SCHOOL

Administration Dr. John A. Provost, Ed.D.

Northampton High School is a 4-year, public secondary school located in the city of Northampton, Massachusetts. Northampton is a middle income, residential city with a rich cultural life, located in the Connecticut River Valley, twenty miles north of Springfield, Massachusetts. The school population benefits from local educational resources such as Smith College, the University of Massachusetts, Holyoke Community College, and Greenfield Community College. Northampton High School has a professional staff of 75, including four guidance counselors and three administrators. Enrollment for 2016-2017 is 860 students with a senior class of 220. Accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Northampton High School is on a 4x4 Block Schedule with 85 minute periods in a 180 day school year. It is required that all students be fully scheduled, and many seniors have completed most or all of their graduation course and credit requirements before their senior year. Because of this we offer a number of other senior learning opportunities, including off-site internships, teaching assistantships in some of our classes, and work study. Approximately 87% of graduates continue their education, based on a survey of the Class of 2016. www.nhs.northampton-k12.us

Superintendent

Bryan Lombardi Principal

Celeste Malvezzi Associate Principal

Lori Vaillancourt Associate Principal

Counseling Department Lisann Giordano, Chair [email protected]

Karen Hidalgo [email protected]

Sheila Deam [email protected]

Roberta Fydenkevez [email protected]

CURRICULUM A student typically earns 8 credits each year. Generally, a student schedule includes two to three core subjects and one or two electives each semester. All courses are college preparatory unless designated as Honors, Advanced Placement, or Developmental. A total of 28 credits are required for graduation, including 4 credits of English, 3 credits each of Social Studies, Mathematics and Sciences, and 1 credit of Wellness. An additional 2 credits must be earned from either Math, Science, Social Studies, English, or World Language. AP courses are offered in English Language, English Literature, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, US History, European History, Psychology, Microeconomics, Calculus, Statistics, Spanish Language, and French Language. Honors level courses are offered in English 2, Chemistry, Geometry, Integrated Math 2, Integrated Math 3, PreCalculus, US History, Spanish 4, French 4, Latin 4, and Advanced Art. Dual Enrollment and Smith College: Qualifying juniors and seniors may take courses at area community colleges or at Smith College. Students who take courses at the community colleges are considered dual-enrolled, and will receive college credit. Students taking courses at Smith College are not matriculated at the college and will not receive a Smith transcript or college credit. Smith College grades are reported to the high school, and are entered on the Northampton High School transcript; students receive high school credit for these courses. Northampton High School uses Naviance to submit school documents whenever possible.

GRADE POINT AVERAGE An unweighted grade point average is computed for the Class of 2017. With the exception of Developmental courses, all graded courses are included in the calculation (Pass/Fail courses are not included). Numerical grades are used. A student’s grade point average is calculated at the end of junior year, at the end of first semester senior year, and at the end of senior year. Northampton High School does not provide individual rank-in-class ratings. Students will receive a P for satisfactory work or an F for unsatisfactory work in the following courses (these are not calculated in the GPA): Internship, Peer Tutoring, Teacher Assistant, Work Study. GPA for transfer students is calculated on Northampton High School grades only. Honors Listed on Senior Transcripts: National Honor Society: GPA of 3.4 or above AP Scholar Status; NMSQT Commended Status GPA in Top 20% of Class (unweighted)

GRADING NumericalGrade

94 – 100 90 – 93 87 – 89 84 – 86 80 – 83 77 – 79 74 – 76 70 – 73 67 - 69 64 – 66 60 - 63 Below 60

Grade Points

(A) (A-) (B+) (B) (B-) (C+) (C) (C-) (D+) (D) (D-) (F)

4.0 3.7 3.3 3.0 2.7 2.3 2.0 1.7 1.3 1.0 0.7 0

Advanced Placement Statistics: Eng Lit

Eng Lang

Micro Euro- Psych US Hist Econ Hist

85

129

52

28

31

3.2

3.3

3.1

3.0

5

13

24

4

4

20

35

16

3

29

30

2

17

1

6

Number of Exams Average scores Score of:

Frn Span Lang Lang

Chem Phys C: E&M

Phys Phys C: 1 Mech

Phys

45

29

29

23

11

19

19

3.1

3.8 4.2

3.5

4.2

3.0

2.6

3.3

3.7

32

8

3

18

7

16

3

5

5

8

7

11

4

16

11

5

5

2

3

6

15

7

3

10

1

11

4

6

7

4

6

6

6

4

14

10

2

3

1

4

4

3

2

2

5

4

1

4

1

2

Calc AB

Stat

42

43

46

10

3.0

3.5

4.6

1

13

9

11

16

11

35

14

5

2

1

Bio

7

2

AP Scholar Awards for scores of 3 or above: 2015-Jan. 2016 SAT Number tested: 186 (87%)

