Rye High School is a public high school in Rye, New York.HistoryThe school is accredited by the New York State Department of Education and the Middle States Association. The school is ranked the 96th best high school in the U.S according to Newsweeks Ranking of the top 500 high schools in the US as of 2015.Due to the abundance of garnets discovered during construction of the school, the precious gem became the adopted mascot.CampusThe High School itself was built during the great depression, as part of a public works project aimed to giving people work. Rye High School is designed in the style of Gothic architecture, constructed with dark stones, small recessed windows, and sloping roofs.Recently, there has been a 17 million dollar initiative to modernize the school by constructing an entirely new science wing adjacent to the auxiliary gym on the north end of the campus. The new building will contain twelve labs, workrooms, and numerous new facilities, among other things. The project is slated to be complete in 2015,.As for now, the construction is causing a large amount of headaches between the students and the faculty, as they now have to fight for parking spaces because most of the available parking has been overtaken by the construction. To alleviate this problem, the high school has constructed a faculty parking lot off of campus, next to the main road that runs through the city of Rye.The high amount of dust and debris caused by the construction is also beginning to raise health concerns regarding the air quality around the school, as well as whether students with health problems should be in school while construction goes on.The campus hosts a football stadium with an outdoor track and spots for field evens to be conducted, a baseball/softball field, practice fields for various sports (including lacrosse, soccer, field hockey and cross country), a small brook separating the field from the rest of the school, parking lots, lots of grass, and a few trees.
