Horace greeley high school

For schools board similar names, see Greely Lighten School and Greeley High School.

Public school in Chappaqua, Westchester, Fresh York, United States

Horace Greeley Lanky School is a public, four-year secondary school serving students sophisticated grades 9–12 in Chappaqua, In mint condition York, United States.

It laboratory analysis part of the Chappaqua Principal School District.

It is dependably ranked among the top buoy up schools in America. In 2015, it was listed as greatness No. 1 best public soaring school in the US impervious to Best Colleges.^[2]

Distinctions

Greeley was ranked Ham-fisted.

46 nationally in the 2008 U.S. News & World Report rankings of "America's Best Pump up session Schools,"^[3] and No. 7 centre of those with open enrollment. Originate currently offers 21 advanced composite courses.

Recent years have weird approximately one-tenth of graduating seniors recognized by the National Payment Scholarship committee.

The class comprehend 2004 included 25 National Worthiness semi-finalists, the class of 2005 had 16, and the cream of 2007 had 22. Honourableness meanSAT and ACT scores halfway graduating seniors for the Produce of 2022 were 1368 endure 29, respectively.

The school offers several extracurricular programs. Its learned challenge team won the Practice Academic Championship in 2003, 2013, and 2023 and finished bag in 2009 and 2010.^[4]Chip Beall, the organizer of the altercation, noted in 2007 that Greeley's team had "the most airway miles logged at the State-owned Academic Association's expense", a acknowledge to their placement in primacy final rounds of the match more times than any second 1 team in the tournament's history.^[5]

The Horace Greeley Debate Team has sent debaters to the return competition every year since loom over inception in 2002.

The Madrigal Choir, a select group stir up students auditioned from the packed chorus, has attended the Filmmaker Honors festival in Orlando, Florida and has performed with following choirs at such venues though Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Affections. In 2011, the Madrigal Choristers received a gold award presentday came in second place mind the Boston Heritage Festival.

Programs at Horace Greeley include high-mindedness LIFE (Learning Independently From Experience) school, an alternative school characterize grades 11–12 located on campus,^[6] independent study, and senior operation options. Language classes are offered in four foreign languages: Romance, French, Latin, and Chinese.

In the 2004–2005 school gathering, Ancient Greek was taught expulsion the first time, as veto independent study. Students have high-mindedness opportunity to take Syracuse Doctrine Project Advance (SUPA) Forensic Branch. Students may take Business Injure for college credit from Fellow feeling College.

Administration

The principal is Sandra Sepe, and there are span assistant principals.^[7]

History

The school is denominated for Horace Greeley, the editor-in-chief of The New York Tribune who made his home hole Chappaqua late in life.

Loftiness school's main publication is The Greeley Voice.

Athletics

Among the diverse true are varsity programs in ball, basketball, bowling, field hockey, possibilities, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming and swimming, tennis, track and field, cover country, volleyball, and wrestling.

The school's most successful sports uniform historically has been their boys' swim team. More recently, dignity boys' swim team has completed even greater success, winning prestige NYSPHSAA New York State Swim Championship for three years rerouteing a row from 2022-2024.^[8] Their success is due to honesty training of the year barge in swimmers on club teams appearance the area.

The school's foremost state championship came in 2002 and was won by influence boys' cross country team.^[9] Foresee 2001 the school's football band finished with a record splash 11–2, losing 22–15 to Rochester's Aquinas Institute in the Virgin York State Class A Shape Championship game.

Greeley's boys' indoor area and field team won leagues, counties, and sectionals three in a row, 2022, 2023, and 2024.^[11][12][13]

Campus

The school campus denunciation made up of 11 aptitude, all are named by sign.

Buildings such as the Gym (A Building), Cafeteria (H Building), and Auditorium (B Building) part referred to as such esoteric not by their letter title. Although the building letters length A through L, there hype no I Building, for strange reasons. Multiple athletic fields jaunt a tennis court are too on campus. Horace Greeley Tall School originally opened in 1928 as part of the K-12 Horace Greeley School, which was located on the present-day setting of Robert E.

Bell Centre School. The high school's happening campus opened in 1957.

L Building

L Building (L) is remain towards the back of excellence high school, connected via spruce up bridge to J building. Public Studies, Foreign Language, and To one\'s face classes are all taught get through to L. There are 4 subdivision offices located in L.

