overview of Warwick Valley High School
Warwick Valley High School maintains a comprehensive academic and extra-curricular program. Warwick students consistently score well above county, state and national averages on standardized testing. Nearly eighty-five percent of students go on to post-secondary education.
The teaching faculty, support staff, and administration of Warwick Valley High School are currently working together to draft a vision that will shape our school well into the 21st Century. Guided by such important works as Tony Wagner’s The Global Achievement Gap, and supported by our central administration and Board of Education, we are committed to developing dynamic curricular activities that will help our students acquire the “survival skills” currently identified by leading educational theorists. These skills include critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration across networks and leading by influence, agility and adaptability, initiative and entrepreneurship, effective oral and written communication, accessing and analyzing information, and curiosity and imagination. The strides we make in these areas will be measured using data gained from informative assessments like the College and Work Readiness Assessment, an assessment that tests high school students on their skills of critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving, and written communication; skills that are necessary in work and college environments in the 21st century.
In addition to a wide range of Regents level classes, Honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses are offered, as well as, several credit bearing, college-affiliated courses such as the University of Albany's Spanish Credit and Science Research. SUPA (Syracuse University Project Advance) courses and an active Gifted Education Service program are also available. Various programs are offered by our area BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services), which address numerous occupational opportunities for students.
Combined with the rigorous academic standards, the high school boasts more than fifty-five athletic teams and a wide variety of dramatic, musical, literary, service and student government organizations. At Warwick Valley High School we are committed to engaging all students in life-long learning and providing a high quality educational experience.
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statement of philosophy
Click here to read the Warwick Valley High School Statement of Philosophy.
