Pittsford-mendon High School - Pittsford, New York/NY

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Pittsford-mendon High School

472 Mendon Road, Pittsford, NY, 14534-9515 -

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Pittsford-mendon High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Monroe County, NY

Students & Faculty

Total Students

969 students

% Male / % Female

49% / 51%

Total Classroom Teachers

75 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 229 students

Grade 10 - 259 students

Grade 11 - 243 students

Grade 12 - 238 students

This School

(NY) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:13

1:14

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(NY) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	1%
% Asian	4%	4%
% Hispanic	1%	17%
% Black	3%	19%
% White	92%	58%

Additional Student Information

This School

(NY) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

28%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

n/a

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(NY) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Pittsford Central School District

This School's Agency

(NY) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	8	4
Number of Students Managed	6,006 students	2,265 students
District Total Revenue	$84,322,000	$31,819,000
District Expenditure	$133,949,000	$31,869,000
District Revenue / Student	$14,040	$14,048
District Expenditure / Student	$22,303	$14,070
District Graduation Rates	87%	97%

Super Sale a ‘win-win’ for all (MPNnow.com)
posted on October 30, 2009 at 02:10:14 pm
The Pittsford Parent Teacher Student Association used its annual household sale to raise money for school enrichment programs.
Pittsford native wins Wall Street decathlon for father (News 10 NBC Rochester)
posted on October 25, 2009 at 05:22:21 pm
Kyle Peterson was annointed the unofficial best athlete on Wall Street, but more importantly, won...
Pittsford wins battle of unbeatens (MPNnow.com)
posted on October 23, 2009 at 01:30:00 pm
HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING
Pittsford swimmers raise cash ... by walking (MPNnow.com)
posted on October 22, 2009 at 11:45:27 am
Pittsford swimmers raised more than $4,000 through the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event.
Pittsford graduate honored for ethanol project (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
posted on October 16, 2009 at 12:11:19 pm
A student who graduated from Pittsford Mendon High School has won an award for young achievement.

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Pittsford Mendon High School is a public high school in suburban Rochester, Monroe County, upstate New York. It is one of two high schools in the Pittsford Central School District, the other being Pittsford Sutherland High School. Pittsford Mendon is located at 472 Mendon Road (from which the school gets its name) in the town of Pittsford, near the town of Mendon, New York.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 969 students and 75 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.9.
Awards and recognition
Pittsford Mendon was ranked 91st in the country (a Gold Medal School) by U.S. News & World Report in its 2008 high school rankings.
In 2007, the school was ranked 94th nationwide in Newsweek's Top 1,300 High School's in the United States. Rankings are calculated using "a ratio that takes the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate, and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2006 divided by the number of graduating seniors."
The school was ranked in 58th place nationwide in Newsweek's May 8, 2006 issue, listing the Top 1,200 High Schools in The United States.. Pittsford Mendon High School was ranked as Number 39 in the United States in Newsweek's 2005 survey..
Academics
Mendon offers a variety of courses, with numerous Advanced Placement (AP) courses in Science, English, Social Studies, Math, Art, Foreign Language, and Music.
Many of Mendon's top students go on to earn degrees at Ivy League schools.
Notable alumni
Tyson Beckford, supermodel, actor.
Nicole Fiscella, actress, noted for her role as Isabel Coates on Gossip Girl
Stephen Gilfus, Co-Founder of DC-based educational software developer Blackboard Inc.; Chairman of Upside Over Inc.
JMR, guitarist, singer and songwriter
Peter Kluge, Actor, Producer of 2009 film Near Fall
Greg Monroe - basketball player
James Satloff, Investment bank CEO, Internet company CEO, Ski Company CEO
David Stainton, President of Walt Disney Feature Animation
Joy Tanner, actress, noted for her role as Nora MacDonald on Disney's Life With Derek
Feeder patterns
Park Road Elementary School, Thornell Road Elementary School, and the southern part of Mendon Center Elementary School feed into Barker Road Middle School, then to Pittsford Mendon High School.
External links
Pittsford Mendon website
Mendon Theatre
Past Mendon students' college admission decisions

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