New Milford High School (Connecticut)

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New Milford High School
Location
377 Danbury Road New Milford, Connecticut 06776 United States
Information
Enrollment	1,235[1] (2005-06)
Faculty	93.9 (on FTE basis)[1]
Student:teacher ratio	13.2
Type	Public
Grades	9 to 12
Mascot	Dragon
Team name	Green Wave

New Milford High School is a four-year public, coeducational high school in the historic town of New Milford, Connecticut, famous for past residents Bob Costas, Joan Rivers, and Henry Kissinger, and as the filming location of Hollywood motion picture “Mr. Deeds.” Currently, approximately 1,200 students attend the school. Although a majority of the students attending the school are from New Milford, some students are from the nearby towns of Sherman and Washington. The school is located at 377 Danbury Road in the town of New Milford, CT and is a part of the New Milford School District.

From September 11, 2001 to October 2, 2006, the New Milford High cross country team won 75 consecutive "dual meets" (regular season meet). In 2004 and 2005, the New Milford High Cross Country team won the New England Championship (pitting teams from Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire against one another). The team placed first out of 450+ competitors. For the next three years, the team placed fifth in the championship (2006, 2007, 2008).

The school’s athletic nickname is the Green Wave, named after the surrounding green hills of Litchfield County. The school's mascot is a dragon.

Construction on the new school was finished in 2000 after the town's municipal authorities voted to reorganize the public school system. Changes included redefining elementary school as K-3rd grade, introducing a new intermediate school, redefining the middle school as 7th-8th grade, and construction of a new high school. These changes sparked a controversy over the amount of funding taxpayers would need to supply for the changes to be completed. For this reason, the pool in the original plan for the new high school was never constructed. To this day, upperclass students of the school sometimes jokingly respond to freshman students' inquiries about the pool by saying "the pool's on the fourth floor," despite the building's three-floor structure.

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