John Jay Senior High School - Hopewell Junction, New York/NY

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John Jay Senior High School

P.o. Box 38, Hopewell Junction, NY, 12533-0038 -

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Definition of Terms

John Jay Senior High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Dutchess County, NY

Students & Faculty

Total Students

2073 students

% Male / % Female

51% / 49%

Total Classroom Teachers

129 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 565 students

Grade 10 - 488 students

Grade 11 - 511 students

Grade 12 - 509 students

This School

(NY) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:16

1:14

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(NY) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	1%
% Asian	4%	4%
% Hispanic	6%	17%
% Black	4%	19%
% White	86%	58%

Additional Student Information

This School

(NY) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

28%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(NY) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Wappingers Central School District

This School's Agency

(NY) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	15	4
Number of Students Managed	12,401 students	2,265 students
District Total Revenue	$142,633,000	$31,819,000
District Expenditure	$143,568,000	$31,869,000
District Revenue / Student	$11,502	$14,048
District Expenditure / Student	$11,577	$14,070
District Graduation Rates	87%	97%

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John Jay High School is a high school in East Fishkill, New York located on State Route 52, which teaches grades 9 through 12. Students from Van Wyck and Wappingers junior high schools, who have successfully completed the 8th grade continue to the 9th grade at either Roy C. Ketcham High School or John Jay. The school is a part of the Wappingers Central School District.
The school is named in memory of 18th century American politician and writer, John Jay. Jay is most famous for his role in the development of the American nation, as an author of the Federalist Papers and later as the 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States so it is only appropriate that the school's mascot is the Patriot.
John Jay HS was built to accommodate the growth of the Wappingers School District. Prior to 1969, Ketcham High School was the district's only high school, 8 miles away in Wappingers Falls. The 1975 graduating class was the first class to have completed four full years at John Jay HS.
Growing pains in Southern Dutchess County have, like a number of schools in the area, taken a toll on John Jay. A number of classes have more than 25 students in them. In 2002, a new biology-chemistry wing was opened for the exclusive use of these laboratory courses. In 2009, a new math wing was opened on the first floor. The school is geographically surrounded by IBM East Fishkill. The presence of IBM in the area has fueled and helped to fund a model example of a high school engineering focus. John Jay offers many classes focused on engineering, with some classes utilizing college-level computer programs and mathematics. Some of the classes are eligible for college credit through the Rochester Institute of Technology.
In recent years, John Jay's percentage of students going on to two and four year colleges has been in the 90s . Often students enrolled in two year programs subsequently move on to four year programs following their earning an Associate's Degree.
The school is presently adding an addition (extending from the Math to the English wings) which will add four new classrooms to the building.
http://www.wappingersschools.org/JohnJayHS/construction2/main.html

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