Penfield High School is a public high school located in Penfield, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York. It offers a comprehensive curriculum for students in grades 9-12. The principal is Dr. Leslie Maloney.
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Academics
In addition to the traditional core subjects, students can choose from various Advanced Placement offers for college credits, such as AP English and Composition, and American Studies, which combine AP US History with an eleventh grade English class, even AP Music Theory. Also offered are US History and Government, American Government, biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, English, French, Spanish, mathematics, and statistics. Penfield offers many options in art, music, engineering, and business. Department of foreign languages ​​including Spanish, French, German and Latin. The experience of vocational and alternative education is also available to students.
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History
Penfield Seminary
Its predecessor Penfield High School is Penfield Seminary, built in 1857 at 1836 Penfield Road, near Five Mile Line Road, in the 'Four Corners' area of ​​Penfield. Schools charge entrance and are built to accommodate 150 students. It operated as a private academy until 1871. In 1874, Penfield Union Free School District No. 1 bought the building for $ 2,500 (USD), and the structure was used as a public school until 1907, when it was sold to a local fire brigade.. The building is still used by the Penfield Fire Company, and is seen behind modern firefighters at Four Corners. High school graduation was mentioned in local newspapers in 1900. Class 1902 consists of three graduates.
SMA 1907
A new high school building was built in 1907 at 2070 Five Mile Line Road, just north of the Four Corners. A high school alumni group was held in 1912. In autumn 1913, high school opened for this year with six faculties: principal George Cooper; preceptress Mable Thomas; teacher Edna Payne (sixth and seventh grade); Cora Drummon (fourth and fifth grade); Helen Thomas (second and third grade) and Julia McNab (primary). The 1919 class consists of only one graduate, Luella Engelhart.
1932 enlarged secondary schools
A large expansion of high school was dedicated on February 5, 1932. The new construction largely replaced the old building, which remained as a small wing on the north side of the building. The new building is faced with a brick, colonial design, three levels, with eight classrooms, and a combined gymnasium and a 500 seat auditorium. Overall the combined classroom and secondary school comprises about 40,000 square feet. The addition is built for $ 200,000 (USD) and is designed for a capacity of 450 students. At the time of dedication, the total attendance was 265 students, 67 of whom were in high school. In September 1934, Penfield High School had five "graduate graduates", four seniors, eleven junior, thirty seven second year, and forty-three freshmen.
Population growth
Penfield City, New York was created in 1840, when he departed from Webster City, New York. The city population is mainly rural, and about 3,000 from the 1840s to the 1930s. In 1930, the Penfield census population was 3,306, and in 1940 it rose to 3,774. Penfield's growth as a suburb of Rochester, New York took off after 1950 when the population more than doubled in the next decade (4,851 in 1950 to 12,601 in 1960), doubled again in the next decade (23,732 in 1970) and continues to increase in subsequent years (30,654 at the 2000 census).
24 students graduated from Penfield High School in 1945. Class 1946 consists of 23 graduates. 21 students graduated in 1950. Class 1951 has 27 members.
In 1948, the number of kindergarten students entering Monroe County was twice that of the previous four years, and is expected to double again in 1952.
school consolidation 1948
In 1947, schoolchildren in Penfield City were served by eleven "public" school districts, each of which, at one time, had a small grammar school building (often a schoolroom), and the Penfield Union Free School. District, which operates a high school on Five Mile Line Road. The State of New York adopted a master plan that year to consolidate small school districts to central schools.
The movement to consolidate the school district at Penfield began in late 1947, when several petitioned the State Department of Education to create a central district.
The Penfield Central School District was created in 1948 by combining five general school districts in Penfield City (District 2, 3. 5. 7 and 8), the Wayne County public school district (Macedon-Walworth Common School District) # 12) and District Penfield Union Free School (District 1). District voters strongly approved the reorganization on 24 June 1948, with a vote of 407 to 55. The new school district contains between 450 and 500 students, who will attend a grammatical and secondary school mix on Five Billion Roads and a "little" Red House on Atlantic Avenue and Creek Street in Penfield.
Four public school districts at Penfield's north end are combined with the school district in Webster and two districts covering parts of the City of Ontario and Walworth in Wayne County to create the Central School District of Webster.
