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Fairport High School
Fairport High School
Address
Map
1 Dave Paddock Way

Fairport
,
New York
14450

 USA
Coordinates43°4′47.12″N 77°24′54.15″W / 43.0797556°N 77.4150417°W / 43.0797556; -77.4150417
Information
School typePublic High School
MottoOnce a Raider always a Raider
Established1924 (West Avenue)
School districtFairport Central School District
PrincipalChristopher Salinas
Faculty116
Teaching staff116[1]
Grades10–12
GenderCo-Ed
Number of students2,100
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Red, White and, Blue
     
Athletics35 Varsity Sports[4]
MascotRed Raider
Team nameRed Raiders
National rankingDecrease868th[3]
NYS Regents average83%[2]
NewspaperThe Lampion
YearbookThe Hourglass
Clubs55
Websitehttp://www.fairport.org/HighSchool.cfm
School emblem
Fairport High School is located near Rochester, NY

Fairport High School (FHS) is a public high school serving the tenth through twelfth grades in Fairport, NY and is part of the Fairport Central School District. It was announced in early June that Fairport's Board of Education had approved Christopher Salinas as the new Principal for the 2009 - 2010 school year. He will replace Pamula Ciranni, who served as Interim Principal during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

Current enrollment estimates place the student population around 1,800. The Class of 2009 is the largest class to pass through FHS in approximately 15 years, totaling around 650 students. FHS takes part in numerous international exchange programs, including trips to Ireland, France, Spain, Germany and Italy.

History

In 1924 the high school was on West Avenue in the village of Fairport. Later, it was at Minerva Deland High School. July 10, 1968 marked the groundbreaking of the current Fairport High School, which opened to students on December 7, 1970.

FHS FACT 12

In 1996 FHS was given permission to broadcast educational programs on FACT 12, programs included the FHS Morning Show, Homecoming events, Concerts, Award Ceremonies, and Sporting Events.[5]

Campus/school site

Pre 1968 Campus

The original Fairport High School, in the Village of Fairport, has been converted to condominiums.

The pre-1968 Fairport High School campus was located at 71 West Avenue, only 2 blocks from Main Avenue in the village of Fairport, NY. It was built and opened in 1924 to serve as the village's first Public High School. From 1968 until the early 1980s, the old campus served as the West Avenue School, with grades 4-6. As the school district's needs changed, the old campus was sold in 1984 and developed into condominiums.[6][7]

Post 1968 Campus

Fairport High School library includes a large selection of books and computers for research

As the population of the town increased the town saw the need to build a much larger high school. The campus was relocated to 1358 Ayrault Road to accommodates a much larger campus. In 1968 land was broken for the new Fairport High School Campus.

Fields

The new campus was much larger than its predecessor which included a much larger surface area for athletic events to be held on. The athletic fields include:

In addition there is a concession/admissions stand used for HS Sporting Events.

Indoor Facilities

  • Athletics
    • Competition Swimming/Diving Pool[9]
    • 1 Gym Divided Into 4 sections
  • General
    • 3 Cafeterias
    • 1 Small Auditorium
    • 1 Large Auditorium
    • Autoshop
    • Woodshop
    • 3 Art/Crafts Rooms
    • 2 Music Rooms
    • 4 Computer Labs
    • Library
    • Staff offices

Construction Projects/Other

In the 1990s an East and West Wing was added to the school which held additional class space. In 2006 there were plans for a 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m2) field house and the installation of lights on the football field.[10] In 2007 a multi-use turf field was approved.[11]

Academics

The high school is divided into three houses (Red, White, Blue) each with its own assistant principal. Several course areas are offered to students:[12]

  • Art - Jewellery, Advertising Design, Modern, Traditional, Photography, Ceramics, Sculpture, and Fibers.[13]
  • Business - Accounting, Law, Careers/Finance, Keyboarding, E-Commerce, Business Ownership, Marketing, Co-Op, Sports/Entertainment Management and, Money Management[14]
  • English - Film, Drama, Mythology, Journalism, Speaking, Theater, Literature
  • Family and Consumer Science - Culinary Arts, Child Development
  • Foreign Language - French, German, and Spanish.
  • Health - Life skills, Red Cross Certification, etc.
  • International Baccalaureate - An advanced diploma recommended for students planning to attend competitive international universities. Fairport HS was the first High School in Monroe County to offer this program.[15]
  • Mathematics - Algebra, Pre-Calculus, Statistics, Computer Science, Calculus
  • Music - Band, Concert, Orchestra, Choir
  • Physical Education - Field Sports, Team Building, Exercise, Square Dancing
  • Science - Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Biology
  • Social Studies - United States History, Global History, Leadership Seminar, Economics, European History, Psychology, Sociology, Native Americans, Anthropology
  • Technology - Digital Video, Website Design, Pre-Engineering, Electronics
  • Special Education - Services to students with disabilities

Music

Day Jazz, Afternoon Jazz, Sophomore Band, Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Full Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Polyphonic Women's Choir, Polyphonic Mixed Choir, and Sophomore Choir are all credit-bearing ensembles. The groups usually obtain gold or gold with distinction ratings at NYSSMA festivals. Students from the three bands are also members of the Pep Band, which plays at home games, at pep rallies, and in parades. A Pit Orchestra is also selected from the top students every year to perform during the spring musical.

