Carmel High School (Carmel, New York)
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30 Fair St Carmel, New York, (Putnam County) 10512 United States |
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| Coordinates | 41°25′39″N 73°40′36″W / 41.4274°N 73.6766°WCoordinates: 41°25′39″N 73°40′36″W / 41.4274°N 73.6766°W |
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| School type | Public school (government funded), high school |
| School district | Carmel Central School District |
| NCES District ID | 3606570 |
| Superintendent | Andy Irvin |
| CEEB code | 331235 |
| NCES School ID | 360657000438 |
| Principal | Louis Riolo |
| Faculty | 106.71 (on an FTE basis) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1567 (2010-2011 school year) |
| • Grade 9 | 405 |
| • Grade 10 | 378 |
| • Grade 11 | 389 |
| • Grade 12 | 395 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 14.68 |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Suburb: Large |
| Color(s) |
Blue, Red and White |
| Athletics | Section 1 (NYSPHSAA) |
| Mascot | Rams |
| Website | chs |
Carmel High School is a public high school in Carmel, New York, currently serving grades 9-12. It is the only high school in the Carmel Central School District. The district includes part of Carmel, and part or all of several nearby towns, mostly in Putnam County, New York but also includes a small number of students from Dutchess County.
School athletic teams are known as the Rams, The schools colors are red, blue and white.
As the district consolidated, the position of principal at Carmel gradually separated from that of supervising principal of the district, which, in the 1960s, became superintendent of the district after the abolition of county superintendent of schools. Until the 1960s the district was based in Carmel High School.
Carmel High School's history traces back to the one-room schoolhouses that once dotted the towns of Carmel, Kent, and Patterson, descending most directly from Carmel School District Number 7, which served the hamlet of Carmel proper.
In 1853, Carmel District Number 7 obtained the two-room building of a private school that closed on the shore of Lake Gleneida. This structure was used until 1893 when the City of New York claimed the lake shore (the lake being part of its reservoir system) and obliged all structures on that side of Gleneida Avenue (Carmel's "Main Street", today one end of New York State Route 52) to be moved or demolished. Some buildings were moved across the street on rollers, but the schoolhouse was moved down nearby Brewster Avenue (today part of U.S. Route 6), and two additional rooms were built under it.
Both growth (additions to the building in 1899 and 1918) and accreditation (as a union school in June 1899, a middle school in October 1900, a senior school in January 1904, and finally as a high school in June 1906) followed as neighboring districts consolidated. The district became Union Free School District Number Ten. The school continued to serve grades 1-12. The first annual commencement was held June 22, 1908 at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church, according to an invitation reproduced in the 1899-1999 alumni directory. The centennial of this was commemorated in 2008, though the school had existed before 1908, and the present building's 75th anniversary had been celebrated as a school anniversary in 2004.
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