Hope High School (Rhode Island) Explained

Hope High School
Established:1898
District:Providence Public School District
Us Nces District Id:4400900
Us Nces School Id:440090000224
Principal:Francisco Velasquez
Enrollment:725 (2021-22)[1]
Faculty:68.00 (FTE)
Ratio:14.69
Grades:9–12 (Vocational School 8-12)
Campus:Urban
Colors:Blue
Mascot:Blue Wave
Address:324 Hope Street
State:Rhode Island 02906
Country:United States

Hope High School is a public high school in the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. operated by Providence Public School District. It was founded in 1898. Its current building was completed in June 1936.[2]

Community system

In 2003, Hope High School was partitioned into three semi-independent "communities": Hope High School Arts Community, Hope High School Technology Community, and Hope Leadership Community—each with its own principal. Since June 2009, the Leadership Community no longer exists and as of June 2012, the Arts and Technology communities were merged into one school.[3] [4]

The triune system was developed in an attempt to remedy a history of exceptionally low test scores (2008 SAT combined score was 1047, over 900 points lower than Moses Brown School, a private school 2 blocks away) at Hope High School. Many regard Hope High - and the future success or failure of these reforms - as a "litmus test" for educational reform in Rhode Island.[5]

It serves grades 9-12 with a total of 949 students as of the 2020 academic year.

Athletic history

Hope High School won four baseball championships and three football championships between 1918 and 1929. Hope won the 1917, 1928, 1930, 1990, and 1992 state interscholastic outdoor track meet championships. The cross country team was the division two state champions 1988-1992. Hope's soccer team won the Rhode Island division 1 championship in 2006.

In 1938 Hope High's basketball team not only won the RI Schoolboy State Championship, the boys from Hope Street went on to win the New England Basketball Championship hosted in Connecticut. Charles Melay Simon earned all New England Honors to go along with his RI Schoolboy All State Honors.

In the period 1960 through 1963, Hope High's Falkmen (coach Bill Falk) were undefeated in cross-country, indoor and outdoor track competition winning both Division1 and State Championships all 4 years. In the winter of 1961, Hope High teams were Division 1 and State Champions in Basketball, Hockey, and Indoor Track - the three major winter sports at the time.

The 1956, 1960, and 1961 Hope hockey teams, coached by Ed Mullen, were crowned R.I. State champions.

Notable people

Alumni

Faculty

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hope High School. National Center for Education Statistics. May 6, 2020. April 18, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190418010243/https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=4400900&SchoolPageNum=2&ID=440090000224. live.
  2. Book: Public buildings a survey of architecture of projects constructed by federal and other governmental bodies between the years 1933 and 1939 with the assistance of the Public Works Administration . 1939 . 191. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. .
  3. Web site: 2005-02-15 . High School . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050215071546/http://www.providenceschools.org/dept/schools/hs.html . 15 February 2005 . providenceschools.org.
  4. Web site: PBGR Indicators . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080926134300/http://www.providenceschools.org/hs/hope/leadership/community.html . 2008-09-26 . 2008-09-26 . providenceschools.org.
  5. Web site: Reformed Hope High makes debut . GINA MACRIS . August 28, 2003 . 2007-01-27 . projo.com . 2007-03-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070318234103/http://www.projo.com/extra/2003/hopehigh/content/projo_20030828_hope28.b2b78.html . live .
  6. Book: Rhode Island. Dept. of State . Manual, with Rules and Orders, for the Use of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island . 1916 . Rhode Island. Dept. of State . 393 . 2020-11-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210526094958/https://books.google.com/books?id=L-M5AQAAMAAJ&q=richard+s+aldrich+born+washington+dc&pg=PA393 . 2021-05-26 . live.
  7. Web site: Sleeples Draft Sleeper . 22 April 2007 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200614001743/https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2007-04-22-0704220550-story.html . 2020-06-14 . June 14, 2020.
  8. Web site: BEARD, Edward Peter, (1940 -) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20121021163650/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000279 . October 21, 2012 . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . April 8, 2014.
  9. Web site: Ray Jarvis Stats . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190706114425/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=jarvira01 . July 6, 2019 . Baseball Almanac . April 8, 2014.
  10. Book: Joshi, S. T. . A Dreamer and a Visionary: H. P. Lovecraft in His Time . Liverpool University Press . 2001 . 978-0-85323-946-8 . Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies . 26 . 48–49 . en . j.ctt5vjhg7 . 248367702 . 2021-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210526094958/https://books.google.com/books?id=tfrbBSFn_p8C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA48&hl=en . 2021-05-26 . live.
  11. Web site: Al Russas . . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201129174910/https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/RussAl20.htm . November 29, 2020 . June 14, 2020.
  12. News: 15 November 2012 . CCRI Foundation to honor Avedisian, Caprio, White for changing lives . Warwick Online . Becon Communications . 9 September 2014 . 11 September 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140911002345/http://warwickonline.com/stories/CCRI-Foundation-to-honor-Avedisian-Caprio-White-for-changing-lives,76812?print=1 . live .
  13. Web site: Latino History in RI • Community Advocacy & Political Growth . 2023-07-23 . Nuestras Raices Rhode Island . en.

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