Holyoke High School
Holyoke High School | |
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Address | |
500 Beech Street Holyoke, Massachusetts 01040 USA | |
Coordinates | 42°12′00″N 72°37′27″W / 42.20000°N 72.62417°WCoordinates: 42°12′00″N 72°37′27″W / 42.20000°N 72.62417°W |
Information | |
Type |
Public Open enrollment[1] |
Established | 1852[2] |
School district | Holyoke Public Schools |
Principal | Dana Brown |
Receiver | Steven Zrike |
Faculty | 102 |
Number of students | 1,300 |
Color(s) | Purple & White |
Mascot | Knights |
Average SAT scores |
520 verbal 507 math 1027 total (2016-2017)[3] |
Website |
www |
Holyoke High School, north campus |
Holyoke High School is a public high school in western Massachusetts, that serves the City of Holyoke. Since 2015, the school, along with the district, has been in state receivership and through a series of changes in practices, such as innovative restorative justice disciplinary programs, has seen marked improvement in student retention and graduation rates.[4] In the 2016-2017 school year Holyoke High and Dean Technical High School, which have since merged, received higher combined SAT scores than the average for schools in Boston, Worcester, and Springfield.[3]
Overview
Holyoke High School is located in Holyoke just off of Interstate 391. Currently, there are approximately 1300 students enrolled in the school in both divisions. The school colors are purple and white. The school song is "Hail, Holyoke", which was written by the high school's first band director Fred Grady in 1937 and dedicated to Dr. Howard Conant, a longtime principal who served the school for 35 years.[5][6]
Following two years of development, beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, the high school offers a redeveloped curriculum focused on four academies that upperclassmen will choose to participate in, these include academies in:
- Community and Global Studies
- Technology, Engineering and Design
- Performing and Media Arts
- Medical and Life Sciences
Academy coursework will build upon the general education curriculum of math, science, and language studies with additional unique course offerings as well as internships and job shadowing opportunities in the field of a student’s choice.[7]
Juniors and seniors may also complete coursework at area colleges through the Dual College Enrollment program, including but not limited to Holyoke Community College, Springfield Technical Community College, Westfield State University, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[8]
History
Established in 1852 by the city, the school's first principal was Stephen Holman, a polymath engineer, lawyer, linguist, and educator who went on to found the Holyoke Machine Company and Deane Steam Pump Works, purchased the Holyoke Paper Company, and was credited as the first to introduce modern cost accounting into the paper industry.[2][9][10]
Between 1872 to 1881, Holyoke High School was one of about a dozen New England schools which received students from the Chinese Educational Mission.[11] Upon returning overseas some of these students would go on to serve important roles in Qing dynasty China including, but not limited to, Shung Kih Ting,[lower-alpha 1] class of 1880, who would eventually serve as acting deputy commissioner of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service,[12] and Chow Wan Tang[lower-alpha 1] who graduated in 1881 and revisited to Holyoke in 1908 as general manager of the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration.[13]
Athletics
The Holyoke High School has sports open to students for every season.[14]
Spring Sports
- Baseball - Boys Freshman / Boys Junior Varsity / Boys Varsity
- Softball - Girls Freshman / Girls Junior Varsity / Girls Varsity
- Tennis - Boys and Girls
- Track - Boys and Girls
- Volleyball - Boys Junior Varsity / Boys Varsity
Falls Sports
- Cheerleading - Girls Junior Varsity / Girls Varsity
- Cross Country - Boys and Girls Varsity
- Field Hockey - Junior Varsity / Varsity
- Football - Boys Freshman / Boys Junior Varsity / Boys Varsity
- Golf - Boys and Girls Varsity
- Soccer - Boys and Girls Junior Varsity / Boys and Girls Varsity
- Volleyball - Girls Freshman / Girls Junior Varsity / Girls Varsity
Winter Sports
- Basketball - Boys and Girls Freshman / Boys and Girls Junior Varsity / and Girls Boys Varsity
- Cheerleading - Girls Junior Varsity / Girls Varsity
- Ice Hockey - Boys and Girls Varsity
- Indoor Track - Boys and Girls Varsity
- Skiing - Boys and Girls Varsity
- Swimming - Boys and Girls Varsity
- Wrestling - Boys Varsity
Achievements
Cross Country
In 2016, the Boys Cross Country team, coached by Dave Reinhart, won the Western Massachusetts XC Championships led by runner Cameron Correia.[15] The team has also gone to the state championships 3 consecutive times since 2013.[16]
Basketball
In 2012, the Girls Varsity Basketball team achieved the title of Western Mass Champions.
