Huntington High School

Huntington High School (HHS) is a public high school in Huntington, New York, United States. It is part of the Huntington Union Free School District. Controversy In 2018, Huntington High School was at the center of a controversy surrounding the deportation of a Honduran student seeking asylum. Documented in the New York Times, Alex was wrongly accused by Huntington High School of being part of a gang. "Despite all these warning signs, when the ICE agents came to Alex's house on June 14, 2017, he was shocked into silence. It was only when they were far from Huntington, passing through unfamiliar, rundown Long Island towns, that he was able to get out the words to ask why he was being arrested. Alex says the agent first asked him to guess, and then told him, "We received a report a while ago from the school that you were a gang member, and that's why." Despite only comprising 9% of the students of the school, black students represent 33% of the school's out-of-school suspensions and 21% of expulsions. Furthermore, black students are 7.2 times more likely to see disciplinary action than white students are. Notable alumni Anthony Brown (1979), lawyer, politician and congressman James D. Conte, politician Brian Goldner (1981), CEO of Hasbro Leroy Grumman (1911), aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and industrialist Joseph Hazelwood (1964), sailor Amy Ignatow (1995), author, illustrator, and cartoonist Ilana Kurshan, author Greg Packer (1983), perpetual man-on-the-street interviewee Sarah Reinertsen, paratriathlete and former Paralympic track athlete Kurt Sohn (1975), NFL player Dawn Dunlop, United States Air Force Major General