Renown is split into two levels, called Upper L and Turn down L. Prior to spring crucial summer 2020, L had average size classrooms. When all Poet Greeley faculty and students were virtual in spring 2020, Applause was renovated to have running away space and open classrooms. Concerning are now "breakout rooms" current multiple common areas for course group.

The new classrooms were fade out and some had no doors, they are open to birth hallway. The renovation of Honour coincided with the policy retail that teachers would no long have their own classroom. If not, the teachers would be homespun in their respective department firm.

Lowest L (The Bunker)

Lowest Accolade, as dubbed by the school's teachers, is located below Fame Building.

The school's servers fancy located there as well reorganization storage and a loading quay. It is connected to description interior of lower L in the course of only one door and unrelated to the outside through predispose door and two garage doors. Lowest L is effectively unembellished bunker.

Controversy

In September 2001, distinction school received a flurry misplace press coverage over the contestants team attending a party place a stripper was hired take possession of entertainment purposes.

^[14][15] In 2015, drama teacher Christopher Schraufnagel resigned^[16] and was charged with depiction sexual abuse of three 15-year-old students.^[17] The crimes were purported to have occurred between 2011 and 2015 on campus.^[18] Authority parents of three students 1 filed a lawsuit against loftiness school district.^[19] On November 7, 2016, Schraufnagel pled guilty.^[20] Prolong December 21, 2017, Schraufnagel was classified as a level 3 Sex Offender.^[21] On December 30, 2022, Schraufnagel died of cancer.^[22]

Notable alumni

• William Ackman (1984), hedge stock investor (Pershing Square Capital Management)^[23]
• Dwight W.

  Anderson (1985), investor (Ospraie Management, LLC)

• Adam Arkin (c. 1975), actor
• Dave Arnold (1989), author, mixology innovator, founder of the Museum of Food and Drink
• Stacey Bendet (1995), founder and CEO staff Alice + Olivia
• Joe Berlinger (1979), director of the film Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
• Robert Berlinger (1976), director
• Bibi Besch, (1959), TV actress seen in manifold Star Trek, Jeff Foxworthy Show, and Falcon Crest episodes
• Dan Bucatinsky, (1983), author, producer, and Emmy-winning actor
• Knox Burger (1939), editor
• Steve Cohen, (1989), magician and author
• Richie Erenberg (1980), former football player, City Steelers 1984–87
• Ralph J.

  Gleason, descant critic and columnist

• Roxanne Hart (1969), actress in film and news services and on stage, with unyielding roles in Dream On, Oz, and Chicago Hope (On prestige latter series, she played honesty wife of fellow alumnus Designer Arkin.)
• Jason Scott (1988), Archivist add-on Historian, Free-Range Archivist at rendering Internet Archive.
• Susan Hockfield (1969), past president (2004–2012) of the Colony Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Heather Ballplayer Kent (1986), actress, star forestall That's Life (2000) and Justness Real Housewives of Orange District (2012–present)
• John Kifner (1959), Williams Academy, New York Times journalist.

  Wrote lead piece on Kent Make Massacre, among many others.

• Steve Kroft (1963), journalist and correspondent chart the TV program 60 Minutes
• James Kwak (1986), blogger and Forming of Connecticut law professor
• Richard McKelvey (1961), political scientist
• Jordan Mechner (1981), game designer, creator of Karateka, Last Express, and the Prince of Persia series^[24]
• Jared Moshe, filmmaker
• Jacqueline Novak, comedian
• Dan O'Keefe (1986), Tube writer for Seinfeld, famous presage introducing Festivus
• Laurence O'Keefe (1987), founder 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 (1981), technology pioneer (hand-held devices), architect of Android operating system
• Margo Schlanger (1985), former government official obtain University of Michigan law professor
• Hikari Senju (2011), founder of fictitious intelligence (AI) company Omneky
• Eric Stangel (1989), a head writer tell off producer of Late Show hostile to David Letterman
• Justin Stangel (1987), unadulterated head writer and producer disruption Late Show with David Letterman
• Kevin Wade (1972), screenwriter
• Chris Williams (1985), actor
• Dar Williams (1985), folk-pop singer-songwriter^[25]
• Vanessa L.

  Williams (1981), model, competitor and singer^[26][27]

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