West Chester Henderson High School (Pennsylvania)

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Location
West Chester B. Reed Henderson High School

West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Information
Principal	Marc Bertrando
Students	1,950
Type	High School
Grades	9-12
Athletics	Division I Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association
Mascot	Warrior
Established	1866
Homepage	Official Website

Henderson High School is named after B. Reed Henderson and is one of the three high schools (Henderson, East, and Rustin) in the West Chester Area School District. It was one of the original high schools in the district and is located in the borough of West Chester. Henderson has recently finished an ongoing renovation of the entire school, much to the delight of its students, and additional athletic fields, including a new turf, are coming soon. Marc Bertrando is the current principal and has led Henderson to achieve outstanding success in academics, athletics, music, and drama productions.

1 Mission Statement
2 Accomplishments
3 Notable Alumni
4 References

[edit] Mission Statement

The mission of Henderson High School, a borough school embracing the pride and diversity of its heritage, is to educate all students to achieve their personal best so that they develop into responsible, contributing citizens by fostering individual growth and life-long learning, creating varied learning experiences, integrating the rich resources of our community, and establishing high expectations for all.

Objectives:

-All students will demonstrate proficiency in state and district standards or meet the goals of their individualized learning plans.

-Each student will successfully complete a course of study that reflects his or her personal best in academics and extra curricular activities.

-All students will achieve personal excellence by consistently demonstrating the character traits and behaviors necessary to be responsible, respectful, and contributing citizens in the Henderson community.

Tactics:

-We will actively increase family and community participation and involvement in achieving our mission and objectives.
-We will develop and implement plans to provide the staff with the time and tools necessary to meet external mandates as well as to personalize instruction to meet students’ needs.
-We will design a system for students, parents, and staff to develop and for students to complete a course of study that reflects each student’s personal best in academics and extra-curricular activities.
-We will develop and implement plans, procedures, and interventions to challenge and inspire our underachieving and at-risk students.
-In order to encourage personal excellence, we will model, reinforce and integrate the character traits necessary to be responsible, respectful, contributing members of our community.
-We will work collaboratively to assure that we implement discipline policies and procedures effectively, efficiently, and consistently throughout the school.

[edit] Accomplishments

Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence from the U.S. Department of Education^[1]

Academics:
Henderson is a host to many successful academic teams including the Academic Team, Science Olympiad, and Physics Olympiad. Henderson also has a great variety of clubs; one of the most popular, the Astronomy Club, has recently acquired a high powered telescope. Other notable academic accomplishments that Henderson is very proud of are one student's perfect score on the SAT and high standardized test scores (the highest in the district are those of Henderson).

Athletics:
Henderson athletic teams are part of the Ches-Mont League. Many of Henderson's sports teams have had successful seasons, won Ches-Monts, and continued into playoffs. These including the soccer teams, the field hockey team, the football team, the tennis teams, the basketball teams, cross country, track and field, and more. Specifically the girls tennis, and track and field teams and the boys basketball team have been Ches-Mont Champs for multiple years. In 2007 the Varsity Hockey team won the Flyers Cup Championship and were crowned Pennsylvania State Champs at the Class A level with a victory over Penguins Cup winner Freeport.

Marching Band:
Henderson's marching band is also very successful; they have won multiple tournaments. They won the Tournament of Bands ACC Championships in Group 1 in 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2004. They won the Cavalcade of Bands championship in 2007.