| Number of Schools Managed |
6 |
4 |
| Number of Students Managed |
3,472 students |
2,220 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$38,121,000 |
$24,078,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$32,436,000 |
$23,565,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$10,980 |
$10,846 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$9,342 |
$10,615 |
| District Graduation Rates |
94% |
95% |
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- Garden Spot High School is located in New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Founded in the 1950s, this is the only Senior High School in the Eastern Lancaster County School District.
- Extra-curricular activities
- Garden Spot Performing Arts
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Garden Spot High School is quite possibly most famous for its theater program, "Garden Spot Performing Arts" (GSPA). GSPA began in 1967, founded by then-High School English Teacher Stanley D. Deen. Deen lead the organization for 30 years. Credit also goes to Deen's earliest collaborators, fellow Garden Spot teachers Bill Reilly (set and lighting design), Francis A. Palumbo (costume design and make up), David Martin (set construction) and Marlin Houck (music director). Deen retired from teaching and directing at Garden Spot in 1997. To honor his legacy as both a teacher and theater director, Garden Spot's auditorium was named after him in the year 2000.
- Since its founding in 1967, GSPA has been a favorite after-school activity for literally thousands of students. Every year, scores of students work both on stage and behind the scenes to produce quality theater experiences for the community. Arguably, GSPA's most famous alumnus is Robert Hoshour, who went on to perform in several Broadway musicals, including the original cast of Andrew Lloyd Weber's long-running hit show Cats.
- KGSH
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Garden Spot High School is also known for its Television news team, called KGSH. KGSH is a morning news program that informs students and teachers of upcoming school events, weather reports, sports news, and the ever popular e-news. Originally a radio station, KGSH converted to an in-house TV station in 1991 The station is currently run by Mr. Mike Stitzer. KGSH is also a class taught in the high school. In which students learn how to use video editing software to create original or parodied graphics/openings.
- Orchestra
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The Garden Spot High School Orchestra is a symphonic orchestra directed by Jeff Hackenberger, who has appeared in numerous motion pictures. String musicians are school students selected by audition with the director; wind players are selected based on their audition performance in the Garden Spot High School Concert Band. The orchestra performs a holiday concert in December and an end-of-the-year concert in May. Musicians routinely appear in county and district orchestra festivals.
- Hackenberger has since retired, and due to the decision of ELANCO School Districts superintendent, a tandem of teachers have been assigned to take over the Orchestra department. What was once a job for one teacher, has been multiplied to be done by 5 teachers. Many parents were outraged by this, and it has led to many consequences.
- Sports
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The 2008 Football team proved to be one of the best in recent memory, making it to the District 3 Semi-Finals. The last team to make it past the first round was the 2004 squad led by then Quarterback Sean Martin. The 2008 team led by Quarterback Weston Martin, Wide Receivers Tyler Eby, Kyle Kelley and Derrek Deshaw, and the ever resilient backfield of Anderson Beamer, and Joe Strangarity. The regular season was somewhat of an oddity in which the team only went 6-4, but they peaked at the right time. In the first round of the playoffs the team looked to be out after heading into the half down 34-10 to Lebanon in Lebanon, but the Lebanon team had fought hard all day and was very tired. The Spartans were able to score 36 straight to win the game in the second half. They would put the cherry on top the next week by beating Number 2 seed, Greencastle-Antrim. The Spartans would only falter in the snow at West York.
- The 2002 Lancaster Lebanon League Section 2 Soccer team won 14-0, and are the only undefeated soccer team in the school's history.
- The 1968 soccer team was 12-1-3 winning the League Championship, the PIAA District 3 Championship and the Inter-District 1-3 Championship (over Ridley Twp. 2-1). There was no State Tournament during this era. The team was coached by Bob Weaver and captained by Terry Myer, Ed Ludwig, and Larry Overly. The other starters were Bob Kuipers, Bob Walters, Carl Sollenberger, Bob Longer, Dan Lowry, Rick Sanger, Rick Witwer and Bob Hurst.
- Alma Mater
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Hail to our school of blue and gray,
to thee we give our praise,
our honor and our loyalty,
for all our joyous days. The friendships that we've made anew,
shall never be forgot!
Hail to our Alma Mater.
Hail to Garden Spot. - School Changes
- Block Scheduling
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thumb|right|250px|Close-up image of Garden Spot Senior High SchoolGSHS has decided to shift to block scheduling for the 2008-2009 school year, and for all following years. Students are upset about this decision as they feel they were "never asked" for this large change to occur, and there was a possibility of an anti-block research committee having their results completely disregarded. The administration backs their decision saying that almost all other districts in the area have gone to this manner of scheduling.
- Renovations
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GSHS will be undergoing major renovations in 2009 and 2010 [1]. Changes will be made to the science wing, family consumer science classrooms (middle and high school), art and visual arts classrooms, cafeteria, performing arts (band, orchestra, chorus rooms), auditorium, library, stair cases, health room, and the administration and guidance offices (middle and high school.) There will also be renovations to the middle school, high school and main entrances. The side of the middle schools towards Tower Road will also be renovated along with the court yards in the high school. New bleachers and scoreboard will also be added along with a newly constructed concession stand and bathrooms.
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