Pittsford Mendon High School | |
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Address | |
472 Mendon Road Pittsford, NY 14534 USA |
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Coordinates | 43°03′36″N 77°31′08″W / 43.059983°N 77.518845°WCoordinates: 43°03′36″N 77°31′08″W / 43.059983°N 77.518845°W |
Information | |
Type | Public high school |
Established | 1972 |
School district | Pittsford Central School District |
Principal | Karl Thielking |
Faculty | 75.0 (on FTE basis) |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 1018 (as of 2012–13) |
Student to teacher ratio | 12.9 |
Color(s) | Maroon and Gold |
Team name | Vikings |
Rival |
Pittsford Sutherland High School Brighton High School Fairport High School |
Website | School website |
Pittsford Sutherland High School Brighton High School
Pittsford Mendon High School is a public high school in suburban Rochester, Monroe County, upstate New York. It is one of two high schools in the Pittsford Central School District, the other being Pittsford Sutherland High School. Pittsford Mendon is located at 472 Mendon Road (from which the school gets its name) in the town of Pittsford, near the town of Mendon, New York.
As of the 2012–13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,018 students and 82 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.4.
Pittsford Mendon was ranked 71st in the country (a Gold Medal School) by U.S. News & World Report in its 2013 high school rankings.
In 2007, the school was ranked 94th nationwide in Newsweek's Top 1,300 High School's in the United States. Rankings are calculated using "a ratio that takes the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate, and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2006 divided by the number of graduating seniors."
The school was ranked in 58th place nationwide in Newsweek's May 8, 2006 issue, listing the Top 1,200 High Schools in The United States. Pittsford Mendon High School was ranked as Number 39 in the United States in Newsweek's 2005 survey.
Mendon offers a variety of courses, with numerous Advanced Placement (AP) courses in Science, English, Social Studies, Math, Art, Foreign Language, and Music.
Park Road Elementary School, Thornell Road Elementary School, and the southern part of Mendon Center Elementary School feed into Barker Road Middle School, then to Pittsford Mendon High School.