- New Hope-Solebury High School is a high school located at 182 West Bridge Street in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The school's mascot is the Lion, and its colors are blue and gold. It is located in the New Hope-Solebury School District. The school houses grades 9 through 12. The school has approximately 475 students. The current principal is Stephen B. Young Ed. D.
- History
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New Hope-Solebury High School or NHS first started as a one building education system in the late 1800s. The schools would house roughly 20 students form grades k-12 and educate them on academic subjects from math and science to agriculture and farming. However as the township of Solebury grew, the need for a larger school was evident. Thus the building of the New Hope-Solebury School system began. Currently the district has 4 school building and hundred of acres of land.
- Notable graduates include Alternative Rock band, Ween [1] a Rock/Pop songstress Lindsay Rush.
- Courses Offered
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New Hope-Solebury High School, although small, offers a wide variety of courses for its students to choose form. Each Department is filled with highly qualified educators form a wide variety of known colleges and universities. The departments that are in the high school are, mathematics, science, social studies/history, foreign language, English, fine arts, Business Education, Gifted, Health and Physical Education, information technology, and practical arts and technology. The courses offered at NHS are:
- Business Education - Accounting with technology, career exploration with computer applications, small business management, Microsoft office certification, money management and investing, sports and entertainment marketing.
- English - Academic English 9, Academic English 9 plus, Academic English 10,Academic English 10 plus, Academic English 11, Academic English 12, Acting 1, Acting 2, AP English Language and Composition, AP Literature and Composition, creative writing, dramatic writing, honors English 9, honors English 10, honors English 11, journalism 1, journalism 2, journalism 3, reading 9, reading 10, and theater arts study.
- Fine Arts - AP Art prep 1, AP Arte prep 2, AP art, art 1, art 2, AP music theory, band, ceramics 1, ceramics 2, chamber choir, concert choir music theory, string orchestra, and yearbook design.
- Gifted Support - Gifted seminar, honors philosophy, and reading for quarters.
- Health and Physical Education - Fitness for life, health 1, health 2, and physical education.
- Independent Study - independent study.
- Information Technology - AP Computer Science A, basic, multimedia communications, video editing and film production, visual basic, web design 1, ad web design 2.
- Mathematics - Academic algebra 1a, academic algebra 1b, academic algebra 2, academic calculus, academic geometry, academic precalculus, academic statistics, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, honors algebra 2, honors calculus, honors geometry, honors precalculus, and survey of mathematics.
- Practical Arts and Technology - advanced digital photography and photo shop, advanced photography, architectural drafting and design, culinary arts 1, culinary arts 2, design with materials, developmental psychology of children, digital photography and photo shop, fashion and fabrics, graphic arts, graphic communication 9, photography, production engineering, production printing, the real world, woodworking technology, and woodworking technology 9.
- Science - academic biology, academic chemistry, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, chemcom : chemistry in the community, conceptual physics, environmental science, physics (weighted honors), and practical biology.
- Social Studies - AP European History, AP US History, contemporary issues, economics, European history, introduction to psychology, introduction to sociology, law and justice 1, law and justice 2, political science, practical economics, survey or comparative religions, US history 2, US history 3, and world cultures.
- World Language - French 1-5 (4 and 5 are honors) and Spanish 1-5 (4 and 5 are weighted honors)
- Students may also take courses at Middle Bucks Institute of Technology, offering them more technological pathways for universities or the real world. Also a senior program allows students to lean either anatomy or engineering at MBIT under the direction of a Penn State University professor, and earn PSU credits (both are weighed honors).
- Advanced Placements at NHS
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AP English Language and Composition, AP English Literature and Composition, AP Art Prep 1, AP Art Prep 2, AP Computer Science A, AP Statistics, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Biology,AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP European History, and AP United States History.
- Performing Arts
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New Hope-Solebury High school has an amazing performing arts program that allows students to sing, dance, act, and express themselves in a variety of ways. The Stephen J Buck auditorium houses roughly 500 people and is used for the Mask & Zany theater production, one act festival, comedy nights, movies nights, band, choir, orchestra, assembly, class meetings, cabaret nights, and for the male beauty pageant, the lion king.
- Mask & Zany Theatre Club, the major performing arts club in the district, performs roughly 5 times a year. They produce a variety of classic plays such as Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing to modern musicals like Suessical and Once On This Island. The Company's great success is determined by their fans that come out and support the program every year. The shows are run by students and made possible by the help of students, the faculty adviser, and other talented persons of the community.
- The New Hope-Solebury Wind ensemble is a group of talented musicians who play a wide variety of venues all over the world. This group of talented young performers play a concert at least twice a year, one in December and another in May. Also the band travels to many places to perform against other bands regionally, national, and internationally. The band has participated in competition in Disney World, Toronto, Chicago, and many other places in the world. Along with the wind ensemble comes the jazz band. the jazz band is a group of self determined musicians who wish to broaden their musical capabilities to play tunes form Basie to Duke Ellington. They participate in the cavalcade of bands which allows the ensemble to perform at other schools in the state for ratings of either poor, good, very good, outstanding, or superior.
- The choir is made up of 9-12 graders who wish to express their art in singing. This large group of 100 students or roughly 1/4 of the high school performs and competes nationally and internationally also. The chamber choir is open to all students who wish to sing, but the best signers are selected to sing in the chamber choir. a group of roughly 20 students participate and sing in their ensemble and participate in competitions to better themselves. This group of extremely talented students must audition and be selected form the director and other leaders of music in the school, and is an honor to be accepted into.
- The orchestra is a wonderful ensemble that plays classical music to modern Broadway songs to please and entertain the community. Also competitors on the national and international stage,. Although not much can be said about this wonderful ensemble and their director, one thing can, the new hope solebury orchestra dominates at competitions. Receiving the award or excellent at their competitions, one student even got the best soloist award at the festival Disney competition out of 15 schools nation wide.
- Clubs and Extracurricular
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Choirs, chamber choir, band, jazz band, orchestra, debate, peer leadership, amnesty international, environmental club, Japan club, outdoors club, FBLA, reading Olympics, science Olympiads, mathletes, games and chess club, ski. snowboarding club, the lions tail, student council, mask and zany, film club, envirothon, and SADD.
- New Hope-Solebury High school is a part of the PIAA (Pennsylvania interscholastic athletic association) and part of the bicentennial athletic league. NHS competes in cross country, golf, girls tennis, field hockey, volleyball, boys soccer, basketball, wrestling, cheerleading, baseball, football, softball, girls soccer, lacrosse, boys tennis and track.
- New Hope has a great reputation with sports. The girls soccer team has gone to the PIAA state quarterfinal. Boys soccer made it to the PIAA State Finals but unfortunately lost making them the 2008 state runner up, the track team went to districts along with the cross country team, volleyball, and the boys baseball made it the PIAA state final tournament.
- External links
- Official site
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