The Prisms Concert, which takes place every spring, is a concert featuring many of these groups, as well as students performing solos or small group pieces. This concert is unique because the groups play in different areas of the auditorium. A spotlight focuses on the group or student performing as they play one three-minute piece. When they finish, the spotlight moves to another performer.

Higher Level Courses

  • Advanced Placement courses are offered at Fairport High School to allow students planning to attend college to get a head start on courses. Advanced Placement courses that are offered include Language & Composition, English Humanities, Spanish, Statistics, AB Calculus, BC Calculus, Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics B, Physics C, U.S. History, American History: Humanities, and European History.
  • The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is offered at Fairport High School as well.
  • SUPA are courses that allow students to earn SUPA credit early. Courses include Economics, Policy Analysis, Psychology, Forensic Science, and Sociology.
  • Cisco Networking courses at Fairport High School give FHS Students the chance to possibly become certified with Cisco.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

FHS Homecoming Football Game

The Fairport High School athletic nickname is the Red Raiders. The school's colors are red, white and blue. FHS has a strong athletic tradition in many of its varsity sports such as Baseball, Basketball, Cheerleading, Football, Field Hockey, Hockey, Lacrosse, Tennis, Volleyball, Soccer, Softball, Swimming. Fairport offers 35 varsity sports as well as offerings at the Junior Varsity and Modified levels.

In 2006 and 2007, Fairport won the Class AAA basketball championship in Section 5. In both years the team played against its archrival Rush Henrietta. The cheerleading squad has won three national titles as well as numerous other sectional and regional titles. The baseball team won three consecutive Section 5 Class AAA titles in 2005, 2006 and 2007.[16]

Student Organizations/Clubs

  • Anime
  • Archery
  • Art Club
  • Authors Club
  • Auto
  • Bag o' tricks club
  • Books n' Bagels
  • Chess Team
  • Dance Team
  • Dimension
  • Downstage
  • Drama
  • Environment
  • Fairport FIRST Robotics
  • Forensics
  • Games Club
  • Gay and Straight Alliance
  • Geoff Club (in honor of Geoff Hogan)
  • Geography and Travel
  • German American Partnership Program
  • Hourglass Yearbook
  • Huddle
  • International Club
  • Interscholastic Athletics
  • Intramurals
  • Jazz Choir
  • Leo Club
  • Math Team
  • Media Club
  • Model U.N.
  • Music Theater
  • Odyssey of the Mind
  • Outside Man Club
  • Peer Mediation
  • Policy Advocates
  • Science Club
  • Skiing
  • Spanish Exchange
  • Student Council
  • The Lampion School Newspaper
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Varsity Club
  • Woodworking
  • Youth to Youth

Honor Societies

FHS FIRST Robotics team

FHS FRC 578

Fairport High School's FIRST Robotics team has been a participant in the FIRST Robotics Competition program for 11 years. When the team was founded in 1997 they were sponsored by Eastman Kodak and was known as Team 36 Kod-Red and, was the first suburban FIRST team in the Rochester, NY region. In 1999 Kodak discontinued.its sponsorship and the Gleason Works became the sponsor for the team known as Team 578 Blue Lightning. The Gleason Works is still the team's main sponsor, supporting the team financially and allowing students to travel to The Gleason Works to build their robot. In 2000 they became the FIRST Philadelphia Regional Winners and the year after they became the FIRST Nasa VCU Regional Winners. In 2004 the team became the FRC Pittsburgh Finalist.[17]

Notable alumni/faculty

Philip Seymour Hoffman won a Academy Award for Best Actor

Principals

Former FHS Principal David Paddock (left) shakes hands with Former New York Governor Spitzer
Name From To
Mr. Christopher Salinas [19] 2009 present
Mrs. Pamula Ciranni [20] 2008 2009
Mr. David Paddock [21] 1995 2008
Mr. Robert Reiter [citation needed] 1991 1995
Mr. Lyman Cook [22] 1970 [23] 1991 [24]

Major School Events

Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week

Every spring, Fairport students celebrate Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week. The week is focused around Civility, Awareness, Respect, and Embrace (CARE). The event is most prominent at FHS, where a different activity takes place each day of the week. Monday is Family Talk Day, during which a student and an adult are selected to speak to the students. Tuesday consists of a presentation during which student voices writings are read. The writings anonymously tell students' feelings about CARE. On Wednesday, a community member is asked to speak. On Wednesday of the 2007 celebration, Rachel's Challenge visited the school. The program encouraged students to improve the atmosphere of their school. The program impacted the students in a large way, partly because they had lost a beloved member of the student body the night before. Wednesday is also the annual Junior-4th Grade walk. The district's 4th and 11th graders walk the village streets together to build relationships with each other. Thursday's program is known as Unplugged, and is a non-stop musical performance available to students with free periods or lunch. Friday concludes the eventful week with Outreach Day. On this day, the entire school is bused to the three elementary schools. Students meet with their new little brothers and sisters for an hour. They play games and teach them about CARE. A song written about this week by former students Sean Lyness and David Lachance is played yearly.

