Brighton High School (Rochester, New York)

Brighton High School
Address
Map
1150 Winton Road

Rochester
,
New York
14618

United States
Coordinates43°7′24″N 77°34′00″W / 43.12333°N 77.56667°W / 43.12333; -77.56667
Information
School districtBrighton Central School District
PrincipalThomas Hall
Teaching staff106.56 (FTE)[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,243 (2022–23)[1]
Average class size290
Student to teacher ratio11.66[1]
Color(s)     
PublicationGalaxy
NewspaperTrapezoid
YearbookCrossroads
Graduates96%
Websitebhs.bcsd.org

Brighton High School, commonly abbreviated BHS, is a public high school located in Brighton, an incorporated town adjacent to the southeast border of Rochester, New York, United States. It offers a comprehensive curriculum for students in grades 9–12. It is part of the Brighton Central School District.

Academics

The class of 2015 graduated 296 students. There were eight National Merit Scholarship finalists, eight semi-finalists, and nine commended students. For the class of 2015, about 89% of graduates chose to go onto high education, with the majority going to four-year colleges. Brighton regularly sends numerous graduates to top colleges and universities, including alumni currently at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Harvard University, Williams College, Princeton University, the University of Rochester, the University of Maryland, Stanford University, Georgetown University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]

In 2015, Brighton offered Advanced Placement (AP) classes in numerous subjects, including Calculus (AB and BC), Biology, Physics (1, 2, and C), Chemistry, Environmental Science, Economics, Government and Politics, Psychology, United States History, European History, Statistics, Studio Art, English Literature, English Language, Spanish, French, German, and Computer Science.[3]

Performance

Trophy case in the front lobby

The school has appeared on Newsweek magazine's Top 100 Public High Schools list. In 1998, Brighton achieved its highest ranking on the Newsweek list, in 5th place. In 2004, it was ranked 27th in the nation. In 2006, it was placed 96th. In 2007, it was placed 79th, one ahead of Pittsford Mendon High School. In 2008, it was ranked 158, fifth among schools in the Rochester area behind Pittsford Sutherland, Pittsford Mendon, Greece Odyssey and Wilson Magnet. Rankings fluctuate heavily based upon AP exams administered relative to the graduating senior class. In 2010, Brighton was placed 126th.[4]

In 2007, U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked Brighton High School 57th out of 18,790 public high schools. It was the only Monroe County school on the list.[5]

Publications and productions

  • Trapezoid is Brighton High School's monthly school newspaper. Sections include news, feature, opinion, in depth and sports.[6] The newspaper has repeatedly received a number of awards, including first place in the Bertram Freed Memorial Award Competition, and New York's Best Newspaper and Best Online Publication from the Empire State School Press Association for several years in a row.[7]
  • Crossroads, Brighton High School's yearbook, was founded in 1933. It is distributed at BHS's annual Springfest.[8]
  • Galaxy, created in 1954, is Brighton's art and literary magazine. Galaxy continues its tradition of holding meetings at students' homes on Sunday evenings.[9] Galaxy is entirely student-created, with the help of advisor and art teacher Debra Burger and is printed locally. In 2009, the magazine received a First Place with Special Merit award from the American Scholastic Press Association for its article on French sub ordinance. That same year, Jessy Randall (BHS class of 1988) published a young adult novel about Galaxy, The Wandora Unit.[10] Galaxy received the Gold/All New York Award, as well as the Award for Originality from the annual ESSPA (Empire State Scholastic Press Association) Conference in 2011. Many individual Galaxy members won Gold awards in their respective fields at this conference as well.[11]
  • The Morning Show began in the 1986–1987 school year with Brighton Beat, a precursor to The Morning Show. This show included one news and one interview show each week. In 1991, The Morning Show was officially created at BHS by producers Bennett Killmer and Joe Nussbaum, with the help of a teacher, Richard Tschorke. Nussbaum went on to direct the short film George Lucas in Love and the feature films Sleepover and Sydney White starring Amanda Bynes. Tschorke was the advisor to the club for twenty years, later to be succeeded by Chris French as the new club advisor. The show originally only had a few small cameras. Since then, it has grown to include two Blackmagic Design studio cameras, a Behringer Audio Mixer, a graphics program from Datavideo called CG-500 and a Blackmagic Design ATEM 1 M/E Switcher.[12] The show started streaming over the internet exclusively starting in the 2015-2016 school year.[13]

