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Grosse Pointe North High School | |
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Address | |
707 Vernier Road , 48236-1527 | |
Coordinates | 42°26′11″N82°53′18″W / 42.436386°N 82.888350°W |
Information | |
Other names | North, Grosse Pointe North, GPN, GPNHS |
Type | Comprehensive public high school |
Opened | 1968 |
Status | Currently operational |
School district | Grosse Pointe Public School System |
NCES District ID | 2625740 [1] |
Superintendent | Jon Dean |
CEEB code | 231-801 [2] |
NCES School ID | 262574006230 [3] |
Principal | Kate Murray |
Teaching staff | 68.07 FTE [3] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Gender | Co-educational |
Enrollment | 1,181 [3] (2020-2021) |
• Grade 9 | 287 [3] |
• Grade 10 | 293 [3] |
• Grade 11 | 300 [3] |
• Grade 12 | 291 [3] |
• Ungraded | 10 [3] |
Student to teacher ratio | 17.35 [3] |
Schedule type | Semester |
Schedule | 7 50-minute periods |
Area | 342,148 square feet [4] |
Campus type | Suburban |
Color(s) | Green and Gold |
Song | "Grosse Pointe North Alma Mater" |
Athletics conference | Macomb Area Conference - White division |
Mascot | Norseman |
Nickname | Norsemen |
Rival | Grosse Pointe South High School Blue Devils |
Accreditation | Cognia |
ACT average | 22.5 [2] |
Publication | Harbinger (art and literary magazine) |
Newspaper | North Pointe (print) North Pointe Now (online) |
Yearbook | Valhalla |
Communities served | Grosse Pointe Harper Woods |
Feeder schools | Parcells Middle School
Brownell Middle School
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Website | www |
Last updated: March 31, 2022 |
Student assessments | |
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2021–22 school year [6] Change vs. prior year [6] | |
M-STEP 11th grade proficiency rates (Science / Social Studies) | |
Advanced % | 20.9 / 15.4 |
Proficient % | 28.9 / 31.6 |
PR. Proficient % | 12.1 / 41.5 |
Not Proficient % | 38.1 / 11.5 |
Average test scores | |
SAT Total | 1029.7 ( −44.7) |
Grosse Pointe North High School is a public high school in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. North is a four-year comprehensive high school with an enrollment of around 1,400 and expected 2016 graduating class of 350. Classes are in session for 182 days per year and the school day is from 8:00 AM to 3:05 PM.
The principal is Kate Murray; she won the 2015 Educators Voice Award. [7] The assistant principals are Katy Vernier, Michelle Davis, and Geoffrey Harris Young. Davis is also the school's athletic director. [8]
North consistently ranks among the nation's best high schools.
The school opened in 1968 after Grosse Pointe High School was split into two schools, and Grosse Pointe North took the northern side of Grosse Pointe's students and Northeastern Harper Woods' students. It is a member of the Grosse Pointe Public School System.
The school serves the following communities: [12] all of Grosse Pointe Woods, [13] the GPPSS section of Harper Woods, [14] a small northwest section of Grosse Pointe Farms, [15] and the Wayne County section of Grosse Pointe Shores. [16]
Three elementary schools, Ferry, Mason, and Monteith, feed into GPNHS. All of the attendance boundary of Parcells Middle School and a section of the boundary of Brownell Middle School coincides with that of GPNHS. [12]
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Boys' sports include: baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, sailing, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and wrestling. Girls sports include: basketball, cheerleading, crew, cross country, dance team, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, sailing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Grosse Pointe North has won numerous state championship titles: Baseball (1980, 2006), Girls' Basketball (2008), Boys' Cross Country (1973, 1975, 1976, 1982), Boys' Hockey (2001, 2002), Girls' Lacrosse (1999), Girls' Swimming & Diving (1999), and Girls’ Soccer (2023). [17]
Grosse Pointe North's Radio Astronomy Team, the "RATz", under Ardis Herrold, are credited as being the first high school group to build its own radio telescope from scratch in the United States. [18]
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