Three Village Central School District
school district located in Long Island, New York, United States
Three Village Central School District is a school district located in the towns of Brookhaven and Smithtown in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island. As of 2020, it serves all of Setauket, Old Field, and Poquott, the vast majority of East Setauket and Stony Brook, parts of Head of the Harbor, Centereach, Port Jefferson Station, Lake Grove, and Port Jefferson, and encompasses the Stony Brook University campus.
The school district is renowned for its InSTAR program, a three-year science research program which produces record numbers of Regeneron Science Talent Search (formerly Intel STS) semifinalists. In 2008, the district's program produced 13 semifinalists, the most semifinalists from a single school in the entire nation. The district's Intellectually Gifted (I.G.) program is housed at its Nassakeag Elementary School. Unfortunately, the IG program was discontinued due to budget cuts. The Three Village CSD has been represented at nationals for Science Olympiad and by various varsity sports teams.
History
Its name came from the older, original "Three Villages" of Setauket, Stony Brook and Old Field. The district formed in order to improve education in the "Three Village" area, which also includes Poquott. It was formed with the merger of the Stony Brook and Setauket school districts in the 1960s.
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