Scarsdale High School
Scarsdale High School | |
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Location | |
United States | |
Coordinates | 40°59′41″N 73°47′35″W / 40.99472°N 73.79306°W |
Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Motto | Non Sibi (Not for One's Self) |
Established | 1917 |
School district | Scarsdale Union Free School District |
Principal | Kenneth Bonamo |
Grades | 9–12 |
Number of students | 1,530 (2018-19)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 11.66[1] |
Color(s) | Maroon White |
Athletics | Baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, crew, cross country, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling, ultimate frisbee |
Athletics conference | Section 1 (NYSPHSAA) |
Team name | Raiders |
USNWR ranking | 776[2] |
Newspaper | Maroon |
Website | scarsdaleschools |
Scarsdale High School (SHS) is a public high school in Scarsdale, New York, United States, a coterminous town and village in Westchester County, New York. It is a part of the Scarsdale Union Free School District.
The school was founded in 1917. From the graduating class of 2017, 98% continued their education with college programs, and 97% entered four-year national and international colleges and universities. Thirteen students in the class of 2017 (3%) were named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, and 27 (7%) students received National Merit Letters of commendation.[4] Between 2007 and 2009, Scarsdale High School made a transition from Advanced Placement (AP) to Advanced Topics (AT) courses.[5][6]
In the 2017–18 school year, SHS had a professional staff of 156 with a median teaching experience of 19 years. 99% of the faculty held a master's degree, 81% had 30 credits or more beyond a master's, and 4% had doctorate degrees. The student faculty ratio is 11.66 to 1,[4] and its teachers have one of the highest paying salaries in the country: 44% had a base-salary of over $100,000 in 2005.[7]
The school is 14.7% Asian, 1.4% Black, 7.8% Hispanic, 68.4% White and 5.7% other.[1]
Notable alumni
- Jacqueline Alemany (2007), journalist[8]
- Eric Alterman (1978), Nation columnist[9]
- Jacob M. Appel (1992), author and bioethics scholar[10]
- Nan Aron (1966), civil rights advocate, public interest lawyer[11][12]
- Nancy Atlas (1967), United States federal judge[11][13]
- Greg M. Behrman (1994), author; Henry Kissinger Fellow for Foreign Policy at The Aspen Institute; founder, editor and CEO of NationSwell[11][14]
- Marc Bell (1985), Tony Award winner[15]
- Dan Biederman (1971), urban management pioneer[11]
- Leslie Cannold (1983), author, commentator, ethicist, activist[11]
- Nick Civetta (2007), rugby lock/flanker
- Ed Cohen (2001), sportscaster
- Lizabeth Cohen (1969), historian, scholar[11][16]
- Lydia Cornell (as Lydia Korniloff) (1971), actress
- Laura Dave (1995), novelist
- Lisa Donovan (1998), actress
- Robert Durst (1961), murderer,[17] son of Seymour Durst and real estate heir[18]
- John S. Dyson (1961), businessman[11]
- Nicole Eisenman (1983), visual artist[11]
- Eve Ensler (1971), playwright, performer, activist[11][19]
- David Feldshuh (1961), physician, dramatist, artistic director at Cornell University[11]
- Tovah Feldshuh (1966), actress[11][20][21][22]
- Rob Fishman (2004), entrepreneur and writer
- Richard Foreman (1955), playwright, avant-garde theater pioneer[11][23]
- David Galef (1977), novelist, short story writer
- Lindsay Gottlieb (1995), USC Trojans head coach
- Gordon Gould (1938), physicist credited with inventing laser[11][24]
- Earl G. Graves Jr. (1980), basketball player[11][25]
- Ross Greenburg (1973), executive for HBO Sports[11][26]
- Peter Grosz (1992), actor[27]
- Jonathan Haidt (1981), social psychologist[11]
- Jeffrey Hoffman (1962), astronaut[11][28][29]
- Richard Holbrooke (1958), diplomat[11][30]
- Heather H. Howard (1986), health policy expert and political advisor[31]
- Yanni Hufnagel (2001), college basketball coach
- Roger Harold Hull (1960), Educator, Administrator, Lawyer [32]
- Andy Jassy (1986), CEO of Amazon[33]
- Gish Jen (1974), novelist[11][34]
- Kenneth I. Juster (1972), government official, lawyer[11][35]
- Brewster Kahle (1978), founder of the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine[11][36][37]
- Matthew Kahn (1984), environmental economics scholar[11]
- Bob Kauffman (1964), professional basketball player
