The Rocky Point School District, including the town of Rocky Point and parts of the hamlets of Sound Beach and Miller Place, comprises a largely residential community in the County of Suffolk on the North Shore of Long Island, 55 miles east of the New York City Line.
Originally a summer community for city vacationers, the area has now become a year-round residence for increasing numbers of young families, creating a mini-population boom in elementary schools. Overall population has significantly increased in the last decade, rising more than 15%; student population now numbers slightly over 3,000.
The district is bordered on the south by a 5,500-acre conservation preserve of what was once the largest long-wave radio transmitting station in the world. Some nine square miles in area, Rocky Point School District shares a common border to the east with the Shoreham-Wading River S.D., to the south with Longwood Schools, and to the west with the Miller Place S.D. Long Island Sound is to the north.
