Grosse Pointe North High School

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Grosse Pointe North High School
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Address
Grosse Pointe North High School
707 Vernier Road

Grosse Pointe Woods
,
Michigan
48236-1527

United States of America
Coordinates 42°26′11″N82°53′18″W / 42.436386°N 82.888350°W / 42.436386; -82.888350
Information
Other namesNorth, Grosse Pointe North, GPN, GPNHS
Type Comprehensive public high school
Opened1968;57 years ago (1968)
StatusCurrently operational
School district Grosse Pointe Public School System
NCES District ID 2625740 [1]
SuperintendentJon Dean
CEEB code 231-801 [2]
NCES School ID 262574006230 [3]
PrincipalKate Murray
Teaching staff62.08 FTE [3]
Grades9-12
Gender Co-educational
Enrollment1,007 [3]  (2023-2024)
 •  Grade 9 225 [3]
 •  Grade 10 257 [3]
 •  Grade 11 244 [3]
 •  Grade 12 274 [3]
 • Ungraded7 [3]
Student to teacher ratio16.22 [3]
Schedule type Semester
Schedule7 50-minute periods
Area342,148 square feet [4]
Campus type Suburban
Color(s) Green  and  Gold 
Song"Grosse Pointe North Alma Mater"
Athletics conference Macomb Area Conference - White division
MascotNorseman
Grosse Pointe North High School Norseman (color).png
Nickname Norsemen
Rival Grosse Pointe South High School Blue Devils
AccreditationCognia
ACT average22.5 [2]
PublicationHarbinger (art and literary magazine)
NewspaperNorth Pointe (print)
North Pointe Now (online)
YearbookValhalla
Communities served Grosse Pointe
Harper Woods
Feeder schoolsParcells Middle School
  • Students from all elementary school zones [5]

Brownell Middle School

  • Students only from Monteith elementary school zone [5]
Website www.gpschools.org/north
Last updated: March 31, 2022
Student assessments
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 Total1029.7
(Decrease2.svg −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.

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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.

Communities served and feeder patterns

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]

Athletics

Grosse Pointe North athletic field Grosse Pointe North High School football bleachers.JPG
Grosse Pointe North athletic field

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]

Extracurricular clubs

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]

The Quiz Bowl team won the Class A Michigan High School State Championship in 2010 [19] and participates in many NAQT tournaments. The team has attended the NAQT National High School Championship tournament (HSNCT). [20]

Notable alumni

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  2. 1 2 "school profile 2015" . Retrieved September 13, 2019.
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