Edgemont Junior – Senior High School

"Edgemont High School" redirects here. For other uses, see Edgemont (disambiguation).

Edgemont Junior – Senior High School
Address
200 White Oak Lane Scarsdale , New York 10583 United States
Coordinates	41°00′03″N 73°48′29″W
Information
Type	Public secondary
Established	1955; 70 years ago (1955)
School district	Edgemont
Principal	Kyle Hosier[1]
Teaching staff	73.82 (FTE) (2017–18)[2]
Grades	7 – 12[2]
Gender	Co-ed
Enrollment	949 (2017–18)[2]
Student to teacher ratio	12.86 (2017–18)[2]
Campus	Suburban[2]
Color(s)	Royal Blue   White
Mascot	Panther
Rival	Scarsdale Raiders
Newspaper	Campus Magazine
Yearbook	Respectus
Website	ehs.edgemont.org

Edgemont Junior – Senior High School is a high school in Greenville, New York, serving students in grades 7 -12. Its feeder schools are Greenville School and Seely Place School, where students graduate in the sixth grade. The school's colors are blue and white, and its mascot is a panther. Edgemont Junior – Senior High School has a "California-style campus" which is similar to a small college campus. The school has 5 academic buildings, with one building dedicated mainly to the 7th and 8th graders. Greenville/Edgemont is an unincorporated part of Greenburgh, New York.

Rankings in the mass media

Niche Magazine selected the Edgemont School District as the #1 Public School District in America in 2015. Edgemont frequently fares well in national high school rankings, as well. In 2006, Newsweek named Edgemont the 61st best high school in the country. In 2007, the magazine ranked Edgemont higher, at 41st place. In 2005, The Washington Post named the school 26th, and in its 2008, U.S. News & World Report ranked Edgemont High School 28th.^[3] In 2012, U.S. News & World Report ranked Edgemont 19th best public high school in New York state and 96th best in the US.

More recently in 2013, Newsweek ranked Edgemont as the 18th best high school in the Northeast, and 72nd overall in the nation. It also reported that 99% of the student body graduate in four years. Of that 99%, 100% of those students are college-bound upon graduation.^[4]

Special programs and extracurriculars

Edgemont offers a rigorous academic curriculum that includes 13 Advanced Placement courses and 17 Honors courses in subjects including math, art, history, science, economics and foreign languages.^[5]

The school also runs a highly successful music and theater program. Edgemont's yearly spring musical participates in the High School Theater Awards presented by The Helen Hayes Youth Theatre, and often wins awards in many categories. Musically inclined students may choose from playing in the regular orchestra, the sports pep band, the chorus, the Chamber Choir, and the wind ensemble, among other programs.^[5] Edgemont's debate and Model UN teams are highly regarded, and frequently do well in tournaments and conferences. There are numerous student-run clubs ranging in many different areas, including a monthly school magazine, literary magazines and community service groups.

Its school newspaper publication, the Edgemont Campus, was revamped this school year. The magazine now prints 24 pages in color and includes more in-depth pieces.

The school offers special education programs.

It also provides a democratically run, student-centric Alternative School, known as Phædrus founded in 1977.

Athletics

The school fields over 60 different interscholastic sports teams, including soccer, cross-country, tennis, golf, bowling, field hockey, volleyball, football, wrestling, lacrosse, basketball, golf, winter and spring track, baseball, swimming, and softball.^[5]

Edgemont is known for its successful wrestling program, which, since 2003, has produced seven League Championship teams, three New York State Champions, nine Section 1 Wrestler of the Year Honorees, 15 All-State Wrestlers, 29 Individual Section Champion, 66 All-Section Wrestlers, five Con Edison Scholar-Athlete Award winners and dozens of All-League athletes. Edgemont Wrestling won both the 2022 Section 1 Dual Meet Championship and the 2022 Section 1 Team Championship.^[6]

Edgemont's Football team won three consecutive state championships in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Their Football program has also won five section championships, one in 1995 and four consecutive in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. It is currently coached by Brendan Connolly, former Edgemont WR and Muhlenberg College Athlete.

Notable alumni

• Matt Bernstein, former football player inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
• Ankur Bulsara of the band Seneca Hawk
• (Derek Gruen) Del Marquis, lead guitarist Scissor Sisters
• Paul Heyman, entertainment producer, writer, performer, marketer, promoter, advocate and commentator
• Michael Jamin, screenwriter King of the Hill, Maron, producer
• Robert C. Kolodny, author and specialist in human sexuality and related topics
• Steve Liesman (born 1963), journalist, senior economics reporter for the cable financial television channel CNBC^[7]
• Greg Lippmann, hedge fund manager, co-founder of Libremax
• Rob Morrow, actor (dropped out senior year)^[8]
• James Pitaro, class of 1987, President of ESPN and co-chair of Disney Media Networks
• Richard Posner, federal judge and law professor
• Richard Queen, hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis
• Dana Reeve, wife of actor Christopher Reeve
• Ben Schwartz, Emmy Award-winning writer, actor, comedian, and author
• Peter Scolari, actor
• David M Solomon, class of 1980, investment banker, CEO of Goldman Sachs (as of Oct 1, 2018).
• Lauren Spierer, class of 2009, disappeared near the campus of Indiana University

References

1. "Principal's Welcome". Edgemont HS. Retrieved July 20, 2019 – via ehs.edgemont.org.
2. "Search for Public Schools - Edgemont Junior-Senior High School (361020004509)". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
3. "Gold Medal Schools". U.S. News & World Report. November 29, 2007. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
4. Streib, Lauren (May 6, 2013). "Newsweek's Top 25 High Schools: Northeast". The Daily Beast. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
5. "Edgemont High School Profile 2008–2009" (PDF). Edgemont High School. October 29, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 16, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2012 – via www.edgemont.org.
6. "Edgemont Panthers Wrestling". www.edgemontwrestling.org.
7. Movers, Shakers, Music Lovers: Steve Liesman, CNBC, HeadCount. Accessed March 13, 2023. "Liesman: Yeah, I saw a bunch of upstate New York Grateful Dead shows over the years like so many others did. Great times, and a lot of great venues. But my first show was the Meadowlands in 1978, and I was 15 or so, at Edgemont High School in Scarsdale."
8. Lyall, Sarah (August 26, 1992). "AT DINNER WITH: Rob Morrow; He's No Peevish Dr. Fleischman, But He's at Home in Bagel Town". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 31, 2023.

External links

• Official website
• School district web site