Louis E. Dieruff High School
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Louis E. Dieruff High School (typically referred to as Dieruff High School) is a public high school
located in Allentown
, Pennsylvania
, in the United States
. The school is named after Louis E. Dieruff, a noted educator in the Allentown School District
.
The school, founded in 1959, is located at 815 North Irving Street in Allentown. It serves students in grades nine through 12 from the eastern and southern southern parts of the city.
Allentown's other public high school, William Allen High School
(founded in 1858 as Allentown High School), serves students from the western and central parts of the city. Dieruff is the smaller of the two schools.
to serve the growing population of Allentown. In 1965 the Allentown School District Planetarium
was added to the building. Additional classrooms and the East Branch of the Allentown Public Library (later closed and converted to classrooms) were built in 1970.
Under the Allentown School District's Comprehensive Facilities Plan, at a cost of $28million, the school has seen recent renovation and the addition of the Michael P. Meilinger wing in 2009, used mostly for freshman classes.
On September 7, 2008 just before 3pm, an EF1 tornado about 50 yards wide touched down causing minor damage to the school. This caused for classes on September 8–10, 2008 to be canceled to clean up.
results in: reading, writing, mathematics and two years of science.
2009 - 481st
2008 - 480th
2007 - 485th
In 2010 the high school is in Corrective Action II 3rd Year level in AYP status due to chronically low student achievement for the past five years. The Pennsylvania Department of Education identified the school as Persistently Low Performing in its application for the 2010 federal School Improvement Grant funding.
Graduation rate:
2010 - 68%
2009 - 65%
11th grade Reading:
2010 - 49% on grade level. In Pennsylvania, 67% of 11th graders are on grade level in Reading.
2009 - 44%, State - 65%
2008 - 41%, State - 64%
11th grade Math:
2010 - 38% on grade level. In Pennsylvania, 59% of 11th graders are on grade level in Math
2009 - 37%, State - 55%
2008 - 35%, State - 56%
11th grade Science:
2010 - 14% on grade level. In Pennsylvania, 39% of 11th graders are on grade level in Science.
2009 - 12%, State - 40%
Boys Basketball
Girls Basketball
, is an actual husky dog named "Kiska V" (now the fifth dog mascot so named by the school since 1959). The husky is named in honor of the 10 men and women captured by the Japanese
on Kiska Island
in 1942, during World War II
, some of whom were Allentown servicemen. Dieruff's teams are known as "Huskies".
fears of science education inadequacy and a general interest in astronomy
before the Moon landing
, the Allentown School District erected a planetarium
inside Louis E. Dieruff High School in 1965 http://www.astronomy.org/history/index.html.
Following an acrimonious budget debate in 1991, wherein all programs that were deemed as "nonessential" were to be removed from the Allentown School District's budget, all funding for the continued operation and upkeep of the planetarium has come from private sources.
in District XI of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association
(PIAA). The conference is generally considered one of the most competitive in the state and nation and has produced many professional athletes.
The school plays its home football
, soccer, and field hockey
games at J. Birney Crum Stadium
, which, with a capacity of over 15,000, is the second largest high school stadium in Pennsylvania
.
Acceptance Club,
AFJROTC,
Art Club,
Art Archives,
Band (Marching Band, Jazz Band, Concert Band, etc.),
Band Front,
Chess Team,
Choir,
Class Councils,
Dance Team,
Debate Team,
Drama Club,
Environmental Club,
Future Educators Association,
German Honor Society,
International Club,
Key Club,
"The Leader" Newspaper,
"Ledannus" Yearbook,
National Honor Society,
Physical Fitness Club,
SADD,
Scholastic Scrimmage,
School Council,
Ski Club,
Spanish Honor Society,
Stage Crew,
Strategic Gaming Club,
Student Council,
Student Forum, and
Weightlifting Club
Bearing proudly Blue and Gray!