2006-2007 Tragedies

Angel Hill served student memorial for months after the 2007 FHS June Tragedy
  • In August 2006, Fairport student Alexander Ciarico drowned while swimming in the Erie Canal.
  • In March 2007, Fairport student Natalie Giambattista died from cancer.[25]
  • On November 28, 2007, Pete Granger, coach of the Raiders varsity baseball team, died from cancer.[16]

Fairport Five

On June 26, 2007, five recent graduates from Fairport High School died in a traffic accident. The girls were traveling to a cottage on Keuka Lake when their SUV crashed head-on into a tractor trailer.[27] Text messaging is believed to have played a central role in the accident.[28]

The victims were Hannah Congdon, Bailey Goodman, Meredith McClure, Sara Monnat and Katie Shirley. All five girls had been members of the Fairport Varsity Cheerleading Squad, but Shirley left the squad her Freshman year. The girls had all graduated from FHS five days before the accident occurred.

Church services and a candlelight vigil were held in memory of the girls in the 24 hours following the accident. Before sunrise, approximately one hundred students gathered on a grassy hill on the west side of the campus overlooking the high school, now labeled "Angel Hill".[29] Counselors were available for the grief-stricken students throughout day. Hundreds passed through the school during the days following the tragedy, and even more came to the same hill that night for the vigil.

13 WHAM June 26 Tragedy Videos CNN June 26 Tragedy Videos

Graduation

Fairport High School Students Sing the Graduation Song at the 2007 Fairport HS Graduation

Fairport High School holds its high school graduation at the Blue Cross Arena in downtown Rochester, NY. The class of 2009 is to be the largest class.

Class Year Class Size Graduation Rate Graduation Speaker College Bound
2009 612 unknown Mr. Mark Northrup 89%
2008 606[30] unknown Mrs. Heather Jones unknown
2007 564[30] 99%[30] Mr. Michael Mallaber[31] 88%[30]
2006 535[32] Unknown Mr. John Baynes Unknown
2005 488[32] Unknown Mrs. Kim Gillett Unknown
2004 515[32] Unknown Unknown Unknown

See also

References

  1. ^ Local School Directory
  2. ^ Schools Test Average NY
  3. ^ America's Top Public High Schools
  4. ^ Fairport Athletics
  5. ^ Village History
  6. ^ http://www.perinton.org/Data/Documents/Historian/columns/Schools%20overview.pdf
  7. ^ West Ave Fairport High School
  8. ^ McDermott, Meaghan (September 4 2000), "Fairport students will see changes", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY), pp. 3B {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
  9. ^ FHS Pool Directions
  10. ^ Diaz, Fernando (February 9 2006), "Fairport at a crossroads", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY), pp. 1B, 4B {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
  11. ^ Steenburgh, Megan (June 14 2007), "WHAT'S NEW IN FAIRPORT AND PERINTON", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY), pp. 1B, 4B {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
  12. ^ FHS Academics
  13. ^ FHS Art Department
  14. ^ FHS Business Department
  15. ^ FHS IB Department
  16. ^ a b "Fairport baseball coach Granger dies at age 54". Democrat and Chronicle. 2007-11-29. Retrieved 2007-11-29. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. ^ Fairport FIRST Robotics Team Website
  18. ^ Fairport teen becoming YouTube sensation
  19. ^ Fairport Central Schools - Fairport High School
  20. ^ Fairport Central Schools - Fairport High School
  21. ^ Fairport High principal and Class of 2008 will move on together
  22. ^ Fairport Class of 1980
  23. ^ Cook Named High School Principal
  24. ^ FHS Seniors Reach 'The End'
  25. ^ "2007 Teen's death leaves "hole in ... hearts" url=http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:7z_3iXslSAwJ:ldsfiles.com/news/archives/2007_03_01_index.php+Natalie+Giambattista&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us". LDS News. 2007-03-29. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Missing pipe in: |title= (help)
  26. ^ "2007 Fairport grad found dead in Utah". Democrat and Chronicle. 2007-09-07. Retrieved 2007-09-08. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  27. ^ "Five Young Women Killed In Fiery Car Crash". cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2007-11-05.
  28. ^ "Texting May Have Played Part in Fatal Teen Car Crash". abcnews.com. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
  29. ^ 13 Wham's Celebration of Life Montage
  30. ^ a b c d District Facts
  31. ^ Fairport HS Graduation Program, Fairport High School, June 21 2007, p. 2 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help).
  32. ^ a b c Local School Directory Fairport HS
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