{cite news | url= http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=239370&town=East%20Hampton&n=Springs%20and%20East%20Hampton%20school%20districts%20at%20odds%20again%20over%20tuition | title= Springs and East Hampton school districts at odds again over tuition | publisher= The East Hampton Press | date= Oct 13, 2009 | last= Geismar | first= Erin | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110807174255/http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/East-Hampton/239370/Springs-and-East-Hampton-school-districts-at-odds-again-over-tuition | archive-date= August 7, 2011 |quote=Springs currently sends about 260 students to the East Hampton High School}}{{cite news | url= http://www.easthamptonstar.com/dnn/Home/News/SchoolChoiceHeatsUp/tabid/8701/Default.aspx | title= School Choice Heats Up | work= The East Hampton Star | date= Apr 30, 2009 }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}("East Hampton School District, which has taken on the sole responsibility of educating public high school students on a tuition basis from Sagaponack, Wainscott, Amagansett, Montauk, and Springs for decades.") Proposals have been made to merge the nearby districts, but have not been adopted.

The high school football team also includes students from Pierson High School in Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton School in Bridgehampton.{{cite news |url=https://www.easthamptonstar.com/sports/2020123/east-hamptons-football-team-to-stay-put-fall |title=East Hampton’s Football Team Is to Stay Put This Fall |last=Graves |first=Jack |date=January 23, 2020 |work=The East Hampton Star |accessdate=January 18, 2022}}

• East Hampton High School, located at 2 Long Lane, serves grades 9 through 12 and is the easternmost high school in the state of New York. In the 2019–20 school year, there were 920 students. The current principal is Sara Smith. The current high school campus opened in 1970,{{cite news | url= http://www.easthamptonstar.com/dnn/Obituaries/tabid/5097/Default.aspx | title= Samuel Meddaugh; Was High School Principal | publisher= The East Hampton Star | date= March 2008 | url-status= dead | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080329120815/http://www.easthamptonstar.com/dnn/Obituaries/tabid/5097/Default.aspx | archivedate= 2008-03-29 }}("Samuel Alanson Meddaugh, a former principal at East Hampton High School for whom its auditorium is named ... was the first principal to serve in the new high school building, which opened in 1970") and a $49 million expansion was completed in 2010.{{cite news | url= http://www.27east.com/story_detail.cfm?id=227242 | title= East Hamptons schools construction on schedule | publisher=The East Hampton Press | date= Aug 18, 2009}}("Work on the high school, which began in May, is the last phase of the $80 million districtwide expansion and renovation project, which was approved by district voters in a bond referendum in May 2006. The project was scheduled to be finished by the end of 2010"){{cite web |url=https://www.bhc-architects.com/east-hampton-school-public-works-1 |title=East Hampton High School |publisher=BHC Architects |accessdate=January 22, 2022}}
• East Hampton Middle School, located at 76 Newtown Lane, serves grades 6 through 8. In the 2019–20 school year, there were 342 students. The current principal is Charles Soriano. The building was built in 1910 and enlarged in 1963.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-living-amagansett-li-down-earth-hamptons-alternative.html |title=If You're Thinking of Living In/Amagansett, L.I.;A Down-to-Earth Hamptons Alternative |last=Rather |first=John |work=The New York Times |date=June 30, 1996 |accessdate=January 22, 2022}}
• John M. Marshall Elementary School, located at 3 Gingerbread Lane, serves pre-K through grade 5. In the 2019–20 school year, there were 450 students. The current principal is Karen Kuneth. The building opened in 1961.{{cite web |title=The Bonacker, Handbook of East Hampton High School, 1960-1961 |publisher=The Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library |url=https://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15281coll2/id/47044/rec/3 |date=Spring 1960 |accessdate=January 22, 2022}}

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