Scarsdale High School

Scarsdale Senior High School
Scarsdale High School seal Non Sibi (Not for One's Self)
Location
Scarsdale, New York
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	1917
School district	Scarsdale Union Free School District
Principal	Kenneth Bonamo
Grades	9–12
Number of students	approx. 1,600
Color(s)	Maroon      White
Athletics	Baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, crew, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling
Athletics conference	Section 1 (NYSPHSAA)
Mascot	Bandersnatch
Team name	Raiders
Average SAT scores	633 verbal 656 math 646 writing (2015)[1]
Newspaper	Maroon
Website	ScarsdaleSchools.com

Scarsdale High School (SHS) is a public high school in Scarsdale, New York, 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. In its very first selection process, the United States Department of Education named Scarsdale High School as "one of the 144 exemplary schools to which others may look for patterns of success."^[2] According to a study done for U.S. News & World Report, Scarsdale High School is in the nation's top 100 for math and science.^[3]

From the graduating class of 2009, 98% continued their education with college programs, and 96% entered 130 different four-year national and international colleges and universities. 15 students in the class of 2010 (4%) were named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, and 66 (18%) students received National Merit Letters of commendation.^[2] Between 2007 and 2009, Scarsdale High School made a transition from Advanced Placement (AP) to Advanced Topics (AT) courses.^[4][5]

In the 2009–10 school year, SHS had a professional staff of 164 with a median teaching experience of 14 years. 98% of the faculty held a master's degree, 76% had 30 credits or more beyond a master's, and 12% had doctorate degrees. The student faculty ratio is 9 to 1, and its teachers have one of the highest paying salaries in the country; 44% had a base-salary of over $100,000 in 2005.^[6]

Japanese population

Around 1986 only 5% of the school was of Asian origins. By 1991 large numbers of Japanese students enrolled at Scarsdale High because their fathers, on business assignments from Japanese companies, moved to Scarsdale for the quality of the schools. By that year almost 20% of the students were of Asian origins, most of them being of Japanese origins and a few being of Chinese and Korean origins. The school established an English as a second language (ESL) program to help Japanese students adjust. Initially the Japanese students faced hostility from many of the American students, and some Japanese students had hostility towards classmates they felt were becoming too Americanized and/or socialized too much with Americans. Therefore the Japanese and American students socialized separately.^[7] Principal Judy Fox formed the Multicultural Steering Committee to try to resolve racial tensions within the school.^[8]

The 2002 "homecoming bacchanal"

What The New York Times termed a "homecoming bacchanal" made regional news in 2002 and sent five students to the hospital with acute alcohol poisoning. Reportedly scores of students arrived drunk at the dance. 28 of them received suspensions. The Times said the incident evoked "soul-searching" in "this iconic suburb, which prides itself on giving children every advantage." A student was quoted as saying "We are supposed to be Scarsdale, the rich people, the good people, the studious." Principal John Klemme told student government leaders that "the world is taking a perverse pleasure in Scarsdale's humiliation" and challenged them to "reclaim your school."^[9][10]

