Danbury High School
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Danbury High School is a public high school in Danbury, Connecticut
. Despite Danbury's population of 81,000, there is only one public high school, along with several small private schools, and one vocational high school. Danbury High School is supplemented by a magnet program called the Alternative Center for Excellence
. This program provides a Danbury High School diploma but exhibits additional criteria not required by most local institutions. Danbury High School has the second-highest high school enrollment in Connecticut. Its student body consists of a diverse population. The school recently underwent an accreditation review by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
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complex that is able to accommodate seating for close to 4,000 spectators. The field surface is Astroplay brand filled field turf that can be used in all types of weather. It also features a seven-pole Universal Sports Lighting system, an electronic remote controlled scoreboard, and heated concession building with bathrooms. The track is an eight-lane Mondo Limited Super X Surface.
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Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury is a city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It had population at the 2010 census of 80,893. Danbury is the fourth largest city in Fairfield County and is the seventh largest city in Connecticut....
. Despite Danbury's population of 81,000, there is only one public high school, along with several small private schools, and one vocational high school. Danbury High School is supplemented by a magnet program called the Alternative Center for Excellence
Alternative Center for Excellence
The Alternative Center for Excellence , formerly the Alternative Center for Education, is located in the former Locust Avenue School in Danbury, Connecticut, United States. It is an alternative high school within the city's school system, meant for at-risk students.The building itself, a brick...
. This program provides a Danbury High School diploma but exhibits additional criteria not required by most local institutions. Danbury High School has the second-highest high school enrollment in Connecticut. Its student body consists of a diverse population. The school recently underwent an accreditation review by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
The New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. is the U.S. regional accreditation association providing educational accreditation for all levels of education, from pre-kindergarten to the doctoral level, in the six-state New England region. It also provides accreditation for some...
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Athletics
Danbury High School has athletic teams in football, baseball, softball, basketball, cheerleading, wrestling, tennis, soccer, swimming, boys and girls track and field, and boys' cross country and more.Stadium
Constructed in 2002, Danbury High School has a multi-purpose stadiumMulti-purpose stadium
Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...
complex that is able to accommodate seating for close to 4,000 spectators. The field surface is Astroplay brand filled field turf that can be used in all types of weather. It also features a seven-pole Universal Sports Lighting system, an electronic remote controlled scoreboard, and heated concession building with bathrooms. The track is an eight-lane Mondo Limited Super X Surface.
Media appearances
Danbury High School has been featured on TruTV's The Principal's OfficeThe Principal's Office
The Principal's Office is a reality TV program on truTV that began airing on August 21, 2008. It is set in American high schools and features dramatic and humorous encounters between students and principals. Some events that lead to such encounters are students being late to class, truancy, food...
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Notable alumni
- Christina EllingtonChristina EllingtonChristina Yvette Ellington Pares, , is a beauty queen and entertainer from New York.Pares' first major beauty pageant title was Miss New York 2004, which she won competing as Miss Southern New York. She had previously placed second runner-up in 2003 as Miss Manhattan, and second runner-up in 2002...
(born 1982), Beauty Queen and entertainer, Miss New York 2004, Top 10 Finalist in Miss America 2005 - William R. RatchfordWilliam R. RatchfordWilliam Richard Ratchford was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Danbury, Connecticut, Ratchford graduated from Danbury High School, Danbury, Connecticut, in 1952. He received a B.A. from the University of Connecticut, Storrs, in 1956, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity....
(born 1934), Former U.S. Representative from Connecticut - Perry RotellaPerry RotellaPerry Francis Rotella is an American businessman and the current senior vice president and chief information officer of Verisk Analytics, a Jersey City, New Jersey-based corporation. Rotella has held multiple information technology executive positions with different large American companies...
(born 1963), American IT Executive and Businessman - Robert Joseph ShaheenRobert Joseph ShaheenRobert Joseph Shaheen is an American clergyman of the Maronite Catholic Church. He is the second and current Eparch of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon....
(born 1937), American clergyman of the Maronite Catholic Church
External links
- Danbury High School Marching Band
- Danbury High School Hatters Wrestling
- Danbury High School Web site
- Danbury High School "Strategic School Profile 2005-2006", Connecticut Department of Education (PDF file)
- Danbury High School Web page at Great Schools Web site
- http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/15503
- http://www.danburyhighschoolstadium.com