May we for thy spirit yearn;
Help us e’er to seek and learn.
Now, hail our Alma Mater strong
And may we proudly say:
To you we ever will belong!
We salute you, Blue and Gray!
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in Allentown
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Allentown is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the 215th largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 118,032 and is currently...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The school is named after Louis E. Dieruff, a noted educator in the Allentown School District
Allentown School District
The Allentown School District is a large urban public school district located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Serving most of the city of Allentown, it is the fourth largest school district in Pennsylvania, with 17,962 students, with 15.7% White, 17.4% Black, 64.4% Hispanic,...
.
The school, founded in 1959, is located at 815 North Irving Street in Allentown. It serves students in grades nine through 12 from the eastern and southern southern parts of the city.
Allentown's other public high school, William Allen High School
William Allen High School
William Allen High School is one of two public high schools of the Allentown School District located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States....
(founded in 1858 as Allentown High School), serves students from the western and central parts of the city. Dieruff is the smaller of the two schools.
History
Its construction began in 2004 as a prospective junior high schoolMiddle school
Middle School and Junior High School are levels of schooling between elementary and high schools. Most school systems use one term or the other, not both. The terms are not interchangeable...
to serve the growing population of Allentown. In 1965 the Allentown School District Planetarium
Planetarium
A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation...
was added to the building. Additional classrooms and the East Branch of the Allentown Public Library (later closed and converted to classrooms) were built in 1970.
Under the Allentown School District's Comprehensive Facilities Plan, at a cost of $28million, the school has seen recent renovation and the addition of the Michael P. Meilinger wing in 2009, used mostly for freshman classes.
On September 7, 2008 just before 3pm, an EF1 tornado about 50 yards wide touched down causing minor damage to the school. This caused for classes on September 8–10, 2008 to be canceled to clean up.
Demographics
The school's class size is approximately 16 students per teacher, with the Pennsylvania average at 15 per teacher. The student ethnicity is as follows: Hispanic 60%, White 22%, Black 15%, Asian & Pacific Islander 2%, and Native American & Native Alaskan less than 1%. 79% of students are eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch, with the state average at 33%.Academic achievement
The Allentown School District was ranked 482nd out of 498 Pennsylvania school districts, in 2010, by the Pittsburgh Business Times. The ranking was based on student academic achievement on four years of PSSAPennsylvania System of School Assessment
The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment is a standardized test administered to public schools in the state of Pennsylvania. Students in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11 are assessed in reading skills and mathematics. Students in grades 5, 8, and 11 are assessed in writing skills...
results in: reading, writing, mathematics and two years of science.
2009 - 481st
2008 - 480th
2007 - 485th
In 2010 the high school is in Corrective Action II 3rd Year level in AYP status due to chronically low student achievement for the past five years. The Pennsylvania Department of Education identified the school as Persistently Low Performing in its application for the 2010 federal School Improvement Grant funding.
Graduation rate:
2010 - 68%
2009 - 65%
11th grade Reading:
2010 - 49% on grade level. In Pennsylvania, 67% of 11th graders are on grade level in Reading.
2009 - 44%, State - 65%
2008 - 41%, State - 64%
11th grade Math:
2010 - 38% on grade level. In Pennsylvania, 59% of 11th graders are on grade level in Math
2009 - 37%, State - 55%
2008 - 35%, State - 56%
11th grade Science:
2010 - 14% on grade level. In Pennsylvania, 39% of 11th graders are on grade level in Science.
2009 - 12%, State - 40%
Athletic accomplishments
Football::- 1961: Lehigh Valley Big 6 Champions
- 1964: Lehigh Valley Big 6 Champions
- 1969: Lehigh Valley Big 8 Tri-Champions
- 1971: Lehigh Valley Big 6 Champions
- 1977: East Penn Conference Champions
- 1979: Undefeated champions (10-0-1), East Penn Conference.
