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Type
  
Public school

Campus
  
Suburban

Website
  
Website

Mascot
  
Mountain lion

Principal
  
Patrick Breen

Nickname
  
Mountie

Phone
  
+1 845-357-3800

Number of students
  
1,600

Suffern High School

Address
  
49 Viola Rd, Suffern, NY 10901, USA

District
  
Ramapo Central School District

Color
  
Navy blue, Carolina blue and white

Similar
  
Suffern Middle School, Viola Elementary School, Ramapo High School, North Rockland High Sch, East Ramapo Central S

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Suffern High School is located in the Ramapo Central School District in Suffern, New York. The school's mascot is a mountain lion (Mountie). Its yearbook is the Panorama. Suffern High is ranked in the top 500 high schools in the United States at number 439.

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Academics

Suffern High School offers many honors level classes, AP classes, and classes affiliated with the Syracuse University Project Advance program and SUNY Albany are offered as well.

Extracurricular Activities

There are over 60 extracurricular activities, many of which take place during unit lunch. Some of these activities include a newly introduced video game club Suffern High School Gamers Club, an Asian Culture club, the Family History Club, several honor societies, an Audio-visual Crew, two play productions per year, and a united student organization.

Yearbook

The Suffern High School yearbook, the Panorama, has received awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. The 2010 book, "ROAR," won a Silver Medal. The 2011 book, "IMPACT," won a Gold Medal and a Silver Crown award.

Athletics

Suffern High offers many sports throughout the year that take place both on and off campus; the school sports team is the Mounties. Some sports games are played at Suffern Middle School, located close to the high school. The following sports are available at Suffern (boys and girls teams are available unless noted):

Hockey

On March 11, 2012 Suffern High School celebrated its first New York State hockey championship in 20 years after scoring three unanswered goals after falling behind 2-0 to knock off The Pittsford Panthers 3-2 in the Division 1 of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) state hockey championship game.

Suffern High School was used for as a setting for certain scenes in the films "The Manhattan Project" and "Off the Black."

Notable alumni

  • Christine Andreas (1969), award-winning Broadway performer and cabaret singer.
  • Tony DeFrancesco, former MLB interim manager with the Houston Astros
  • Mary Frances Gunner (1911), playwright
  • Dan Gurewitch, writer and comedian, perhaps best known for CollegeHumor.
  • Hendrik Hertzberg – Chief speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter.
  • Sidney Hertzberg – New York Knicks basketball player
  • Joe Lockhart – Press Secretary for President Bill Clinton
  • Thomas Meehan – Tony award winner book writer of Annie and The Producers
  • Walt Weiss – Former Major League Baseball player and former manager of the Colorado Rockies.
  • References

    Suffern High School Wikipedia