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Cheltenham High School is a public high school in Wyncote, Pennsylvania serving grades 9 through 12.

The current enrollment for the 2005-2006 school year is 1,701.

The teacher to student ratio is 1:15. Ethnicity is distributed as follows: 54% caucasian, 36% black, 9% asian, and 2% hispanic.

Cheltenham High School was used as a filming site for the 1988 movie The In Crowd.[1]

Cheltenham High School made the national news when then-President George Bush was the commencement speaker on June 19, 1989. In his remarks, Mr. Bush praised "this magnificent school...with a superb record of achievement in social sciences and music and academics and the humanities."^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notable Alumni

• Candace Allen, '01, Miss District of Columbia USA 2006

• Michael Brecker, '67 Grammy Award-winning Jazz Artist

• Randy Brecker, '63 Grammy Award-winning Jazz Artist

• Michael S. Brown, MD, '58 1985 Nobel Prize in Medicine

• Laurie Colwin, '62 Author and Columnist

• Tom Feeney, Member of Congress, R-FL

• Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Wilmot E. Fleming, '35 State Senator

• Jon D. Fox, '65 U.S. Congressman

• Werner Gundersheimer, '55 Director, Folger Shakespeare Library

• Laura Harper, '04, College Basketball Player, Womens NCAA Final Four MVP

• Trina Schart Hyman, '56 Artist & Illustrator

• Reggie Jackson, '64 Professional Baseball Player

• Richard Levinson, '52 Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Producer

• William Link, '52 Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Produc

• Craig Littlepage, '69 College Administrator & Educator

• Mary Ellen Mark, '58 Photojournalist

• Robert J. Myers, '29 Social Security Expert

• Benjamin Netanyahu, '67 Prime Minister of Israel

• Yonatan Netanyahu, '64 Officer, Israeli Defense Forces

• Donald Pike, '33 Emmy Award-Winning Technical Manager

• Richard Rothman, '54 Surgeon, Founder of the Rothman Institute

• David Saxon, '37 Physicist, Educator & Administrator

• Roger Scott, '36 Musician & Educator

• Robert C. Solomon, PhD, '60 Author & Educator

• Wallace Triplett, '45 Professional Football Player

[edit] External links

• Cheltenham High School Profile

Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania

Cheltenham • Elkins Park • Glenside • La Mott • Laverock • Melrose Park • Wyncote

Educational Institutions: Arcadia University • Cheltenham High School • Pennsylvania College of Optometry • Reconstructionist Rabbinical College • Tyler School of Art • Westminster Theological Seminary

Points of Interest: Beth Sholom Synagogue • Curtis Hall Arboretum • Wall House

See also: Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district