Type Public high school Founder William H. Hall Principal Dan Zittoun Motto 'Live like a Warrior.' | Established 1924 Superintendent Tom Moore Phone +1 860-232-4561 Colors White, Blue | |
School district West Hartford Public Schools Address 975 N Main St, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA District West Hartford Public Schools Profiles | ||
William H. Hall High School, also known as Hall High, is a four-year public high school located in West Hartford, in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The school colors are blue and white, and the mascot is the "Warrior." It is one of two public high schools in the West Hartford Public Schools, the other being Conard High School. Enrollment in grades 9–12 for the 2006–2007 school year was 2,604 students.
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Hall has a long running, cross-town rivalry against Conard High School competing in the Central Connecticut Conference in the West Division.They met that record again in 2011 and 2013. The team was also the Central Connecticut Conference Champions in 2011 and again in 2013. In soccer, Hall won the 1980 state championship 3-2 over E. O. Smith High School. The school also reached the semifinals of the state tournament four times under head coach Zeke Seguro, who won his 150th game as coach on October 10, 2008 with a 1-0 victory at South Windsor. Hall's boys' cross country team has won the Central Connecticut Conference four of the last five years dating back to 2012. As of 2013, the girls' swimming and diving team had recorded 29 consecutive wins.
Hall has a renowned jazz program, which stage an annual production called Pops 'n' Jazz, regularly selling over 3,000 tickets every year. They have also won the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival twice, in 1998 and 2000. The band has performed for the president at the White House, appeared in Ken Burns's documentary film ''Jazz'' and shared the stage with countless jazz luminaries, including Count Basie Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Jimmy Heath, Ted Nash, Arturo O'Farrell, Phil Woods and Joe Lovano.