1949 SMA expansion
Due to the rapidly increasing population and school consolidation, a further expansion of the high school building on the Five Mile Line Drive was approved in 1949. Five and a half acres of land were acquired behind existing buildings. The expansion adds a gymnasium, expanded facilities, and a new 14-room primary school in the back of the building. The cost of expansion is $ 565,000 (USD). The school building fee is designed for 800 students. The old gymnasium is transformed into an auditorium and new additions include a double gym.
The school issued opened in 1951, but a year later the district was planning to move the first four classes of elementary school students out to allow more high school students. District voters approved a new 20-room school building in December 1953
Annexation of Indian Landing School District
Penfield High School's future growth accelerated rapidly in 1954 with the annexation of the Indian Landing School District (Brighton District # 7) to the Penfield Central School District. The city of Brighton is located just south of Rochester City and, though smaller than Penfield, experienced suburban growth earlier than Penfield (while Penfield population in 1940 was 3,774, Brighton's population was 13,132). The Indian Landing School is located at the east end of town, east of East Avenue. The district operates its own grammar school on Landing Road for grades 1 to 8, and graduates go to Brighton High School or Monroe High School in the city of Rochester, with the school district paying tuition. Before World War II, Indian Landing schools were small enough, graduating, for example, only nine students from eighth grade in 1936, increased to 27 graduates in 1941 In 1941, the Landing School District Indians chose to build a new building, at a cost of $ 190,000. Construction was delayed by war (but authorization for the new school, in 16 classrooms and the anticipated cost of $ 470,000 was awarded by the New York State Department of Education in 1946. The new elementary school, still standing, opened in 702 Landing North Road, at 1949. Nine classrooms were added two years later, but in 1953 the building was packed again. Meanwhile, Brighton High School, first opened in 1931, with the opening of its current building in 1940, reached capacity.
In 1954, officials at Brighton School District # 1, which operates Brighton High, told Indian Landing officials that their high school has reached capacity and can not guarantee that high school will receive new Indian Landing students after 1955. Indian Landing District has only two alternatives: building their own small high school, which should be expensive, or annexed by Penfield Central, located in the east. The merger would significantly increase the student population from enlarged school districts, as the Indian Landing population population (over 800 in 1953) was almost as large as the entire Penfield Central population. The Indian Landing District voted annexation in April 1954, and Penfield voters approved the merger three months later.
After the incorporation of Indian Landing students who have attended Brighton High School school can proceed there, but new graduates from grammar school will attend Penfield High. Penfield school officials support the merger because it will increase the high school population to a size that allows higher secondary school programs and a more varied curriculum. The addition of the Brighton area also greatly increased the tax base of the temporary district, since the assessed valuation of real estate in the Indian Landing School District was $ 10.5 million (USD), almost double the pre-reserve Penfield Central District ($ 5.6 million)
Annexation greatly accelerates plans for the new Penfield High School building. Even before the merger, Penfield planned to build a new primary school behind the Five Mile Line Grammar and High School building, at a site that would become a new secondary school a few years later. With the addition of Indian Landing students, two new Penfield primary schools were quickly planned. Schools that will be on the secondary school site in the future are built further on Baird Road, and the same school is built on Atlantic Avenue; while a new high school building is anticipated to be built in 1957. In 1955, plans for a new secondary school for 750 students, with the existing Five Mile Line building being converted into Junior High Schools are being proposed. These plans are being proposed while the Five Mile Line building is still the only primary school in the district, in addition to Indian Landing, and the high school graduation class in 1955 is still only 25 students.
In the fall of 1955, in the race against time, 585 junior and senior high school students in the Five Mile Line building had to go to a split session, with grades 9 through 12 attending from 8 am to 12:15 pm, and grades 7 and 8 attending 12:15 pm to 4:37 pm. The double schedule continues until the Atlantic Avenue school finishes at the end of the school year and elementary school students can be moved from the Five Mile Line Road building. Atlantic Avenue Elementary School was partially opened on 20 February 1956, allowing 360 students from Class 2 through 5 to move from overcrowded school buildings on Five Mile Line Road. Split sessions in high school and junior high school ended a week later.
