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| Hope High School // STC Vocational Program | |
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324 Hope Street , Rhode Island 02906
United States
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| Coordinates | 41°50′05″N 71°24′07″W / 41.83479°N 71.40206°W / 41.83479; -71.40206 |
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| Type | Public Secondary // Vocational |
| Established | 1898 (Vocational 2019) |
| Principal | Matthew Barney |
| Faculty | 68.00 (FTE)[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 (Vocational School 8-12) |
| Enrollment | 725 (2021-22)[1] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 14.69[1] |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Blue |
| Mascot | Blue Wave |
| Website | hopehsbluewave.org www.alumniclass.com/hopehs |
Hope High School is a specialist high school in the East SideofProvidence, Rhode Island, U.S. operated by Providence Public School District. It was founded in 1898. Its current building was completed in June 1936.[2]
Since 2003, Hope High School has been partitioned into three semi-independent "communities": Hope High School Arts Community, Hope High School Technology Community, and Hope Leadership Community—each with its own principal. Since June 2009, however, the Leadership Community no longer exists. As of June, 2012, the Arts and Technology communities were merged into one school[citation needed]
The triune system was developed in an attempt to remedy a history of exceptionally low test scores (2008 SAT combined score was 1047, over 900 points lower than Moses Brown School, a private school 2 blocks away) at Hope High School. Many regard Hope High - and the future success or failure of these reforms - as a "litmus test" for educational reform in Rhode Island.[3]
It serves grades 8-12 with a total of 1459 students.
The Providence Public School District is attempting to force Hope onto a standardized six-period schedule, which would take away many of the reforms - longer classes, an extended advisory system, the arts and tech programs, and extensive common planning time - that have helped turn the school around. Students from Hope have been vocal in their protest, rallying at School Board meetings and engaging in a walkout. A group of students declared they are filing a legal challenge against the district's decision on the grounds that it directly violates a state regulation forbidding schools in Rhode Island from decreasing their common planning time.[citation needed]
| Ethnicity | This school | State average |
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| Hispanic | 53% | 16% |
| Black, not Hispanic | 30% | 8% |
| White, not Hispanic | 12% | 71% |
| Asian/Pacific Islander | 5% | 3% |
| American Indian/Alaskan Native | <1% | <1% |
Source: NCES, 2003-2004
Latino Students 100%
Special Education Students 90%
Hope High School won four baseball championships and three football championships between 1918 and 1929. Hope won the 1917, 1928, 1930, 1990, and 1992 state interscholastic outdoor track meet championships. The cross country team was the division two state champions 1988-1992. Hope's soccer team won the Rhode Island division 1 championship in 2006.
In 1938 Hope High's basketball team not only won the RI Schoolboy State Championship, the boys from Hope Street went on to win the New England Basketball Championship hosted in Connecticut. Charles Melay Simon earned all New England Honors to go along with his RI Schoolboy All State Honors.
In the period 1960 through 1963, Hope High's Falkmen (coach Bill Falk) were undefeated in cross-country, indoor and outdoor track competition winning both Division1 and State Championships all 4 years. In the winter of 1961, Hope High teams were Division 1 and State Champions in Basketball, Hockey, and Indoor Track - the three major winter sports at the time.
The 1956, 1960, and 1961 Hope hockey teams, coached by Ed Mullen, were crowned R.I. State champions.
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