Staples High School Explained

Staples High School
Seal Image:Staples High School logo.png
Alt:A blue crest with a torch, ribbon with '18' on the left side and '85' on the right. Below the torch is a shield that features a grapevine, bridge & water, an arrowhead, cannon & cannonballs and an old English 'S', with the words "RESPECT FOR LIFE" engraved on a ribbon below the shield. The entire crest is contained inside a wreath.
Type:Public high school
District:Westport Public Schools
Ceeb:070920
Grades:9-12
Principal:Stafford Thomas Jr.[1]
Ratio:9.63
Teaching Staff:175.00 (FTE)
Enrollment:1,686 (2022-23)[2]
Colors:Navy blue and white
Mascot:Construction worker named "the Wrecker"
Nickname:Wreckers
Newspaper:Inklings
Publication:Soundings
Yearbook:Stapleite
Location:70 North Avenue
City:Westport
State:Connecticut
Zipcode:06880
Country:United States

Staples High School is a public high school in Westport, Connecticut, United States. It is named after Horace Staples, who founded the school on April 26, 1884.[3] [4] Westport is one of eight school districts in District Reference Group A (along with Darien, Easton, New Canaan, Redding, Ridgefield, Weston, and Wilton).[5]

Campus

The school was first located at Riverside Avenue in a three-level red brick building. In 1958 Staples High School moved to its current location on a 9acres campus at 70 North Avenue.[6] As of 2020, the neighborhood around the high school is known as the Staples census-designated place.

History

Seeing the "town's lack of progress in education," Horace Staples, a wealthy businessman with interests in shipping, hardware sales, and banking, founded Staples High School. Initially Staples intended to fund the school via an interest left in his will; however, that interest became known while he was still alive, and led to the school's foundation being laid in 1884. On April 24, 1884, businesses closed early in Westport to celebrate the dedication of Staples High School. Connecticut Governor Thomas M. Waller attended the opening.In the first year of operation, commencing in the fall of 1884, Staples High School had 60 of the 807 students attending schools in Westport.[7]

On June 24, 1887, Staples High School conferred its first high school diplomas to six female students who comprised its first graduating class.[8]

In 1909, the town of Westport accepted control of Staples High School from the Horace Staples estate. From 1966 to 1969, Staples attracted some of the biggest names in music to perform in concert. The Animals, Cream, the Yardbirds, the Young Rascals, Sly and the Family Stone and Louis Armstrong to name a few. A short documentary was produced in 2017.

Activities

Inklings

The school newspaper, Inklings, has won the Columbia Scholastic Press Association gold medal every year since 2000 (in addition to a silver medal in 1999).[9] The paper has also received the rank of First Place with "Special Honors" from the American Scholastic Press Association since 2001 and has been dubbed "the best school paper in the state" by the Hartford Courant.

Notable alumni

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Main Office - Staples High School . shs.westportps.org . 4 March 2019.
  2. Web site: Staples High School. National Center for Education Statistics. August 19, 2024.
  3. Book: Woody Klein. Westport Historical Society (Conn.). Westport, Connecticut: the story of a New England town's rise to prominence. registration. 29 November 2011. May 2000. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-31126-0. 126.
  4. Book: Charles Melbourne Selleck. Norwalk: v. 1 and supplement. 21 November 2011. 1896. The author. 74.
  5. Web site: WCGMF-Discovery | Communities: By DRG . 2007-03-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070224091946/http://discovery.wcgmf.org/communities_bydrg.html . 2007-02-24 . Web page titled "Find a Community: By Educational Reference Group (DRG)" at the "Discovery 2007 / An initiative of the William Caspar Graustein Fund" Web site. Retrieved March 25, 2007.
  6. Book: Woody Klein. Westport Historical Society (Conn.). Westport, Connecticut: the story of a New England town's rise to prominence. registration. 29 November 2011. May 2000. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-31126-0. 382.
  7. Book: Woody Klein. Westport Historical Society (Conn.). Westport, Connecticut: the story of a New England town's rise to prominence. registration. 29 November 2011. May 2000. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-31126-0. 127.
  8. Book: Woody Klein. Westport Historical Society (Conn.). Westport, Connecticut: the story of a New England town's rise to prominence. registration. 29 November 2011. May 2000. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-31126-0. 128.
  9. News: Inzitari. Vanessa. Staples Student Newspaper Wins Big. 5 December 2011. The Daily Westport. 21 March 2011.
  10. https://www.thehour.com/westport/article/Westport-remembers-Marilyn-Chambers-8275028.php "Westport remembers Marilyn Chambers," The Hour (Norwalk, CT), Monday, April 13, 2009.
  11. Web site: Connor, Tim . The Story of M. Connecticut Magazine. October 14, 2014.
  12. Web site: John DiBartolomeo Basketball Player Profile, Maccabi Fox Tel-Aviv, Rochester, News, Winner League stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket . Eurobasket LLC . 30 January 2020 . en.
  13. Web site: In Historic Suburban Shift, 22-Year-Old Will Haskell Beats Incumbent State Sen. Toni Boucher.
  14. The Man In The Maze: Stew Leonard Jr. . 2015-01-14 . Garrity . Philip . westchestermagazine.com . 2021-11-20.
  15. News: The View From / Westport; It's a Quantum Leap For High School Senior. The New York Times. December 24, 2000. Darice. Bailer. November 10, 2015.
  16. Book: Marley Brant. Happier days: Paramount Television's classic sitcoms, 1974-1984. 21 November 2011. 1 October 2006. Random House Digital, Inc.. 978-0-8230-8933-8. 161.
  17. Web site: Clemson's Mike Noonan To Be Inducted into Connecticut Soccer Hall of Fame.
  18. Book: Dan Woog. Harlem Shake and Westport Too!. 18 February 2013. 15 February 2013.
  19. Web site: Yolen, Jane. A Short Biography. janeyolen.com. March 13, 2013.

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