- 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 12-building campus (named with "A building", "B building", etc. all the way to "L building," with the exception of an "I building," which doesn't exist), has about 1300 students and 100 faculty members.
- History
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Horace Greeley High School began in 1924 when all of the approximately 6 school districts became the Chappaqua Central School District. It began as Horace Greeley Central school, serving grades 1-12. In 1957, the school moved to its current location on Roaring Brook Road. Its original location is now the site of Robert E. Bell Middle School. Today, Horace Greeley High School is home to several sports teams, and ranks 46 out of 100 schools nationally.
- Administration
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The school principal is Andrew Selesnick. The school has three assistant principals, with one assigned to each grade except for 9th which is divided up among the three. Michael Taylor is the class principal for the class of 2011 and Michele Glenn is the assistant principal for this year's graduating class: the class of 2010.
- Distinctions
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Horace 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 #11 among those with open enrollment. It currently offers 23 advanced placement courses. According to ratings by the Wall Street Journal, Horace Greeley was ranked in a tie for first place among public high schools in the entire country. 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.
[ Many Horace Greeley graduates matriculate at top-ranked universities, including the schools of the Ivy League.] - The high school is strong in several extracurricular programs. Its quiz bowl 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. 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 [1]. 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 Science Olympiad and Model United Nations teams have also won numerous accolades, as have the newspapers and yearbook. In addition, the high school's orchestra, chorus, and band are consistent winners of the Music in the Parks state competitions held annually at Six Flags in New Jersey, as well as the Great East Festival held at Six Flags in Massachusetts. The Madrigal Choir, a select group of students auditioned from the full chorus, recently attended the prestigious Disney Honors festival in Orlando, Florida.
- Distinctive programs at Horace Greeley include the LIFE (Learning Independently From Experience) school, an alternative school for grades 11-12 located on campus; independent study and senior project options
[http://www2.chappaqua.k12.ny.us/hgfaculty/walker/LIFE/]; a child study program linked to an on-site preschool [http://hg.ccsd.ws/departments.cfm?subpage=240001]; college-level classes offered through a partnership with Syracuse University; and a science research program to prepare students for prestigious competitions like the Intel Science Talent Search. Arts and athletic offerings are extensive, and classes are offered in four 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. - Namesake
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The school is named for Horace Greeley, a U.S. presidential candidate and 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.
- Other student organizations at Greeley include the Model United Nations, the umbrella community service group 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), among many others.
[http://www.ccsd.ws/hg/HGweb/gweb5/StudentHandbook.htm] - Athletics
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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. 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.
[ http://www.section4football.com/stateplayoffs/#2002] 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. 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.[http://www.greeleysportsboosters.org/Winter/SwimmingBoys.htm] In 2008/2009, the Greeley Swim Team went undefeated winning their league, division and their first Section 1 title since 1994.[ http://www.section1swim.com/Results/BoysHS/2009/Sec1/Meet.htm] The ski team had a successful undefeated season in 2008/2009, winning the League title and placing second in Sectionals. - Campus
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The school is made up of 12 buildings all of which are named by letter letter. Ex: A Building, B Building etc. Buildings such as the Gym and Cafeteria are referred to as such and not by their letter name. There is NO I building. It is a common prank to inform freshmen at the beginning of the year that there is.
- Notable alumni
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Horace Greeley High School has a number of notable alumni, many of them now in the entertainment industry.
- Conor Byrne (2006), Motion Designer, Illustrator.
- Lawrence Meyers (1984), screenwriter, writer-producer of several television shows including Picket Fences, The Pretender, Roar, The Outer Limits and Crossing Jordan;
- Vanessa L. Williams (1981), model, actress and singer.
[ http://www.vanessawilliams.com/bio.html]
- Steve Kroft (1963), journalist, Emmy award-winning correspondant for 60 Minutes
- External links
- School website
- Alumni Center
- Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund
- School District website
- greatschools - Horace Greeley High School
- America's Best High Schools Ranking by US New & World Report
- Greeley Sports Boosters
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