Clubs and activities
- Anime Club
- Poetry Society
- Book Club
- GEAR-UP
- Art Club
- The Herald (school newspaper)
- Band (Concert, Jazz, & Marching)
- Bilingual Club
- National Honor Society
- Business and Educational Technology Club
- Operation Close-Up
- Choir (Bell, Concert, & Madrigal)
- SCORE Peer Mediators
- Color Guard
- Spanish Club
- Connections
- Student Council/Government
- Debate Team
- Upward Bound
- Drama Club
- French Club
- Yearbook
- Photography Club
- Gay & Straight Alliance
- Musical
- As Schools Match Wits
Media
There is currently one school newspaper at Holyoke High School, The Holyoke Herald, which is produced by its students in the school's journalism classes. Students also air a weekly program on the local Public-access television cable TV channel titled HPS 12. Published once a year is the literary and creative arts magazine, "The Knight Writer." In addition to these publications is the yearbook which also publishes a blog on its website.
Notable alumni
- William Chadwick (1879 – 1962), class of 1898, late 19th and early 20th-century American impressionist painter who went on to study at the Art Students League of New York, and subsequently became a resident of the Old Lyme art colony[17]
- Montgomery Knight (1901 – 1943), class of 1918, pioneer in rotorcraft design, first director of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founder of and long-time researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.[18][19]
- Homer E. Newell Jr. (1915 – 1983), class of 1932, mathematician and NASA administrator, the principal organizer of the American space program in its early years, who managed virtually all non-military unmanned space missions for the free world from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1974.[20]
Notes
References
- ↑ "School Choice Receiving District Status" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2017-07-29. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
- 1 2 Harper, Wyatt E. (1973). The Story of Holyoke. Centennial Committee of the City of Holyoke. pp. 94–95. OCLC 8060402.
- 1 2 2016-17 SAT Performance Statewide Report
- ↑ Plaisance, Mike. "During 2nd year of state receivership, 'Notable improvement' cited in Holyoke's graduation, drop out rates". The Republican. Springfield, Mass.
- ↑ "High School Players to Give Symphony". Springfield Republican. Springfield, Mass. May 14, 1937. p. 10.
- ↑ Sears, Jacqueline (2015). Legendary Locals of Holyoke. Arcadia Publishing.
- ↑ Plaisance, Mike (June 10, 2018). "400 students participate in 1st academy signing day as Holyoke redesigns high school". The Republican. Springfield, Mass. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018.
- ↑ Rigali, Anna. "Dual College Enrollment". Holyoke Public Schools.
- ↑ "Death of Stephen Holman". The Protectionist. XXIV (7): 426. November 1912.
- ↑ "Stephen Holman, F. Am. Soc. C. E." Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 76: 2262.
- ↑ "Chinese Educational Mission at MIT". China Comes to MIT. MIT Libraries. 2017. Archived from the original on June 14, 2018.
- ↑ "Shung Kih Ting". Class of 1884, Harvard College; Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report of the Secretary. VII. June 1909.
Immediately on arrival at Springfield, Massachusetts, he and his chum, Wong Liang Tun, went to Holyoke, Massachusetts under the charge of Mrs. H. S. Dickerman. Under the careful direction and instruction of that most worthy lady he was able, in the autumn of 1876, to enter the Holyoke High School, where he completed the four years' course without missing a school day, and graduated third in his class...In January, 1908, he received his present appointment (acting assistant statistical secretary), acting deputy commissioner of customs...
- ↑ "Of High Degree; Distinguished Chinese Here, Chow Wan Tang Visits Holyoke After 27 Years Absence". Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. Holyoke, Mass. July 14, 1908.
Two of China's most brilliant and distinguished officials are spending this week in Holyoke as guests in the Kagwin home in Elmwood. They are Chow Wang Tang who is general manager of the Chinese Telephone and Telegraph company and Mr Yun also an official of the same...Mr Wan Tang graduated from the Holyoke high school and left Holyoke 27 years ago...They are now on their way home and leave Holyoke Friday morninf [sic] for San Francisco whence they will sail for China
- ↑ "Holyoke High School Athletics". Holyoke Public Schools. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
- ↑ Mark Chiarelli (January 31, 2017). "Holyoke senior Cameron Correia named Western Mass. Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year". Mass Live. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
- ↑ Marty Keane (November 23, 2015). "More Than Just A Spotlight: Coach Dave Reinhart". Holyoke High Herald. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
- ↑ Edwards, Lee M. (1986). Domestic Bliss: Family Life in American Painting, 1840-1910. The Hudson River Museum. p. 132.
- ↑ Daniel P. Schrage; Robert Scott. "History of Rotorcraft Education and Research at Georgia Tech" (PDF). Georgia Institute of Technology.
- ↑ Barnes Warnock McCormick; Conrad F. Newberry; Eric Jumper (2004). Aerospace Engineering Education During The First Century of Flight. AIAA. pp. 271–283. ISBN 1563477106.
- ↑ Newell, Homer E. Jr. Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science (NASA SP-4211), NASA, Washington, DC, 1980
External Links
- Holyoke High School, official school website
- The Herald, the student-run school newspaper, est. 1898
- Holyoke High School Report Card, Massachusetts Dept. of Education
(in Spanish) (in French)