Horace Greeley High School

Horace Greeley High School
Address
70 Roaring Brook Road Chappaqua, New York, 10514 USA
Coordinates	41°10′28″N 73°45′24″W / 41.17444°N 73.75667°W / 41.17444; -73.75667Coordinates: 41°10′28″N 73°45′24″W / 41.17444°N 73.75667°W / 41.17444; -73.75667
Information
School type	State & District, Public High school
Founded	1928 as Horace Greeley Central School (grades 1–12)
MOE 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]
Grades	9–12
Gender	Co-ed
Enrolment	1349
Number of students	~1342
Student:teacher ratio	11.6
Language	English
Hours in school day	6 hrs, 50 minutes
Campus size	12 buildings, 55 square feet each.
Slogan	"The Lifelong Joy of Learning"
Mascot	Quaker
Team name	Quakers
National ranking	675th
Newspaper	The Greeley Tribune, The Greeley Advocate, Satori
Yearbook	The Quaker
Budget	Unlimited [2]
Tuition	None
Communities served	New Castle, New York, parts of Mt. Kisco, New York
Phone Number	(914) 861-9400
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.^[3]

Contents 1 Administration 2 Distinctions 3 Student clubs 4 Athletics 5 Campus 6 Notable alumni 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Administration

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.

[edit] Distinctions

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.^[3]

The high school is strong in several extracurricular programs. Its academic challenge team won the National Academic Championship in 2003, finished third in 2007, and placed among the top six teams at the national tournament in five of the six years between 2000 and 2005.^{[citation needed]}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.^[4] 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.^[5] a child study program linked to an on-site preschool;^[6] Arts and athletic offerings are extensive, and classes are offered in five foreign languages: Spanish, French, Latin, and, at the LIFE school, Italian. Russian was previously offered, but is no longer taught. 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^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Student clubs

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 yearbook is The Quaker, also the school mascot. In 2006, The Advocate, a former newspaper, was redesigned and changed its format to a modern, color, magazine layout, called Advo. The school also has a sports magazine called The Quake, which was 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.D. (Students Against Drinking and Drugging while Driving), 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.^[7]

[edit] Athletics

Sports are popular on campus and among the diverse offerings are varsity programs in baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, 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.^[8] 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-country 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.^{[citation needed]} In 2007, both the Horace Greeley Cross Country Varsity Boys' and Girls' teams won the league championship.^{[citation needed]} 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).^{[citation needed]} 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.^[9] In 2008/2009, the Greeley Swim Team went undefeated winning their league, division and their first Section 1 title since 1994. ^[10] The ski team had a successful undefeated season in 2008/2009, winning the League title and placing second in Sectionals.

[edit] Campus

The school is made up of 12 buildings all of which are named by letter. Buildings such as the Gym and Cafeteria are referred to as such and not by their letter name.^[11] Multiple athletic fields and a tennis court are also on campus, as well as an observatory.

[edit] Notable alumni

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Horace Greeley High School has a number of notable alumni, many of them now in the entertainment industry.

• William Ackman, (1984), hedge fund investor (Pershing Square Capital Management)
• Adam Arkin (1980), actor (son of actor Alan Arkin)
• Joe Berlinger (1979), director of the film Some Kind of Monster (2004);
• Bibi Besch, (1959), TV actress seen in multiple Star Trek, Jeff Foxworthy Show, and Falcon Crest episodes
• Richie Erenberg (1980), former football player, Pittsburgh Steelers 1984–87
• Roxanne Hart (1969), actress in film and television and on stage – with recurring roles in Dream On, Oz, and Chicago Hope (On the latter series, she played the wife of fellow HGHS alum Adam Arkin.)
• Susan Hockfield (1969), president (2004–) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Heather Paige Kent (1986), actress, star of That's Life (2000)
• Steve Kroft (1963), journalist and correspondent on the TV program 60 Minutes
• Brian Leiser (1990), alternative musician, member of Fun Lovin' Criminals
• Richard McKelvey (1961), Political scientist
• Jordan Mechner (1981), game designer, creator of the computer game Karateka, the video game Last Express, and the series of Prince of Persia video games;
• Dan O'Keefe (1986), TV writer for Seinfeld, famous for introducing Festivus;
• Laurence O'Keefe (1987), composer who co-wrote the Tony Award nominated music and lyrics for Legally Blonde: The Musical
• Mark O'Keefe (1989), screenwriter, including Bruce Almighty (2003) and Click (2006)
• Andy Rubin, technology pioneer (hand-held devices), inventor of Android operating system
• Jay O. Sanders, stage and film actor imdb;
• Eric Stangel (1989), a head writer and producer of The Late Show with David Letterman
• Justin Stangel (1987), a head writer and producer of The Late Show with David Letterman
• Dar Williams (1984), folk-pop singer-songwriter;
• Vanessa L. Williams (1981), model, actress and singer

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• School website
• School District website
• America's Best High Schools Ranking by US New & World Report

Preceded by Irmo High School

National Academic Championship champion 2003

Succeeded by Saint Thomas Academy