White Plains High School

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White Plains High School is a high school in the White Plains Public Schools system of White Plains, New York, United States.^[5] Built in 1962, it sits on 75 acres and has been expanded. It was selected by the U.S. Department of Education as a School of Excellence in 1986–1987. The school's code of conduct^[6] and state accountability report^[7] are available online.

Demographics

Gender: The student body is 50.11 percent female and 49.89 percent male.^[3]

Race: The student body is 59.55 percent Hispanic, 22.54 percent White, 12.88 percent Black, 3.36 percent Asian, and 1.68 percent other.^[3]

Publications

• Yearbook: The Oracle^[8]
• Newspaper: The Orange^[9]
• Literary magazine: The Roar^[10]

Athletics

The school makes available for its students two gymnasiums, a weight room, a track field and football field (Loucks Field),^[11] a soccer field, baseball and softball fields, tennis courts, and a pool.

White Plains football team won the Section 1 Class AA title in 2013 for the first time in 34 years.

White Plains High School Hall of Fame

Notable inductees:^[12]

• T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1970) – United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees
• David Corn (1977) – author and broadcast journalist
• John Davidson (1959) – versatile singer, actor and entertainer with career spanning more than 55 years, including Broadway musicals, Disney movies, variety, game and talk shows on TV and Las Vegas showrooms
• Robert Malcolm Graham (1963) – Massachusetts State Supreme Court Justice
• Lawrence Otis Graham (1979) – author, attorney and broadcast commentator
• Larry James (1966) – Olympic medal winner
• James J. Jordan (1948) – advertising executive and copywriter (posthumous award)
• Grover "Deacon" Jones (1952) – Major League Baseball player and coach
• Philip Kent (1972) – CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
• Jonathan Larson (1978) – Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright, Rent (posthumous award)
• J. Bruce Llewellyn (1945) – business and civic leader
• Dave Marash (1959) – broadcast journalist
• Craig Masback (1973) – track champion, sports broadcaster, CEO of USA Track & Field
• Art Monk (1976) – NFL wide receiver, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
• Oscar Moore (1956) – U.S. Olympian runner, honored college track & field coach
• Garrick Ohlsson (1966) – international concert pianist
• Jimmy Roberts (1975) – Emmy Award-winning sports journalist and broadcaster
• John Jay Saldi IV (1972) – football player; played more than 100 games over nine seasons in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the Chicago Bears; key member of Dallas' Super Bowl Champion (XII) team
• David E. Sanger (1978) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, White House Correspondent for The New York Times
• Richard Schlesinger (1972) – broadcast journalist

Notable alumni

• Sam Bowers – football player
• David Corn – political journalist and author
• Sloane Crosley – author
• Jennifer Damiano – Broadway actress^[13]
• Dan Duryea (1924) – film and television actor^[14]
• Mal Graham – basketball player, 11th overall pick of 1967 NBA draft
• Martha Himmelfarb – Scholar of religion and long-time professor at Princeton University
• Larry James – Olympic gold medalist track athlete
• Grover "Deacon" Jones – retired first baseman for Chicago White Sox
• Sean Kilpatrick (born 1990) – basketball player for Brooklyn Nets and for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Super League
• Jonathan Larson – playwright and composer, best known for creating musical Rent
• Lou Mark – football player
• Matisyahu – Hasidic Jewish reggae musician
• Arthur Monk – NFL wide receiver, Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Dennis Morgan – football player
• Dick Nolan – football player
• Garrick Ohlsson – classical pianist
• Lawrence Otis Graham – attorney, journalist, and author
• Gordon Parks Jr. – film director of Super Fly, son of photographer Gordon Parks Sr.^{[citation needed]}
• Jay Saldi – NFL tight end, Super Bowl champion (Super Bowl X)
• David E. Sanger – White House correspondent for New York Times
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum – computer scientist^[15][16]
• Chris Watson (born 1975) – American-Israeli basketball player
• Sal Yvars – professional baseball player
• Roger S. Gottlieb - philosopher and environmentalist

In film

Scenes from The Beaver, a film directed by Jodie Foster and starring Mel Gibson and Foster, were filmed at the high school in the fall of 2009.^[17] Scenes from the film Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti, were shot at the high school in March 2010.^[18]

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