- 1981: Tri-champions with (Emmaus High SchoolEmmaus High SchoolEmmaus High School is a public high school located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The school serves grades 9 through 12 in Pennsylvania's East Penn School District in the Lehigh Valley region of the state....
and Whitehall High SchoolWhitehall High School (Pennsylvania)Whitehall High School is a public high school, based in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley region, in the United States. It is the only high school in the Whitehall-Coplay School District. As of the 2006-2007 academic school year, 1,393 students attend the...
), East Penn Conference. - 1992: East Penn Conference Champions
Boys Basketball
- 1966: District XIPIAA District 11District 11 of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association is an interscholastic athletic association in Northeastern Pennsylvania. District 11 is one of the PIAA's 12 athletic conferences and comprises mostly high schools within the Lehigh Valley and a few surrounding counties. Member...
Champions - 1967: District XI Champions
- 1968: District XI Champions
- 1969: District XI Champions
- 1977: District XI Champions
Girls Basketball
- 1975: District XI Champions - PIAA State Champions
- 1976: - PIAA State Champions
- 1983: District XI Champions
Student accomplishments
Dieruff High School has had many students who have won various individual awards and competitions, including:- Three-Straight 4th Place finishes in the Pennsylvania State "We The People" Competition in PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
(2005–2007) - Olympiad of the Mind runner-ups (2005)
- Three-Straight 1st Place finishes in the Midwest Regional JROTC Drill Competition in Galloway, OhioGalloway, OhioGalloway is an unincorporated community west of the city of Columbus in southern Prairie Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States. The 43119 ZIP Code, however covers a significant portion of rural and suburban western Franklin County, as well as parts of western Columbus, and locals might...
- AFJROTC Drill Midwest Region Champions: 2004-2005-2006
- Two-Straight 1st Place finishes in the Eastern Regional JROTC Drill Competition in Sewell, New JerseySewell, New JerseySewell is an unincorporated area within Mantua Township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States. Sewell also refers to part of Washington Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, which is not part of Mantua Township. Locals refer to the Sewell part of Mantua as Old Sewell...
(2005–2006) - AFJROTC Drill Norhteast Region Champions: 2000-2002-2003-2006
- 2005 AFJROTC Dieruff Huskies PA-011 National Drill Champions #1 Team in the Nation.
- 2006 AFJROTC Dieruff Huskies PA-011 National Drill Champions #1 Team in the Nation.
- 2nd Place, Group 1A Marching Band, US Scholastic Band Association's Yamaha Cup. "Best Percussion," and "Best Music" awards, Giants StadiumGiants StadiumGiants Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. Maximum seating capacity was 80,242. The building itself was 230.5 m long, 180.5 m wide and 44 m high from service level to the top of the seating bowl and 54 m high to...
, East Rutherford, New JerseyEast Rutherford, New JerseyEast Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,913. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located west of Midtown Manhattan....
, 2006. - 1st place, Group 1A Marching Band, US Scholastic Band Association's Yamaha Cup. giants StadiumGiants StadiumGiants Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium, located in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. Maximum seating capacity was 80,242. The building itself was 230.5 m long, 180.5 m wide and 44 m high from service level to the top of the seating bowl and 54 m high to...
, East Rutherford, New JerseyEast Rutherford, New JerseyEast Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 8,913. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located west of Midtown Manhattan....
, 2009 - Dieruff's 2009 yearbook, The 'L Edition, was selected as a national sample and distributed to other schools as a sample of a good yearbook, and was also picked to be featured in the Yearbook Yearbook, a book displaying the best of the best from Taylor Publishing.
Mascot
The school's mascot, an Alaskan huskyAlaskan Husky
The Alaskan husky is not a breed of dog rather it is a type or a category. It falls short of being a breed in that there is no preferred type of and no restriction as to ancestry; it is defined only by its purpose, which is that of a highly efficient sled dog...
