Pittsford Sutherland High School

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Built	1957
School District	Pittsford Central
Grade Levels	9 through 12
Principal	Liz Konar
Assistant Principals	John Weymann Eileen Scoville
Enrollment	945

Pittsford Sutherland High School is a high school in Suburban Rochester, Monroe County, Upstate New York.

1 The school
- 1.1 History
- 1.2 Reconstruction
2 Notable alumni
3 Feeder patterns
4 External links

[edit] The school

The town's first high school (the second being Pittsford Mendon High School) is located at 55 Sutherland Street (from which the school gets its name). Located in the historic Village of Pittsford, Pittsford Sutherland High School has consistently been ranked as one of the top 100 high schools in the nation according to an annual listing in Newsweek. Currently, Pittsford Sutherland is in 61st place.

[edit] History

Pittsford Sutherland was built in 1957 to reduce strains on the Pittsford School building.

[edit] Reconstruction

Starting in 2004, Pittsford Schools started a renovation project on all the buildings in the district. Currently, Sutherland is in Phase II of this process, with the addition of a new auditorium, gymnasium, 16 new classrooms (2 of which are Physics only rooms), and commons area. In addition, Sutherland students got a new library which was constructed in the old auditorium space. Architects retained some of the features of the old auditorium such as the high ceiling and woodwork from the old stage. The new library finally opened at the end of January, 2007, and the old library was then converted into a Large Group Instruction Room (L.G.I.).

[edit] Notable alumni

Lee-Hom Wang, C-pop singer
Ryan Blackwell, former Syracuse University basketball player
Jazzmen Williams, former Boston College football player (Set Section V rushing record with 4482 career yards)
Teddy Geiger, pop singer. (However, he attended McQuaid Jesuit High School through his Junior year and transferred to SHS his senior year, but failed to graduate with class of 2006 or at all.)^{[citation needed]}
David Smethurst, author of Tripoli: The United States' First War On Terror. New York: Presidio Press, 2006. ISBN 0-89141-859-8

[edit] Feeder patterns

Allen Creek, Jefferson Road, and the northern part of Mendon Center Elementary Schools feed into Calkins Road Middle School, then to Pittsford Sutherland High School.