Teacher salaries in the 1950s
In the school year 1956-57, the initial salary for teachers at Penfield Central School District increased to $ 3,700 per year, which is the second highest in Monroe County (Brighton School District # 1, which operates Brighton High School, paying $ 50 more) and $ 400 higher than the initial salary for teachers in the Rochester City School District.
1958 new high school building
On January 31, 1956, Penfield voters approved the purchase of 25 acres of land between existing high schools and new primary schools built on Baird Road, thus connecting two packages. The newly acquired land is for new high school buildings, and increases the District District campus from Jalan Lima Lintang to Baird Road to 61 hectares. The district also acquires a 100-foot piece of land from Jalan Lima Lintang to a newly acquired property, which is a high school access road.
The District proposes to the public that they build a new secondary school with 31 classrooms for 950 students, at a cost of $ 2.6 million (USD), and, separately, propose a pool for the new school at a cost of $ 150,000. However, Penfield voters defeated both proposals on 10 April 1956. The majority had voted for proposals (1,089 agreed, 813 opposed), but two-thirds majority were required to pass this bond issue, as the district had exceeded the legal debt limit with two primary schools built.
The district sent back a secondary school proposal for a second vote, with no pool option, but the voters again failed to agree with the two-thirds needed May 21, 1956. The second vote was 1,736 in favor, 898 against, and, for some unknown reason, 133 wrong votes cast and canceled.
The proposal was filed to voters for the third time in less than three months, on June 21, 1956. School officials warned that even if approved the new building would not be completed by the beginning of the school year 1958-59, and high school should return at separate sessions. The secondary school construction project was finally approved in a third vote, with 2,615 votes in favor, 1,071 opposed, and 22 blank votes.
The newly built middle school building cost $ 13.70 per square foot, which was $ 5.03 lower than the average new school construction cost in New York State at the time. The architect for the project is C. Storrs Barrows & amp; Associates, who has served as architect for the district since 1931.
Two-story academic wings include the following: 1) three-room economy house suite, which includes four kitchens, sewing centers and laundry; 2) visual audio playback and workspace; 3) a library that holds 8,000 books; 4) business education areas with secretarial practices and typing spaces; 5) a double-sized art room, with a kiln; 6) space chemistry, physics, biology, and general science, each with a separate laboratory from the classroom; 7) four math classes; 8) four classrooms of civic education; 9) six English classrooms. & Lt; fef name = bargain/& gt;
The new building also includes: 1) canteen with seating for 500; 2) wood and metal shop classrooms, with a metal shop designed with garage entrance to accommodate auto store education; 3) a 1,000 seat auditorium, with a 68-foot wide and 28-meter stage; 3) a 110 feet x 90 foot double size gymnasium, with motor driven partition, allowing it to be separated into two parts, and bleach seats for 1,500 spectators, plus lockers and showers and 5) offices for administrators, guidance counselors and school nurses.
A year after the primary school proposal was finally approved, voters agreed on June 11, 1957 to add a swimming pool, at a cost of $ 250,000, to a high school construction project.
The new high school building opened in 1958. The old old school building on the Five Mile Line Drive was converted into a Junior High School, 6th to 8th grade housing. School officials wanted to move sixth grade from junior high, but three Indian Landing, Atlantic Avenue , and Baird Road) is in full capacity. The district proposed the construction of a fourth primary school in the Panorama Plaza area, on the west side of Panorama Trail Road about five hundred meters from Penfield Road, at a cost of $ 1,450,000 (USD). The proposed school will be built on a 26-acre parcel and will have capacity for 800 students. The anticipated cost was reduced to $ 1290,000 before voting on the issue of bonds, but voters rejected the proposal with a 726 against, 500 vote. Officials concluded that the proposed location, near an active commercial area, caused defeat, so the school district revised the plan, proposing the school to be located on Gebhardt Road, just south of Mile Mile's entrance to the middle school, to be built. for $ 1,235,000, and opened by the academic year 1961-62. This proposal passed, with a vote of 1014-788. The school, known as Cobbles Elementary School, is located at 140 Gebhardt Road, Penfield, and currently has 500 enrollment students, ranging from kindergarten to fifth grade.