- Alison Knowles (1951), artist[11]
- Zach Kornfeld (2008), YouTube personality and member of The Try Guys
- Barbara Kopple (1964), documentary film director[11][38]
- Richard Kostelanetz (1958), writer and visual artist[11]
- Glenn Kramon (1971), journalist, assistant managing editor of The New York Times[11]
- Robert Kuttner (1961), journalist, editor[11][39]
- David Lascher (1990), actor[9]
- John Leventhal (1970), musician, producer, songwriter, recording engineer[11][40]
- Mara Liasson (1973), National Public Radio correspondent[11][41]
- Cabot Lyford (1942), sculptor[42]
- Charles S. Maier (1956), professor of history at Harvard University[11]
- Michael Mark (1968), musician/composer[11]
- Linda McCartney (1960), photographer, wife of Paul McCartney[43]
- Liza Minnelli (attended 1961–62, did not graduate), singer, actor[44]
- Rick Moser (1974), NFL (Steelers) football player, actor
- Ethan Nadelmann (1975), writer and advocate on drug policy reform[11]
- Nadine Netter (1962), tennis player
- Charles Newirth (1973), film producer[11]
- Jack Newkirk (1932), naval aviator
- Judith Newman (1977), journalist and author
- Suzanne Nossel (1987), non-profit executive and human rights activist[11]
- Geoffrey Nunberg (1962), noted linguist, author, professor (U C Berkeley and Stanford) and commentator on NPR's "Fresh Air"
- Emily Nussbaum (1984), journalist
- Dan O'Brien (1992), playwright, poet, librettist, essayist[11]
- Jon Oringer (1992), entrepreneur and the founder of the popular microstock photography site Shutterstock
- Cathryn Jakobson Ramin (1975), journalist and writer
- Victoria Redel (1976), poet, fiction writer, professor at Sarah Lawrence College[11][45]
- Bryan Reynolds (1983), playwright, Shakespeare scholar[11]
- Thomas E. Ricks (1973), journalist[11][46]
- Tom Rogers (1972), media executive[11][47]
- Dan Rosensweig (1979), business executive, CEO of Chegg[48]
- Elisabeth Rosenthal (1974), physician, journalist for The New York Times[11]
- Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (1966), climatologist[11]
- Douglas Rushkoff (1979), media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian[11]
- David Rusk (1958), author and consultant on regional strategies for metropolitan areas, former mayor of Albuquerque, member of the New Mexico legislature
- Daniel Schacter (1970), psychologist[49]
- Noah Schnapp (2022), actor
- Carl Emil Schorske (1932), cultural historian[11][50]
- Christopher M. Schroeder (1982), entrepreneur[11]
- Alan Schwarz (1986), sportswriter[11]
- John E. Schwarz (1957), political scientist, distinguished senior fellow at Demos
- DJ Shiftee (2004), DJ, turntablist, born Samuel Morris Zornow[51]
- Cevin Soling (1984), filmmaker, musician, and writer
- Aaron Sorkin (1979), screenwriter[11][52]
- Andrew Ross Sorkin (1995), journalist[11]
- Fred Stahl (1962) early computer scientist, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University.
- Richard Stengel (1973), editor of Time magazine[11][53]
- Roderick Stephens (1927), sailor
- Carolyn Strauss (1981), television executive and producer[11][54]
- George Sugihara (1968), theoretical biologist[11][55]
- Ivan Sutherland (1955), Internet pioneer[11][56]
- Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (1969), judge[11][57]
- Nina Totenberg (1962), journalist, NPR legal affairs correspondent[11][58][59]
- James Traub (1972), journalist[11]
- Gary Trauner (1979), Wyoming politician[60][61][62]
- Florence Wald (1934), nurse, professor, administrator[11][63]
- John Wallach (1960), journalist, author, editor, founder of Seeds of Peace[11][64]
- Ellen Weiss (1977), radio executive[11][65]
- Bob Wilber (1945), jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, band leader[11]
- Harris Wofford (1944), United States Senator from Pennsylvania[11][66][67]
- George Zimmer (1966), entrepreneur[11]
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- ^ "Tom Rogers (SHS 1972)". Scarsdale Alumni Association. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
- ^ "Rosensweig Daniel (SHS 1979)". Scarsdale Alumni Association. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
- ^ Garcia-Amaya, Ricardo (October 27, 2013). "Daniel Schacter (SHS 1970)". Scarsdale Alumni Association. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
- ^ "Carl E. Schorske (SHS 1932)". Scarsdale Alumni Association.
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