, is an actual husky dog named "Kiska V" (now the fifth dog mascot so named by the school since 1959). The husky is named in honor of the 10 men and women captured by the Japanese
Empire of Japan
The Empire of Japan is the name of the state of Japan that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 to the enactment of the post-World War II Constitution of...
on Kiska Island
Kiska
Kiska is an island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska located at . It is about long and varies in width from - Discovery :...
in 1942, during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, some of whom were Allentown servicemen. Dieruff's teams are known as "Huskies".
Planetarium
Amidst Cold WarCold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
fears of science education inadequacy and a general interest in astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
before the Moon landing
Moon landing
A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission on 13 September 1959. The United States's Apollo 11 was the first manned...
, the Allentown School District erected a planetarium
Planetarium
A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation...
inside Louis E. Dieruff High School in 1965 http://www.astronomy.org/history/index.html.
Following an acrimonious budget debate in 1991, wherein all programs that were deemed as "nonessential" were to be removed from the Allentown School District's budget, all funding for the continued operation and upkeep of the planetarium has come from private sources.
Athletics
Dieruff competes in the Lehigh Valley ConferenceLehigh Valley Conference
The Lehigh Valley Interscholastic Athletic Conference is an athletic conference consisting of 12 large high schools from Lehigh and Northampton counties in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States...
in District XI of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association
Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Inc. is one of the governing bodies of high school and junior high school sports for the state of Pennsylvania, United States....
(PIAA). The conference is generally considered one of the most competitive in the state and nation and has produced many professional athletes.
The school plays its home football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, soccer, and field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
games at J. Birney Crum Stadium
J. Birney Crum Stadium
J. Birney Crum Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The stadium seats 15,000 and is used by several area high schools and the Pennsylvania Stoners of the NPSL and the Northampton Laurels of the WPSL soccer teams. J...
, which, with a capacity of over 15,000, is the second largest high school stadium in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
.
Clubs and activities
Academic Bowl,Acceptance Club,
AFJROTC,
Art Club,
Art Archives,
Band (Marching Band, Jazz Band, Concert Band, etc.),
Band Front,
Chess Team,
Choir,
Class Councils,
Dance Team,
Debate Team,
Drama Club,
Environmental Club,
Future Educators Association,
German Honor Society,
International Club,
Key Club,
"The Leader" Newspaper,
"Ledannus" Yearbook,
National Honor Society,
Physical Fitness Club,
SADD,
Scholastic Scrimmage,
School Council,
Ski Club,
Spanish Honor Society,
Stage Crew,
Strategic Gaming Club,
Student Council,
Student Forum, and
Weightlifting Club
Notable alumni
- Rick BraunRick BraunRick Braun is a smooth jazz trumpet player.Before embarking on a solo career, Braun got his start by playing in several bands, including guitarist Jeff Golub's Avenue Blue...
, jazz musician. - Andre ReedAndre ReedAndre Darnell Reed is a former professional American football player. He played wide receiver in the National Football League for 16 seasons, 15 with the Buffalo Bills and one with the Washington Redskins .Reed ranks tenth in NFL history in total career receptions with 951.-Football career:Reed...
, former professional football player, Buffalo BillsBuffalo BillsThe Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
and Washington RedskinsWashington RedskinsThe Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...
.
Alma mater
Dieruff High School, be our stay,Bearing proudly Blue and Gray!
May we for thy spirit yearn;
Help us e’er to seek and learn.
Now, hail our Alma Mater strong
And may we proudly say:
To you we ever will belong!
We salute you, Blue and Gray!
External links
- Louis E. Dieruff High School Official Web Site.
- Louis E. Dieruff High School at Allentown School District.
- Louis E. Dieruff High School at Public School Review.
- Louis E. Dieruff High School athletics schedule and scores at HighSchoolSports.net.
- Louis E. Dieruff Page at Lehigh Valley Conference Official Web Site.
- Louis E. Dieruff High School is at coordinates 40.62167°N 75.44°W