New and proposed new secondary schools
The school district acquired a 47-hectare site on the northeast corner of Atlantic Avenue and Scribner Road, costing $ 125,000, and began construction of its fifth primary school there in 1963. The new school of Scribner Road has a capacity for 600 students and costs $ 1,065,000 (USD). The plan is to increase the junior high school and, finally, the second high school on the parcel. The new junior high school, Bay Trail, was built on site for $ 2,975,000 (USD), with capacity for 700 junior high students just opened September 1966 with 786 students, high school ninth grade students being transferred to two junior high schools.
With the opening of the new Bay Trail Secondary School, the junior high school (former high school building on Five Mile Line Drive, now renamed Denonville Secondary School) was renovated, costing $ 1,721,000 (USD). The oldest wing of the building, the original building of 1907, was destroyed and replaced with new construction, while the wings of 1932 and 1952 were repaired. The Denonville High School building (later Denonville Middle School) was closed in 1980 due to a decrease in registration. The Charles Finney School, a private Christian secondary school, purchased the former Denonville building in 1991.
In 2000, enrollments at Penfield Central School District, including those from east Brighton, totaled 5,076, and an additional 1,546 students living on the northern tip of Penfield City were registered with the Webster Central School District (Webster's total year registration was 8,281).
Explosive growth
With rapid suburban growth and the addition of the Indian Landing school district, the graduation grade size of Penfield High School, unchanged in the decade before 1955, grew tenfold in the next ten years. From grade 25 students in 1955, the number of graduates doubled to 48 in 1958, doubling again in a year to 91 in 1959, increasing to 146 in 1961, 160 a year later, 186 in 1963, 259 in 1964, and to 280 in 1966.
Student protest
The first protest recorded by high school students in Penfield was a cafeteria boycott in 1959. On January 14, only about 13 out of 600 high school students bought lunch in the cafeteria; the rest bring food from home. The students complained that the portions were too small and had no variation. Wallace J. Howell, headmaster of high school, met with student leaders that afternoon, and settled the dispute. With a tongue somewhat on the cheek, the editorial pages of metropolitan newspapers salute the rebellious "gastronomic spirit" of tasteless food.
Sports
Penfield is a Class AA school in Part V for the state of New York. It competes with the largest schools in the state for sectional and state championships. Penfield Varsity Soccer is the # 8 nation program in the all-time win in high school football. Formerly known as Penfield Head with Mascot from Indian Chief Indians in a feathery head dress. The Boys' and Girls cross-country, indoor and outdoor track coach, Dave Hennessey, holds the highest cross-country victory record in national history with over 900.
Country title
- Boys' voices: 1987, 1989, 1994, 2009, 2017
- Soccer boys: 2001, 2002, 2004
- Girls' voices: 2005, 2011, 2017
- Gymnastic girls: 2004, 2006
- Swimming girls: 2017
Part V Title
- Baseball Boys: 1975, 2009, 2010, 2012
- Children Cross Country: 1994, 2005, 2007
- Indoor Boy Tracks: 1997
- Lacrosse Boys: 1992, 1993, 2000, 2006, 2013
- Soccer Boys: 1949, 1952, 1955, 1958, 1966, 1970, 1976, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2010
- Tennis Boy: 1988,2001, 2002, 2003
- Men's Volleyball: 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2017
- Boy Wrestling (Class AA): 2010
- Lacrosse Girls: 1997, 2007, 2012, 2013
- Tennis Girls: 2003, 2008, 2009
- Gymnastic Girls: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
- Women's Indoor Path: 2011
- Girls' Basketball: 2009, 2012
- Bowling Men: 2011
- Women's Swimming 2009
- Girls' Cross Country 2010
- Girls Field Hockey 2003
- Girls 2012 Path and Field
- Cheerleading: Winter 2013, Autumn 2013, Winter 2014, Autumn 2015
In 1950 Penfield High School beat Scottsville 5-2 to win the Class C Monroe Soccer Soccer Championship.
Famous Alumni
- Actor Pete Duel
- Former professional wrestler and Chyna adult actress
- Former professional footballer Josh Bolton
- Former professional footballer Joe Mercik
References
External links
- Penfield Central School District site
- Penfield High School website
- Special School - Penfield High School
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