Extracurricular activities

Many of Brighton's extracurricular teams have performed well in competitions:

  • Brighton Science Olympiad
    • The team was regional champion from 2010 to 2014.
    • In the year 2014, Brighton medalled in every single event.[14]
  • Brighton Math Team[15]
  • Brighton FBLA [16]
  • Brighton Envirothon[17]
  • Brighton Chess Team [18]
    • The team was the upstate NY champions in 2022 and 2023.[19]
    • Brighton was also the 2023 central NY champion,[20] with a 4th place finish in the state scholastic championship.[21]
  • Brighton Masterminds
    • The team was named Rochester regional champion in 1995, 1997, 2005, 2014, 2015, and 2019.[22]
    • In 2014 and 2015, the team placed second in the state championship meet.[23]

Brighton offers other extracurriculars, including Mock Trial, Prepworks Tutoring, Catalysts for Change, Gender and Sexuality Alliance Club, Climate Club, Brighton On Board (a board game focused club), Friends of Rachel, and Bruins e-Sports Club.[24]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ a b c "BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  2. ^ "School Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-15.
  3. ^ "BHS Program of Studies" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
  4. ^ [1] [dead link‍]
  5. ^ "Brighton named national Gold Medal HS". Democrat and Chronicle. 1 December 2007. Retrieved 1 December 2007.
  6. ^ "Trapezoid Website". Archived from the original on 2002-07-15.
  7. ^ "Brighton High School publications earn honors". Brighton Pittsford Post. November 5, 2010. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  8. ^ "Crossroads Website". Archived from the original on 2004-04-26.
  9. ^ "Galaxy Website". Archived from the original on 2013-06-29.
  10. ^ "Goodreads page for The Wandora Unit".
  11. ^ "Brighton Performing Arts". Archived from the original on 2010-06-16.
  12. ^ "BHS Morning Show Parts List". Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  13. ^ "The BHS Morning Show Homepage". Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  14. ^ "Brighton High School". Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  15. ^ "Monroe County Math League 2013-2014" (PDF). Monroe County Math League. February 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  16. ^ http://www.nysfbla.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2013-SLC-Award-Winners.pdf[permanent dead link‍]
  17. ^ "2013 New State Envirothon Score Sheet" (PDF). www.nysenvirothon.net. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  18. ^ "Rochester Chess League 1". Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  19. ^ "BHS Chess Team Wins Championship". www.bcsd.org. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  20. ^ "US Chess MSA - Cross Table for 8TH ANNUAL CENTRAL NY OPEN! (Event 202210230162)". www.uschess.org. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  21. ^ "New York State Scholastic ChampionshipsTeams for Highschool Championship". chessevents.com. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  22. ^ "Championships". www.nymasterminds.com.
  23. ^ "Archived Document". Archived from the original on 2014-08-14. Retrieved 2015-01-28.
  24. ^ "BHS CLUBS 2021 - 2022" (PDF). Brighton Central Schools. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-02-07. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  25. ^ ""Richard Ben Cramer, award-winning journalist and Brighton native, dies," The Associated Press, Tuesday, January 8, 2013". Democrat and Chronicle. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  26. ^ "Brighton native Tom Cross wins film editing Oscar-D&C Article-February 23, 2015 | The Housing Council at PathStone". www.thehousingcouncil.org. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  27. ^ Arnold, Alexis (22 May 2018). "From Brighton High School to Wakanda: Winston Duke remembers his days in Rochester". WHAM. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  28. ^ "BSAA/BHS Alumni Hall of Fame". Brighton Schools Alumni Association. Archived from the original on 2015-08-10.
  29. ^ Kramer, David (October 23, 2018). "Brighton High School loses one of its two great sportscasters, Hank Greenwald '53". Talker of the Town. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
  30. ^ "The Washington Post wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on Russian interference and the Senate race in Alabama". The Washington Post. April 16, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  31. ^ Bio Jess Klein Archived September 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  32. ^ Thaler-Carter, Ruth (July 24, 2015). "Congrats to a BHS alum!". Democrat and Chronicle.
  33. ^ "Archived Document" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  34. ^ "10 Rochester connections to Saturday Night Live". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
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