Pittsford Mendon High School
| Pittsford Mendon High School | |
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| Address | |
| 472 Mendon Road Pittsford, NY, 14534 USA |
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| Coordinates | 43°03′36″N 77°31′08″W / 43.059983°N 77.518845°WCoordinates: 43°03′36″N 77°31′08″W / 43.059983°N 77.518845°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1972 |
| School district | Pittsford Central School District |
| Principal | Karl Thielking |
| Vice principal | Joshua Walker Joseph Fantigrossi |
| Faculty | 75.0 (on FTE basis)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 969 (as of 2005-06)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.9[1] |
| Color(s) | Maroon and Gold |
| Team name | Vikings |
| Rival | Pittsford Sutherland High School |
| Website | School website |
Pittsford Mendon High School is a public high school in suburban Rochester, Monroe County, upstate New York. It is one of two high schools in the Pittsford Central School District, the other being Pittsford Sutherland High School. Pittsford Mendon is located at 472 Mendon Road (from which the school gets its name) in the town of Pittsford, near the town of Mendon, New York.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,045 students and 75 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 13.2.[1]
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[edit] Awards and recognition
Pittsford Mendon was ranked 69th in the country (a Gold Medal School) by U.S. News & World Report in its 2010 high school rankings.[2] Its ranking was 91st the previous year.
In 2007, the school was ranked 94th nationwide in Newsweek's Top 1,300 High School's in the United States. Rankings are calculated using "a ratio that takes the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate, and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2006 divided by the number of graduating seniors." [3]
The school was ranked in 58th place nationwide in Newsweek's May 8, 2006 issue, listing the Top 1,200 High Schools in The United States.[4] Pittsford Mendon High School was ranked as Number 39 in the United States in Newsweek's 2005 survey.[5]
[edit] Demographics
- White 88%
- Asian 7%
- Black 3%
- Hispanic 1%
[edit] Academics
Mendon offers a variety of courses, with numerous Advanced Placement (AP) courses in Science, English, Social Studies, Math, Art, Foreign Language, and Music.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Kaitlin Monte, actress, Miss New York 2011 [7]
- Tyson Beckford, supermodel, actor.[8]
- Nicole Fiscella, actress, noted for her role as Isabel Coates on Gossip Girl
- Stephen Gilfus, Co-Founder of DC-based educational software developer Blackboard Inc.; Chairman of Upside Over Inc.
- Peter Kluge, Actor, Producer of 2009 film Near Fall [9]
- James Satloff, Investment bank CEO,[10] Internet company CEO,[11] Ski Company CEO[12][13]
- Joy Tanner, actress, noted for her role as Nora MacDonald on Disney's Life with Derek
- Cynthia Satloff Kolko, Novelist, author of Fruit of the Vine[14]
[edit] Feeder patterns
Park Road Elementary School, Thornell Road Elementary School, and the southern part of Mendon Center Elementary School feed into Barker Road Middle School, then to Pittsford Mendon High School.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Pittsford Mendon High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed March 1, 2008.
- ^ "Best High Schools in 2010, U.S. News and World Report, December 9, 2009
- ^ "The Top of the Class 2008", Newsweek, May 17, 2008
- ^ The Complete List: 1,200 Top U.S. Schools, Newsweek May 8, 2006
- ^ "America's Best High Schools", Newsweek, August 5, 2005
- ^ [1]
- ^ Miss New York Crown Goes To Kaitlin Monte, "SI Live"
- ^ Where Am I Now?, Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester), accessed March 22, 2007
- ^ IMDB, IMDB, accessed August 8, 2007
- ^ Unterberg, Towbin website, accessed August 8, 2007
- ^ New York Times BITS Technology Blog, New York Times, July 4, 2007
- ^ Freeskier Magazine, Freeskier Magazine, December 6, 2005
- ^ Where Am I Now?, Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester), accessed May 6, 2007
- ^ Fruit of The Vine (Novel) website, accessed February 18, 2012
