Grosse Pointe North High School is a public high school in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. North is a four-year comprehensive high school with an enrollment of around 1,400 and expected 2016 graduating class of 350. Classes are in session for 182 days per year and the school day is from 8:00 AM to 3:05 PM.
The principal is Kate Murray; she won the 2015 Educators Voice Award.[7] The assistant principals are Katy Vernier, Michelle Davis, and Geoffrey Harris Young. Davis is also the school's athletic director.[8]
North consistently ranks among the nation's best high schools.
North is ranked the 11th best public high school in Michigan on the 2017 Niche rankings.[9]
On The Washington Post's list of most challenging high schools, North is #14 in Michigan.[10]
Newsweek's list of top high schools places North #487 nationally.[11]
The school opened in 1968 after Grosse Pointe High School was split into two schools, and Grosse Pointe North took the northern side of Grosse Pointe's students and Northeastern Harper Woods' students. It is a member of the Grosse Pointe Public School System.
Three elementary schools, Ferry, Mason, and Monteith, feed into GPNHS. All of the attendance boundary of Parcells Middle School and a section of the boundary of Brownell Middle School coincides with that of GPNHS.[12]
Grosse Pointe North's Radio Astronomy Team, the "RATz", under Ardis Herrold, are credited as being the first high school group to build its own radio telescope from scratch in the United States.[18]
The Quiz Bowl team won the Class A Michigan High School State Championship in 2010[19] and participates in many NAQT tournaments. The team has attended the NAQT National High School Championship tournament (HSNCT).[20]
^"Amendments to Zoning Ordinance Archived December 27, 2016, at the Wayback Machine." Grosse Pointe Shores. Retrieved on January 9, 2017. See "Zoning Map" on PDF p. 24/25
^"Michigan High School Athletic Association". www.mhsaa.com.
^"RATS". Archived from the original on April 10, 2010. Retrieved May 28, 2009.
^"Michigan High School Quiz Bowl State Championship". www.honorscollege.msu.edu. Archived from the original on March 3, 2007.
^"National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC". www.naqt.com. Archived from the original on May 28, 2008.
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