| Horace Greeley High School | |
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| Address | |
| 70 Roaring Brook Road Chappaqua, New York, 10514 USA |
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| Information | |
| School type | State & District, Public High school |
| Founded | 1928 as Horace Greeley Central School (grades 1–12) |
| School code | 331315 (ACT/SAT/AP) |
| Principal | Andrew Selesnick |
| Vice principal | Michael Taylor |
| Assistant Principals | Michael Taylor (9,12) Mark Bayer (9,11) Michele Glenn (9,10) |
| Faculty | 197 including district-wide personnel (2008–2009) [1] |
| Teaching staff | 122 (2008–2009) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Co-ed |
| Number of students | ~1342 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 11.6 |
| Language | English |
| Hours in school day | 6 hrs, 50 minutes |
| Campus size | 12 buildings, 55 square feet (5.1 m2) each. |
| School Color(s) | Blue and Orange |
| Slogan | "The Lifelong Joy of Learning" |
| Mascot | Quaker |
| Team name | Quakers |
| National ranking | 675th |
| Newspaper | The Greeley Tribune,
The Quake, ADVO, Satori |
| Yearbook | 'The Quaker' |
| Budget | $110,000,000 |
| Tuition | None |
| Communities served | New Castle, New York (part) |
| Constructed | 1957 |
| Website | http://hg.ccsd.ws/ |
Horace Greeley High School is a public, four-year secondary school serving students in grades 9–12 in Chappaqua, New York. It is part of the Chappaqua Central School District.
The school, which is housed in a 11-building campus (named with "A building", "B building", etc. all the way to "L building"). The school has about 1300 students and 100 faculty members, there is no "I" building above ground.[2]
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The principal is Andrew Selesnick. The school has three assistant principals, with one assigned to each grade except for ninth which is divided up among the three. Mark Bayer, Michelle Glenn and Michael Taylor are the other assistant principals.
Greeley is nationally respected for its high academic standards. The high school was ranked #46 nationally in the 2008 US News & World Report rankings of "America's Best High Schools," and #7 among those with open enrollment. It currently offers 23 advanced placement courses. Recent years have seen approximately one-tenth of graduating seniors recognized by the National Merit Scholarship committee; the class of 2004 included 25 National Merit semifinalists; the class of 2005 had 16; the class of 2007, 22. The mean SAT score among graduating seniors in the Class of 2005 was 1269 (612 Verbal and 657 Math). 97% of the Class of 2005 went on to higher education, 96% to four-year colleges.[2]
The high school is strong in several extracurricular programs. Its academic challenge team won the National Academic Championship in 2003, finished third in 2007, 2009 and 2010, and placed among the top six teams at the national tournament in five of the six years between 2000 and 2005. Chip Beall, the organizer of the tournament, noted in 2007 that Greeley's team had "the most airline miles logged at the National Academic Association's expense", a nod to their placement in the final rounds of the tournament more times than any other team in the tournament's history.[3] The Horace Greeley Debate Team has been successful at many regional tournaments as well as national tournaments, and has sent debaters to States every year since its inception in 2002. The Madrigal Choir, a select group of students auditioned from the full chorus, recently attended the prestigious Disney Honors festival in Orlando, Florida.
Programs at Horace Greeley include the LIFE (Learning Independently From Experience) school, an alternative school for grades 11–12 located on campus, and independent study and senior project options.[4] a child study program linked to an on-site preschool;[5] Arts and athletic offerings are extensive, and classes are offered in five foreign languages: Spanish, French, Latin, and, at the LIFE school, Italian. Chinese is now offered as well. In the 2005–2006 school year, Ancient Greek was taught for the first time, as an independent study. The Latin 4-level poetry class has been approved through the SUNY Albany University in High School Programs as a third-semester college course; students are eligible to receive three college credits by fulfilling the requirements of the course .
The school is named for Horace Greeley, the editor of The New York Tribune who made his home in Chappaqua late in life. One of the school's two main publications, The Greeley Tribune, is an additional tribute to the newsman. The school's other main publication is ADVO, a full-color, student-run magazine that, until 2006, was known as The Advocate. The school's yearbook is The Quaker, also the school mascot. The school also has a sports magazine called The Quake, founded in 2010. It is named after the unofficial name for the school's cheering section.
Other student organizations at Greeley include the Model United Nations, One World Study Circle, community service groups S.H.A.R.E., S.A.D.D. (Students Against Drinking and Driving), AAPA (African Anti Poverty Association), Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Alliance for Equality, Students for Social Justice, AIDS Awareness, FCCLA, the Horace Greeley Improvisational Acting Troupe, Silent Earth: Greening Greeley, Amnesty International, and OPM (Orange Peach Mango), and the recently abolished funball club due to an unfortunate occurrence, among many others.[6] Peer leadership is also a popular student/faculty run organization on campus that gives older a chance to help acclimate younger students to the high-school environment.
Sports are popular on campus and among the diverse offerings are varsity programs in baseball, basketball, bowling, field hockey, American football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and cross country, volleyball, and wrestling. The school's only state championship came in 2002 and was won by the cross country team.[1] That same year the school's football team finished with a record of 11–2 and losing 22–15 to Rochester's Aquinas Institute in the New York State Class A State Championship game.[7] The 2002 Boys Cross Country team won the Class B title, and remains the only Greeley sports team to win a state championship. In 2006, the school's girls' cross-gendered team won the League and Sectional titles, and finished 2nd in Class A States, and the Boys won the League and Section titles to finish 5th in the state. In 2007, both the girls' and boys' soccer teams made it to the state soccer tournament. In 2007, both the Horace Greeley Cross Country Varsity Boys' and Girls' teams won the league championship. Swimming has also been one of the most successful sports at Greeley, with four straight Sectional Championships in the early nineties ('91, '92, '93, '94). In the 2007/2008 season the Quakers were undefeated in their dual meet season capturing the League title. They followed the League Championship with a division championship a few weeks later.[8] In 2008/2009, the Greeley Swim Team went undefeated winning their league, division and their first Section 1 title since 1994. [9] The ski team had a successful undefeated season in 2008/2009, winning the League title and placing second in Sectionals.
The school is made up of 11 buildings all of which are named by letter. Buildings such as the Gym (A Building) and Cafeteria (H Building) are referred to as such and not by their letter name.[10] Multiple athletic fields and a tennis court are also on campus, as well as an observatory. Curiously, there is no I Building, and it is a common prank for upperclassmen to inform incoming Freshmen that there is an I Building or on-campus pool.
Horace Greeley High School has a number of notable alumni, many of them now in the entertainment industry.
| Preceded by Irmo High School |
National Academic Championship champion 2003 |
Succeeded by Saint Thomas Academy |