Greenwich High School

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Greenwich High School
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Greenwich High School
10 Hillside Rd

Greenwich
,
Connecticut
06830

United States
Information
Type Public
School district Greenwich Public Schools
CEEB code 070240
HeadmasterRalph Mayo
Teaching staff203.50 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment2,746 [1]  (2019–20)
Student to teacher ratio13.49 [1]
Color(s)Red, white, black
   
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Website greenwichschools.org/ghs

Greenwich High School is a four-year public high school in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The school is part of the Greenwich Public Schools system and serves roughly 2,700 students.

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It offers over 295 courses and a wide variety of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

Greenwich is one of the twenty-one school districts in District Reference Group B. [2]

History

Greenwich's first high school classes were taught at the Havemeyer School on 290 Greenwich Avenue. The building was a gift of Henry Osborne Havemeyer, an American Industrialist, in 1892. As the building was under construction, plans for a third floor were scrapped as it would affect local businessman and banker Elias C. Benedict’s travel to New York City. He commuted by sailboat and the third floor would disrupt his sight of the flag signals that notified him when the crew was ready to sail. He paid for a gymnasium in exchange for not adding a third floor. In 2016, It was home of the Gentlemen of 25 Hillside. In 1898 the first graduation consisted of twelve graduates. [3]

In 1904, there was a town meeting to discuss moving the high school-aged students out of the Havemeyer School and to its own campus. Three years later, in 1907, the first public high school in Greenwich opened. The building was designed by Wilson Potter and it was between Mason Street and Milbank Ave. The building is currently known as the Town Hall Annex apartments. In 1919, an idea for a new gymnasium and school building was proposed. Due to increased enrollment from 299 in 1914 to 477 in 1919, the Town Meeting approved the building of another new high school in 1924. Designed by James O. Betelle, it was dedicated in 1925. The Field Point Road campus opened up in the year 1926 when Headmaster Harry Folsom led the students from the Mason Street campus singing and carrying books. In 1933, over-enrollment forced students to attend school for half-day ¨double-sessions.”. Upperclassmen would attend classes from 7:00 A.M to noon, while underclassmen would attend school from noon until 5:00 P.M. while an addition was constructed. A federal grant for $165,000 provided funding for a five-story structure with twenty-five classrooms, a gymnasium, and a library. The Field Point Road campus addition was completed in 1935. [4]

The Field Point Road campus was large enough for 25 years before it again became overcrowded. [5] [6] In 1960, the Board of Education approved a plan for two comprehensive high schools in Greenwich. This was voted down by the Representative Town Meeting (RTM), so the Board of Education instead approved one high school at Put's Hill. This project was approved for an estimated $9.8m which, at that time, was the largest single appropriation in Greenwich (the cost grew to $14.5m). [7] The old campus eventually became the current Town Hall. [8] This new campus on Put's Hill (along Hillside Road) is the current campus today. It is fifty-four acres with a student capacity of 2,750 which is expandable to 3,300. The students moved into the Hillside campus in 1970. Twenty years later, in 1990, the town added a new science wing, the Black Box Theater and additional classrooms, extended and refurbished the locker rooms, and renovated the auditorium, the swimming pool and the courtyard. The renovation added 90,000 square feet at a cost of $43,000,000. Then, a state-of-the-art Performing Arts Center opened in October 2015, replacing part of the parking lot. In 2016, the school replaced the old auditorium with new music rehearsal rooms and built a new entrance façade.

Curriculum structure

Students are required to complete four credits or years of English/Language Arts and Mathematics courses, three credits each of Science, and Social Studies, two credits of Foreign Language, one credit of art or business, one credit of physical education and wellness, one credit of STEM elective, two credits of electives (a total of 22 credits). [9] In the school course guide, additional requirements include the following:

Students' grade point averages are calculated on a weighted scale. The maximum mark a student can receive in non-honors classes is a 4.33 (A+); in Advanced Placement or Honors level courses students can receive up to a 5.33 (A+). [9]

All students at GHS are issued a Chromebook computer. [10]

Athletics

Greenwich High School students have opportunities to participate in a variety of sports in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference (FCIAC). Both boys and girls teams compete in the FCIAC in the following sports (although some sports such as football are not played by any girls' teams while softball is not played by any boys' teams): football, soccer, basketball, cheerleading, ice hockey, field hockey, track and field, cross country, swimming, water polo, rugby, golf, bowling, baseball, softball, volleyball, wrestling, gymnastics, and lacrosse. [11]

Notable alumni

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