Orchard Park High School
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4040 Baker Road Orchard Park, New York 14127 United States |
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| School district | Orchard Park Central School District |
| CEEB code | 334325 |
| Principal | Mr. Jonathan Wolf |
| Teaching staff | 116.1 (FTE) (as of 2007-08) |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,693 (as of 2007-08) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 14.6 (as of 2007-08) |
| Color(s) | Maroon and White |
| Athletics | NYSPHSAA Section 6 |
| Mascot | Opie the Quaker |
| Team name | Quakers |
| Newspaper | The Voice |
| Website | OPHS |
Orchard Park High School is a secondary school in Orchard Park, New York. The school has approximately 1725 children in grades 9-12. The students are divided among three houses with a principal for each house and a principal who oversees the entire school.
The main portion of the current high school building was completed in the late 1940s, and served from then until 1976 as the junior high school. In 1976, a large addition and renovation process doubled the size of the building and it became the high school. (The old junior high gym became the pool and added the gym adjacent to it. Also added is the three-story classroom addition and an auditorium adjacent to the original building.) (The former high school became a Middle School, which currently houses grades 6-8.) A common complaint regarding building design is that the narrowest staircase (capable of fitting only two people abreast) is in a central location; heavy between-period traffic often becomes congested in a bottleneck. The building had undergone only minimal refurbishment and changes since the late 1970s until the summer of 2008.
In 2008 renovations began in the science wing, the auditorium, the locker rooms, and turned the stage in the cafeteria into the new weight room. The old weight room is now a technology room. The Freeman entrance was also renovated, adding a larger hallway to the exit as well as a handicap ramp. All the renovations were complete by September 2010.~
Orchard Park High School offers courses in Art, Business, Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Physical Education, Foreign Language, Technology, Career and Technological Education, and Music. It offers 13 Advanced Placement courses: AP World History, AP European History, AP US History, AP US Government and Politics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Calculus, (AB and BC) AP Latin, AP Spanish, AP French Language, AP Physics, AP Chemistry, AP Computer Science, AP English Language and Composition, and AP English Literature and Composition.
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