Middletown High School (New York)
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Gardner Ave. Ext. Middletown, NY 10940 |
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| Coordinates | 41°27′06″N 74°23′54″W / 41.45167°N 74.39833°W |
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| School type | Public, high school |
| School district | Enlarged City School District of Middletown |
| Principal | Tracey Sorrentino |
| Staff | 140 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,179 (2005) |
| • Grade 9 | 562 |
| • Grade 10 | 602 |
| • Grade 11 | 570 |
| • Grade 12 | 445 |
| Language | English |
| Color(s) | Blue and white |
| Mascot | Bear |
| Team name | Middie Bears |
| Rivals | Port Jervis High School, Newburgh Free Academy, Pine Bush High School |
| Communities served | Middletown Town of Wallkill (part) Town of Wawayanda (part) |
| Feeder schools | Twin Towers Middle School, Monhagen Middle School |
| Website | middletowncityschools |
Middletown High School serves 9th through 12th grade students in the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, which covers that city as well as adjacent portions of the towns of Wallkill and Wawayanda in Orange County, New York, United States. It is located on Gardner Avenue in a small outlying area of the city, near the county fairgrounds on a small rise south of NY 211.
The school, formerly Anthony Veraldi Junior High School, built in 1959, replaced the building now known as Twin Towers Middle School as the district's high school in 1976 after a major expansion. It has been expanded at least four times since then.
The school has been at the center of a number of controversies in the last several years. When former district superintendent Robert Sigler was investigated and convicted in 2003 for sexually abusing a male student, then-principal Bernard Cohen was suspended by the school board (with pay) and barred from school-related events for allegedly not doing enough to prevent it, and other allegations against him. These included under reporting violence and complaints at the school (involving students, teachers and him), falsifying records in a corrupt manner, putting students who dropped out or got expelled under the "transferred schools" category, and last but not least, unethically accepting money and/or other bribes and favors in return for getting students diplomas who didn't meet NY state requirements. He claimed it was retaliation for his testimony before the county grand jury investigating the abuse and that he was being scapegoated. Students claiming to be sympathetic to him organized a protest walkout, spoke in his behalf at board meetings and then helped campaign during the ensuing elections, in which two incumbents were defeated, Cohen denied having anything to do with this. Four years later, the school district settled with Cohen for $425,000.
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