Scholar (3 exams) - 32 Scholar with Honor (4 exams) - 18 Scholar with Distinction (5 or more exams) - 61

Average Critical Reading Mean: 586

National Scholar (4 or higher on 8 or more exams) - 11

Average Math Mean: 576 Average Writing Mean: 558 ACT

National Merit Scholarship Program, Class of 2016:

Number tested: 49

Semi-finalists: 2; Finalists: 1

Average composite score: 29.1

Commended Students: 20

Follow-up Study of Graduates:

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

Number of Graduates

224

215

211

223

206

231

Four-Year College

67%

75%

66%

66%

62%

66%

Two-Year College

20%

14%

14%

20%

22%

22%

Gap or Post-grad Year

1%

3%

5%

<1%

4%

2%

Employment

3%

1.5%

5%

3%

6%

4%

Military

1%

<1%

1.5%

0

<1%

1%

Vocational

1%

1%

.5%

<1%

<1%

1%

Other

7%

5%

8%

10%

5%

4%

Students in the Class of 2016 were accepted at the following colleges and universities: Agnes Scott College American International College American University Anna Maria College Assumption College Babson College Bard College Barnard College Baruch College of the CUNY Bates College Bay Path University Bay State College Becker College Beloit College Bennington College Bentley University Binghamton University Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brandeis University Bridgewater State University Brooklyn College of the CUNY Brown University Bryant University Bryn Mawr College Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Centenary College Central Connecticut State Univ Champlain College Chapman University City College of New York CUNY Clark University Clarkson University Colby College Colorado College Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell University Curry College Delaware Valley University Dickinson College Drew University Drexel University Eastern Nazarene College Eckerd College Elms College Elon University Emerson College Emmanuel College Emory University Endicott College Fairfield University Fisher College Fitchburg State University

Florida Institute of Technology Fordham University Framingham State University Franklin and Marshall College Franklin Pierce University George Mason University Gettysburg College Golden State Baptist College Goucher College Grand Canyon University Greenfield Community College Grinnell College Hamilton College Hampshire College Harvard University Hobart and William Smith Colleges Hofstra University Holyoke Community College Hunter College of the CUNY Indiana University at Bloomington Ithaca College James Madison University Keene State College Kenyon College Knox College Lafayette College Lake Forest College Landmark College Lasell College Lawrence University Lehigh University Lesley University Lewis & Clark College Long Island University, Brooklyn Loyola Marymount University Macalester College Marist College Marquette University Marymount Manhattan College Marymount University Mass College of Art and Design Mass College of Liberal Arts McDaniel College McGill University Medgar Evers Coll of the CUNY Merrimack College Miami University, Oxford Michigan State University Middlebury College Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College Muhlenberg College New England College New York University Nichols College North Carolina Central University Northeastern University Northern Kentucky University

Oberlin College Occidental College Pace University, New York City Philadelphia University Plymouth State University Purchase College SUNY Queens College of the CUNY Queens University of Charlotte Quinnipiac University Randolph College Regis College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island College Rochester Institute of Technology Roger Williams University Rollins College Rutgers University-New Brunswick Saint Michael's College Salem State University Salve Regina University Sarah Lawrence College Savannah Coll of Art and Design Sch of the Art Institute of Chicago Scripps College Seton Hall University Siena College Simmons College Skidmore College Smith College So New Hampshire University Springfield College Springfield Technical Comm Coll St. Lawrence University Stanford University Stonehill College Stony Brook University Suffolk University SUNY Albany SUNY Buffalo SUNY Delhi SUNY New Paltz SUNY Polytechnic Institute Susquehanna University Syracuse University Temple University The American University of Paris The College of Wooster The Cooper Union The George Washington University The New School The University of Findlay Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University Union College U S Coast Guard Academy Unity College University of California, Santa Cruz

University of Connecticut University of Hartford University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Maine Univ of Maryland, College Park University of Mass, Amherst University of Mass, Boston University of Mass, Dartmouth University of Mass, Lowell University of Michigan University of New England Univ of New Hampshire at Durham Univ of North Carolina at Asheville Univ of N C School of the Arts University of Pittsburgh University of Puget Sound University of Rhode Island University of Rochester University of South Florida, Tampa University of Southern Maine University of St. Andrews University of Toronto University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Wisconsin, Stout Vassar College Villanova University Wagner College Warren Wilson College Wellesley College Wentworth Institute of Technology Wesleyan University Western Michigan University Western New England University Westfield State University Wheaton College MA Widener University Williams College Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester State University