Nyack High School Explained

Nyack High School
Principal:	Nicole Saieva
Students:	877 (2022-23)^[1]
Ratio:	9.71
Colors:	Maroon White
Team Name:	Redhawks
Usnwr Ranking:	2,243^[2]
Newspaper:	Nyack Spectrum
Sat:	1240^[3]
Act:	28
Location:	360 Christian Herald Rd Nyack, New York 10960
Country:	USA

Nyack High School is a secondary school serving parts of the Town of Orangetown and Town of Clarkstown, New York, United States. The original Nyack High School building is now part of BOCES. Since 1990, Nyack High School has been located less than a mile north of the old facility, at the corner of Christian Herald Road and Highland Avenue-(U.S. Route 9W).

Nyack High School is the sole high school in the Nyack Union Free School District in New York. Students come to the high school from Nyack Middle School, which gathers students from Upper Nyack, Liberty, Hilltop (now closed) and Valley Cottage elementary schools.

The high school is known for its academic performance with 94 percent of seniors taking the SAT in 2004,^[4] its football team, its theatrical productions and its music program.^[5]

In 1972, one of its school buses was involved in an accident getting struck by a Penn Central freight train, which killed five students and injured 46.

Notable alumni

• Larry Abney, NBA player^[6]
• George Beim, former professional soccer player
• Roger Brown, NFL player^[7]
• Gloria Callen, backstroke swimmer^[8]
• Welles Crowther, worked in finance on the 104th floor of the South World Trade Center. Died on September 11 while saving at least eighteen lives. Also known as The Man in the Red Bandana^[9]
• Adam Deitch, drummer and producer
• Firth Haring Fabend, novelist and historian
• Terrence Fede, NFL defensive end for the Buffalo Bills
• Rupert Holmes, composer, singer-songwriter, musician and author
• Edward Hopper, painter, 1899^[4]
• George Jakowenko, NFL player^[10]
• Elijah Reichlin-Melnick, former member of the New York State Senate
• Jim Ridlon, former NFL player; sports painter and sculptor
• Claudio Sanchez, lead singer of Coheed and Cambria

External links

• Nyack High School

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nyack Senior High School. National Center for Education Statistics. July 4, 2024.
2. Web site: NYACK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. USNWR. June 25, 2023.
3. News: Academics . Niche . 2023-06-25.
4. Web site: A Trio of Villages Hugging the Hudson. Brenner. Elsa. 2004-12-05. The New York Times. 2008-05-04.
5. Web site: If You're Thinking of Living In: Nyack. Bader. Jenny Lyn. 1988-08-14. The New York Times. 2008-05-04.
6. Web site: Athlete Prevails in Court. 2006-01-19. Fresno Bee. 2008-05-04.
7. News: Klingaman. Mike. Catching Up With . . . former NFL defensive lineman Roger Brown. 1 May 2018. The Baltimore Sun. 12 December 2013.
8. Web site: Gloria Callen Jones. Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame. 1 May 2018.
9. Rinaldi, Tom (writer); Burns, Ken (narrator). Man In The Red Bandana Advertisement. ESPN. September 2011; retrieved September 4, 2012.
10. Web site: George Jakowenko. Rockland County Sports Hall of Fame. 1 May 2018.