Notable alumni

Scarsdale High School from the Brewster Road side

• Eric Alterman (1978), Nation columnist ^[11]
• Jacob M. Appel (1992), bioethics scholar^[12]
• Nan Aron (1966), civil rights advocate, public interest lawyer^[13][14]
• Nancy Friedman Atlas (1967), United States federal judge^[13][15]
• Greg M. Behrman (1994), author, Henry Kissinger Fellow for Foreign Policy at The Aspen Institute, founder, editor and CEO of NationSwell^[13][16]
• Dan Biederman (1971), urban management pioneer^[13]
• Leslie Cannold (1983), author, commentator, ethicist, activist^[13]
• Judy Cheng-Hopkins (1970), United Nations Commissioner^[13][17]
• Lizabeth Cohen (1969), historian, scholar^[13][18]
• Lydia Cornell (as Lydia Korniloff) (1971), actress
• Laura Dave (1995), novelist
• Lisa Donovan (1998), actress
• Robert Durst (1961), son of Seymour Durst, murderer ^[19]
• John S. Dyson (1961), businessman^[13]
• Nicole Eisenman (1983), visual artist^[13]
• Eve Ensler (1971), playwright, performer, activist^[13][20]
• Paul J. Feiner (1974), mayor of Greenburg, New York ^[21]
• David Feldshuh (1961), physician, dramatist, artistic director at Cornell University^[13]
• Tovah Feldshuh (1966), actress^{[13][22][23][24]}
• Rob Fishman (2004), entrepreneur and writer
• Richard Foreman (1955), playwright, avant-garde theater pioneer^[13][25]
• David Galef, novelist, short story writer
• Lindsay Gottlieb (1995), women's college basketball coach
• Gordon Gould (1938), physicist credited with inventing laser^[13][26]
• Earl G. Graves, Jr. (1980), basketball player^[13][27]
• Ross Greenburg (1973), executive for HBO Sports^[13][28]
• Peter Grosz (1992), actor^[29]
• Jonathan Haidt (1981), social psychologist^[13]
• Jeffrey Hoffman (1962), astronaut ^[13][30][31]
• Richard Holbrooke (1958), American diplomat^[13][32]
• Heather H. Howard (1986), health policy expert and political advisor^[33]
• Gish Jen (1974), novelist^[13][34]
• Kenneth I. Juster (1972), government official, lawyer^[13][35]
• Brewster Kahle (1978), artificial intelligence expert^[13][36][37]
• Matthew Kahn (1984), environmental economics scholar^[13]
• Bob Kauffman (1964), professional basketball player
• Alison Knowles (1951), artist^[13]
• Barbara Kopple (1964), documentary film director^[13][38]
• Richard Kostelanetz (1958), writer and visual artist^[13]
• Glenn Kramon (1971), journalist, assistant managing editor of The New York Times^[13]
• Robert Kuttner (1961), journalist, editor^[13][39]
• David Lascher (1990), actor^[11]
• John Leventhal (1970), musician, producer, songwriter, recording engineer^[13][40]
• Mara Liasson (1973), National Public Radio correspondent^[13][41]
• Cabot Lyford (1942), sculptor^[42]
• Charles S. Maier (1956), professor of history at Harvard University^[13]
• Michael Mark (1968), musician/composer^[13]
• Linda McCartney (1959), photographer, wife of Paul McCartney^[43]
• Liza Minnelli (attended 1961–62, did not graduate) singer, actor^[44]
• Rick Moser (1974), National League Football player, actor
• Ethan Nadelmann (1975), writer and advocate on drug policy reform^[13]
• Charles Newirth (1973), film producer^[13]
• Jack Newkirk (1932), United States naval aviator
• Judith Newman (1977), journalist and author
• Suzanne Nossel (1987), non-profit executive and human rights activist^[13]
• Dan O'Brien (1992), playwright^[13]
• 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^[13][45]
• Bryan Reynolds (1983), playwright, Shakespeare scholar^[13]
• Thomas E. Ricks, '73, journalist^[13][46]
• Tom Rogers (1972), media executive^[13][47]
• Dan Rosensweig (1979), business executive, CEO of Chegg^[48]
• Elisabeth Rosenthal (1974), physician, journalist for The New York Times^[13]
• Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (1966), climatologist^[13]
• Douglas Rushkoff (1979), media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian^[13]
• Daniel Schacter (1970), psychologist^[49]
• Carl Emil Schorske (1932), cultural historian^[13][50]
• Christopher M. Schroeder (1982), entrepreneur^[13]
• Alan Schwarz (1986), sportswriter^[13]
• John E. Schwarz (1957), political scientist, distinguished senior fellow at Demos
• DJ Shiftee (2004), DJ, turntablist, born Samuel Morris Zornow^[51]
• Aaron Sorkin (1979), screenwriter^[13][52]
• Andrew Ross Sorkin (1995), journalist^[13]
• Richard Stengel (1973), editor of Time magazine^[13][53]
• Roderick Stephens (1927), American sailor
• Carolyn Strauss (1981), television executive and producer^[13][54]
• George Sugihara (1968), theoretical biologist^[13][55]
• Ivan Sutherland (1955), Internet pioneer^[13][56]
• Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (1969), judge^[13][57]
• James Traub (1972), journalist^[13]
• Gary Trauner (1979), Wyoming politician^[58][59][60]
• Nina Totenberg (1962), journalist ^[13][61][62]
• Florence Wald (1934), nurse, professor, administrator^[13][63]
• John Wallach, (1960), journalist, author, editor, founder of Seeds of Peace^[13][64]
• Ellen Weiss (1977), radio executive^[13][65]
• Bob Wilber (1945), jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, band leader^[13]
• Harris Wofford (1944), United States Senator from Pennsylvania^[13][66][67]
• George Zimmer (1966), entrepreneur^[13]

References

External links

• Official website
• Scarsdale Alumni Association website
• Scarsdale High School Maroon, student newspaper website

Coordinates: 40°59′41″N 73°47′35″W / 40.99472°N 73.79306°W / 40.99472; -73.79306