Simsbury High School is a public school located in Simsbury, Connecticut. The school was ranked number 3 in Connecticut Magazine's list of Top Connecticut Public High Schools. It was also included in list of Newsweek magazine's 2009 top 1500 public schools, as well as earning the top and second place (which varies every year between the two spots) in the Farmington Valley School systems. SHS is in the top 6% of all schools nationally.

Simsbury High School offers 33 varsity sports with 72 competitive teams that involve over 1180 individual students. The athletic program has been honored multiple times with the Michaels Achievement Cup for outstanding achievement in athletics in the state of Connecticut. About 75% of the student body is involved in clubs and activities.

Academic achievements

SHS students ranked highly in CT on the Connecticut Academic Performance Test

Connecticut Academic Performance Test

The Connecticut Academic Performance Test, or simply the CAPT, is a state-mandated standardized test administered by the Connecticut State Board of Education that all public school students in Connecticut must take. Students in some districts must pass to graduate high school...

, scoring at or above 97% percent proficient in all categories in 2007 and 2008.

From the Class of 2005, 93% attended four-year and two-year colleges and universities. This included in and out-of-state universities.

Simsbury High School was selected as having one of the top 100 outstanding music programs in the United States.

In 2005, the mean SAT score was 1162.

Sports

Simsbury High School is a member of the Central Connecticut Conference

Central Connecticut Conference

The Central Connecticut Conference is an interscholastic athletic conference in the Greater Hartford region of Connecticut, United States. The conference has historically had three divisions - the East, West, and South - but formed a fourth division, the North, before the 2004-2005 school year...

, overseen by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference

Connecticut Association of Schools

The Connecticut Association of Schools and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference is the governing body for secondary school athletics and other interscholastic competition in the state of Connecticut.- History :...

 for public school sports in the state of Connecticut.

Fall

• Football
• Cheerleading
• Men's Soccer: 1992 Class LL State Champs, 2003 Class LL Co-State Champs, 2006 Class LL State Champs
• Women's Soccer: 1994 Class LL State Champs, 2000 Class LL State Champs, 2005 Class LL State Champs, 2007 Class LL Runner-Up
• Field Hockey: 2006 Class L Runner-Up, 2008 Class L Co-State Champs
• Men's Cross Country: 2006 Class L State Champs
• Women's Cross Country: 2006 & 2007 Class L State Champs
• Men's & Women's Badminton: 2008 & 2009 State Champs
• Men's Crew: Head of Charles Men's Youth Four 1978
• Women's Crew: Head of Charles Women's Youth Eight 1977, 1980, 1985
• Women's Volleyball
• Co-ed Ballroom Dancing (Year long)

Winter

• Men's Hockey: 2002-2003 Division I State Champions
• Women's Hockey
• Wrestling: 1991-1992 State Champions
• Cheerleading
• Men's Basketball
• Women's Basketball
• Men's & Women's Cross-Country Skiing: State Champions since 1978
• Fencing
• Co-ed Curling: 2007 State Champs
• Co-ed Swim and Dive Team
• Co-ed Curling

Spring

• Men's Lacrosse
• Women's Lacrosse
• Women's Golf
• Men's Golf: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 CIAC Division 1 State Champions (many championships not listed)
• Baseball: 1997 State Champions
• Softball
• Men's Track And Field
• Women's Track And Field: 1995 Class L State Champs, 2006 Class L State Champs, 2008 Class L State Champs
• Men's Volleyball
• Men's Crew: 2011, 2010, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000 V8 CPSRA Champions
• Women's Crew: New England Varsity Eight Champions 1980, 1982; CPSRA Champions 2010, 2006, 2003, 2001, 2000
• Men's Tennis
• Women's Tennis
• Rugby: Club Sport
• Mountain Biking: Club Sport
• Dodgeball Intramural

Notable alumni

• Justin Foley
  Justin Foley
  Justin Foley is best known as the drummer of the metalcore band, Killswitch Engage. He is also an active member of the band Blood Has Been Shed along with Killswitch Engage's lead singer, Howard Jones...
  
  , drummer for metalcore
  Metalcore
  Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
  
   band Killswitch Engage
  Killswitch Engage
  Killswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999 after the disbandment of Overcast and Aftershock. Killswitch Engage's current lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones, bassist Mike D'Antonio, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, and drummer...
  
  , graduated from Simsbury High in 1994.
• Nick Shapiro (1998), the all time Men's Ice Hockey leading scorer, was recently named a Press Secretary in President Obama's administration.
• Jennifer Weiner
  Jennifer Weiner
  Jennifer Weiner is a Jewish American writer, television producer, and former journalist. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Background and career:...
  
  , author of Good in Bed
  Good in Bed
  Good In Bed is the debut novel of Jennifer Weiner. It tells the story of large Jewish woman journalist, her love and work life and her emotional abuse issues with her father. The novel was a New York Times Best Seller.-Plot summary:...
  
   and In Her Shoes
  In Her Shoes (novel)
  In Her Shoes is a work of Jewish American literature by Jennifer Weiner. It tells the story of two sisters and their estranged grandmother. The novel was a New York Times bestseller.-Plot summary:...
  
  , graduated from Simsbury High in 1987.

External links

• High School Web site