Niagara Falls High School

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Location
Niagara Falls High School
Niagara Falls, NY
Information
Students	approx. 2300
Faculty	approx. 130
Type	Public
Mascot	Wolverine
Color(s)	Blue and gold
Established	1888
Other School Administors	Susan Green, James Spanbauer, Jeff Showers,Robert Bradley Jr.
Homepage	Niagara Falls High School

Niagara Falls High School is a co-educational public high school located at 4455 Porter Road in Niagara Falls, New York. The school was founded in 2000.

The school is a part of the Niagara Falls City School District. It was built in 1999 and opened in 2000. Funding for the school came through a unique public/private partnership and special legislation at the State level. NFHS has state-of-the-art technology throughout the building. It has an olympic sized swimming pool, a television station that provides educational access programming to the western end of Niagara County, and a library media center, along with multiple, efficient class rooms. The school is run by current Chief Educational Administrator Mark Laurrie. The building is secured by a safety staff that monitors the school through state-of-the-art cameras in a control room. The NFHS mascot is Spike the Wolverine and school colors are blue and gold.

1 Television Station
2 Administration
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Television Station

The Our Schools Channel is the Educational Access Channel for the western portion of Niagara County. The programming that it creates or accepts from schools and colleges to be broadcast is educational in nature. The station is operated by the NFHS students who are part of the Media Production Program. The mission of the OSC is to promote better understanding in the community by providing quality educational programming and to provide an outstanding educational experience by offering NFHS media production students unique opportunities to develop technical and communication skills through the operation of an actual television station. The television can be viewed by watching local cable channel 21, or from the Niagara Falls Board of Education's website, www.nfschools.net. The program is under the direction of Richard Meranto.

[edit] Administration

The High School is divided into four different towers, BFE (Business Finance Entrepeunership), VPC (Visual Performing Culture), MST (Math Science Technology), and HSR (Health Sports Recreation).

Niagara Falls High School is run by a Chief Educational Administrator along with four principals and four deans. In all, there are nine administrators in the school. As of 2008 the administration is as follows:

CEA: Mark Laurrie

School Principal: James Spanbauer (MST Principal)

House Principals: Jeffrey Showers, Robert Bradley, Susan Green

Deans: Brian Carey, Sabatino Giancola, Derek Zimmerman, John Forcucci