Northport is known as a snobby/preppy town, with nautical themed stores, restaurants, & cafes as it could be described as an upscale sea town. Most families are younger with younger children, going back & fourth in their Range Rovers taking the kids to soccer practice with a boat hitched. A few yacht clubs are in town as well as upscale dining & shopping & a very good/well known public school system. Northport High School is a very good school with quality education & standards. It is known to be one of the best schools in the area with the top art program in the state & one of the top schools in the nation. That includes all types of art at the college level, as well as theatre, & the music program. The marching band does a show every year competing with all other marching bands on L.I. & Npt has won so many times consecutively, there is no competition anymore, its just a show with Npt last as the grand finale. Athletic wise, girls lax is one of the top teams in the nation with the coach who also started a very famous travel lax team, the Yellow Jackets. Girls on the team go to the national team & play in IVY league/top D1 teams such as Yale, Princeton, & Florida St.. The girls soccer team is also good, as well as track/cross country, & more recently, field hockey. NCU & Northwestern have track girls & more D1 and D2 like Siena & Slippery Rock have taken field hockey girls. Even our basketball team has a girl at Delaware. For the boys, the track & cx are also a hit with D1.
Northport is a very lovely town on the north shore of Long Island, NY and shares the wealth of the Gold Coast in Suffolk County.
by nptfam November 29, 2012