| Pine Bush High School | |
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| Location | |
| Pine Bush, New York |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1938 |
| School district | Pine Bush Central School District |
| Principal | Mr. Hopmayor |
| Faculty | 133[1] |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,963 [2] |
| Color(s) | Blue, Gold |
| Athletics | Football, Cross-country, Volleyball, Track, Basketball, Baseball, and Lacrosse |
| Mascot | Bushmen |
| Website | School Homepage |
Pine Bush High School is the central high school for the Pine Bush Central School District, located on NY 302 in the hamlet of Pine Bush, New York. Drawing over 2,000 students from northwestern Orange County and the adjacent portions of Sullivan and Ulster counties.
The school no longer offers the International Baccalaureate degree program. It had been authorized to do so since 2002.[3]
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In October 2004 the school made national news when junior Joshua Phelps was suspended for 21 days for possessing a firearm on campus.[4] The weapon in question was a musket, which Phelps had forgotten to remove from his car after participating in a Civil War re-enactment. Town of Crawford police charged him with a misdemeanor after confiscating the gun, a bayonet and ammunition from the vehicle. He received many letters of support locally and nationally, particularly from members of the National Rifle Association, but the school district refused to lessen his punishment, citing zero tolerance policies it and many other schools adopted in the wake of the Columbine massacre several years earlier.[5] The criminal charge was later dropped.[6]