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Horace Greeley High School is a public, four-year secondary school located in Chappaqua, New York and serving the Chappaqua Central School District. As of 2005, the school principal is Andrew Selesnick. The school's enrollment stands at roughly 1,300.

Horace Greeley is nationally respected for its high academic standards. It currently offers 23 advanced placement courses and came in at #42 in Newsweek's 2005 ranking of America's best high schools. Recent years have seen approximately one-fifth of graduating seniors recognized by the National Merit Scholarship committee; the class of 2004 included 25 National Merit semifinalists; the class of 2005 had 16. The mean SAT score among graduating seniors in the Class of 2005 was 1269 (612 Verbal and 657 Math). 97% of the Class of 2005 went on to higher education, 96% to four-year colleges.

The high school is also a regional, and in some cases national, powerhouse in several extracurricular programs. Its quiz bowl team won the National Academic Championship in 2003, and placed among the top six teams at the national tournament in five of the six years between 2000 and 2005. The Science Olympiad and Model United Nations teams have also won numerous accolades, as have the newspapers and yearbook.

Distinctive programs at Horace Greeley include the LIFE school, an alternative school for grades 10-12 located on campus; independent study and senior project options; a child study program linked to an on-site preschool; and a science research program to prepare students for prestigious competitions like the Intel Science Talent Search. Arts and athletic offerings are extensive, and classes are offered in five foreign languages: Spanish, French, Latin, Russian, and, at the LIFE school, Italian. In the 2005-2006 school year, Ancient Greek will be taught for the first time.

The school is named for Horace Greeley, a U.S. presidential candidate and editor of The New York Tribune who made his home in Chappaqua late in life. One of the school's two student newspapers, The Greeley Tribune, is an additional tribute to the newsman. The other paper is The Advocate and the school's yearbook is The Quaker, also the school's mascot.

Other popular student organizations on campus include the umbrella community service group, S.H.A.R.E., S.A.D.D.D. (Students Against Drinking and Drugging while Driving), Alliance for Equality, Students for Social Justice, and Amnesty International, among many others. On Wednesdays, classes are shortened to allow clubs to meet for an hour at the start of the day.

Sports are also popular on campus and among the diverse offerings are varsity programs in baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, field hockey, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, skiing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and cross country, and wrestling. Fox Lane High School, in nearby Bedford, New York, is HGHS's traditional rival in athletics.

Institutions of higher education attended by Greeley graduates

Many Horace Greeley graduates matriculate at top-ranked universities and liberal arts colleges. Cornell University is particularly popular, and usually accepts 10 to 20 graduating seniors; in any given year there are 80 to 90 total Greeley alumni in Cornell's undergraduate and graduate programs. Binghamton University is also a highly popular college choice.

Notable alumni

Horace Greeley High School has had a number of notable alumni, including:

Gordon Macdougall ('78-'79) public school teacher

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