Lyman Hall High School
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Lyman Hall High School is a public high school located at 70 Pond Hill Road in Wallingford, Connecticut. It is part of the Wallingford School System.
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[edit] Mission Statement
Lyman Hall High School's Mission Statement is:
At Lyman Hall High School, all students can achieve at high levels in a community that acknowledges its diversity and provides challenging programs designed to meet individual needs.
[edit] History
Lyman Hall High School is named in honor of Lyman Hall, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who was born in Wallingford on April 12, 1724.
The school's original location was on South Main Street, and is the current location of Wallingford's Town Hall. In the year 1957 the school was moved to its current location in southeast Wallingford, where it rests on a campus of 39 acres.
[edit] Academic Programs
Lyman Hall High School is known throughout the state of Connecticut for its wide range of academic courses. The school is one of only four in the entire state of Connecticut that offers courses in all of the career clusters identified by the Connecticut Department of Education.In addition to courses in what are considered normal academic areas, i.e. mathematics and science, students can elect to take courses in Agriculture, Transportation Technologies, Communication Technologies, Construction Technologies, Food Service, Family and Consumer Science, and Medical Careers.
[edit] Agricultural Education
Lyman Hall is a Regional Vocational Agricultural Education Center. Lyman Hall enrolls 225 students from Wallingford and nine surrounding towns for this program.
[edit] Advanced Placement
Lyman Hall features one of the foremost Advanced Placement programs in the state of Connecticut. AP courses taught at Lyman Hall span across Science, Math, Social Studies, Music, and English. The AP Social Studies program is of special note, including courses taught in United States History, Government and Politics: Comparative, Government and Politics: American, Marcoeconomics, Microeconomics, Psychology, European History, and most recently World History.
[edit] Athletics
Despite Lyman Hall's wide range of academic activities, it is the school's athletics which generate the most pride. The Lyman Hall Trojans have a variety of athletic programs, including (but not limited to) field hockey, ice hockey, swimming, soccer, and most notably track and field.
In recent years the Men's Track and Field program at Lyman Hall High School has experienced a high level of success. The team records CIAC State Class Championships for outdoor track in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 2004. The team has followed up its State Championship in 2004 with a 4th place finish at the Class L meet in 2005, and a 6th place finish for Class L in 2006. For its efforts in the 2004 season, coach Ed Neilander received the Coach of the Year Award from the New Haven Register. The current coach of the Men's Track and Field team is Jason Zettergren, who also holds a school record at Lyman Hall in the 4x400m relay.
[edit] Trojan Times
The Trojan Times in Lyman Hall's school newspaper. It is put together by an editorial board that meets after school, using articles written by journalism classes and other students. If interested, one can view archives of old articles.
[edit] Administration
Lyman Hall High School's Administration consists of:
Principal: David C.Bryant
Vice-Principals: Bonnie Roman, Barry O'Neill
[edit] ODB
ODB is an nickname affectionately assigned to Principal David C. Bryant. The moniker refers to Bryant's alias as "Old Dave Bryant." Students in the school often refer to Principal Bryant as "ODB" rather than Mr. Bryant. It is considered accepted and polite to use this nickname.
[edit] Bomb Threats
Lyman Hall High School experiences an unusually high amount of "bomb threats." In recent years, the first of which occurred in the fall of 2004, when a bomb threat was left by a student on the school's computer network. Since then, bomb threats have been used as a method to disrupt class and grant early dismissal. Bomb threats normally result in an evacuation of the school, followed by a migration of students to the adjacent Dag Hammarskjold Middle School. The identity of the original student who made this bomb threat, aka the "mad bomber," still remains unknown.
Due to the extremely high amount of Bomb threats to the school, The Administration does not even evacuate the entire building. These "bomb threats" do not even retain a high priority amongst the Lyman Hall staff due to the precarious dealings of high integration into the Lyman Hall student experience.
