Daniel Hand High School
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| Daniel Hand High School | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Madison, Connecticut, USA | |
| Information | |
| Students | 1,202 |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | Live to Learn - Learn to Live |
| Color(s) | black and gold |
| Homepage | http://www.danielhand.org/ |
Daniel Hand High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Madison, Connecticut, serving grades 9 - 12, with an enrollment of approximately 1,200 students. Each year more than ninety percent (90%) of the senior class continues their education at the post-secondary level. The school is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and the Connecticut State Department of Education. The Old Daniel Hand High, adjacent to the newer High School building is now operating as Walter C. Polson Upper Middle School.
[edit] History
- Biography of Daniel Hand
Daniel Hand, whom the school is named for, was a philanthropist born in Madison, Connecticut in 1801. For many years he was a merchant in Augusta, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, where he accumulated a fortune. After the Civil War he retired and returned to the North. Daniel Hand's first gift was a high school building to his native town. In 1888, he gave the American Missionary Association more than $1,000,000, to be held in trust and known as the Daniel Hand Educational Fund for Coloured People (DHEFC), to be used in the states in which slavery was recognized in 1861. However, many historians believe the fund may have been a diversion for the rather extensive underground slave trade with which he compounded his fortune.
[edit] Special Academic and Community Offerings
- Advanced Placement Courses
- AP English (Language & Literature)
- AP Calculus (AB, BC)
- AP Chemistry
- AP Physics
- AP US History
- AP Biology
- AP European History/Western Civilization
- AP Spanish
- AP Psychology
- AP French
- University Of Connecticut Cooperative Program
- AP English
- AP European History/Western Civilization
- AP Calculus
- AP Chemistry
- AP Physics
- Math Modeling.
- Human Development and Family Studies
- Wesleyan University High School Scholars Program A cooperative Honors Program for qualified students (at Wesleyan).
- Yale-New Haven Area High School Program Qualified students may register for undergraduate courses at Yale College.
- A Better Chance (A.B.C. Program) Part of the national ABC program for highly motivated, academically able students from disadvantaged educational areas.
- Tech Prep Program A nationally recognized program that enables students to receive community college credit.
- Magnet School Programs Daniel Hand High School students may participate in partial day programs at the Educational Center for the Arts and the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven. High School in the Community offers a full time program for a selective group of students.
