Haverford High School
| Haverford High School | |
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200 Mill Rd Havertown, Pennsylvania 19083 United States |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | Honor Truth Health Service |
| Founded | Building, 1956 |
| School district | School District of Haverford Township |
| Superintendent | Dr. Maureen Reusche |
| Principal | Mr. Pete Donaghy |
| Years taught | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,705 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 15:1 |
| Color(s) | Crimson Gold |
| Athletics conference | PIAA District 1 3A/4A Central League |
| Mascot | Fordinand |
| Average SAT scores | 1790 |
| Average ACT scores | 28 |
| Newspaper | The Fordian |
| Yearbook | Greystones |
| Athletic Director | Ms. Joann Patterson |
| Website | [1] |
Haverford Senior High School is the public high school of Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, United States, operated by the School District of Haverford Township. It is at 200 Mill Road in Havertown. The school serves the entirety of Haverford Township, including all of the unincorporated community of "Havertown" (a place name created by the US Postal Service to designate ZIP Code 19083, which is wholly within Haverford Township), and the Haverford Township portions of the unincorporated communities of Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Ardmore, Drexel Hill, and Wynnewood.
Approximately 90% of Haverford's graduates continue their formal education at colleges, universities and technical schools. Haverford students traditionally are well-placed in the National Merit Scholar Program and other academic award competitions in mathematics, science, foreign languages, writing, art and music.
All five elementary schools in the School District of Haverford Township feed into the middle school, which then feeds into Haverford High School.
Haverford High operates WHHS, the first FM broadcast high school radio station in the United States. The High School also has an award-winning newspaper that is almost over 80 years old The Fordian, which is now exclusively online at thefordian.com
The first recorded purchase of land for educational purposes in Haverford Township was made on October 28, 1797. A stone structure erected on a site along Darby Road at the crossroads Coopertown served as a school until 1872. Today, known as the Federal School, the building still stands and serves as a window to history for Haverford Township children. Every fourth-grade student spends a day at the Federal School learning what it was like to be a student in 1797.
The Llanerch School was built in 1905 and still stands on Darby road. It served as the high school until 1910. The Oakmont School was built on Eagle Road at Hathaway Lane in 1912 to serve as the new high school. It remained the high school until 1923. With the dawn of a new decade and World War I behind the country, Haverford Township began experiencing another wave of expansion. In 1923, the "new" Haverford High School on Darby Road was completed. It was expanded to include a junior high school in the 1930s and now serves as the Haverford Middle School and the school district's administrative offices.
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