Grosse Pointe North High School

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.

Grosse Pointe North High School
Address
707 Vernier Road

Grosse Pointe Woods
,
Michigan
48236-1527

United States of America
Coordinates42.436386°N 82.888350°W / 42.436386; -82.888350
Information
Other namesNorth, Grosse Pointe North, GPN, GPNHS
TypeComprehensive public high school
Opened1968 (1968)
StatusCurrently operational
School districtGrosse Pointe Public School System
NCES District ID2625740[1]
SuperintendentDr. Gary C. Niehaus
CEEB code231-801[2]
NCES School ID262574006230[3]
PrincipalKate Murray
Teaching staff76.54 FTE[3]
Grades9-12
GenderCo-educational
Enrollment1,364[3] (2017-2018)
 • Grade 9306[3]
 • Grade 10356[3]
 • Grade 11340[3]
 • Grade 12354[3]
 • Ungraded8[3]
Student to teacher ratio17.82[3]
Schedule typeSemester
Schedule7 50-minute periods
Area342,148 square feet[4]
Campus typeSuburban
Color(s) Green  and  Gold 
Song"Grosse Pointe North Alma Mater"
Athletics conferenceMacomb Area Conference - White division
MascotNorseman
NicknameNorsemen
RivalGrosse Pointe South High School Blue Devils
AccreditationCognia
ACT average22.5[2]
PublicationHarbinger (art and literary magazine)
NewspaperNorth Pointe (print)
 North Pointe Now (online)
YearbookValhalla
Communities servedGrosse Pointe
Harper Woods
Feeder schoolsParcells Middle School
  • Students from all elementary school zones[5]

Brownell Middle School

  • Students only from Monteith elementary school zone[5]
Websitemi01000971.schoolwires.net/gpnorth
Last updated: November 11, 2019

The principal is Kate Murray; she won the 2015 Educators Voice Award.[6] The assistant principals are Katy Vernier, Michelle Davis, and Geoffrey Harris Young. Davis is also the school's athletic director.[7]

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.[8]
  • On The Washington Post's list of most challenging high schools, North is #14 in Michigan.[9]
  • Newsweek's list of top high schools places North #487 nationally.[10]

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.

Communities served and feeder patterns

The school serves the following communities:[11] all of Grosse Pointe Woods,[12] the GPPSS section of Harper Woods,[13] a small northwest section of Grosse Pointe Farms,[14] and the Wayne County section of Grosse Pointe Shores.[15]

Four elementary schools, Ferry, Mason, Monteith, and Poupard, 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.[11]

Athletics
Grosse Pointe North athletic field

Boys' sports include: baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, sailing, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and wrestling. Girls sports include: basketball, cheerleading, crew, cross country, dance team, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, sailing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. Grosse Pointe North has won numerous state championship titles: Baseball (1980, 2006), Girls' Basketball (2008), Boys' Cross Country (1973, 1975, 1976, 1982), Boys' Hockey (2001, 2002), Girls' Lacrosse (1999) and Girls' Swimming & Diving (1999).[16]

Extracurricular clubs

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.[17]

The Quiz Bowl team won the Class A Michigan High School State Championship in 2010[18] and participates in many NAQT tournaments. The team has attended the NAQT National High School Championship tournament (HSNCT).[19]

Grosse Pointe North's Chemistry Club conducts research on the Flint water crisis with the chemistry department at the University of Detroit Mercy. They were the first high schoolers to present at a local and national American Chemical Society conference in 2017 and 2018,[20][21] publishing their work shortly after.[22] The group was also the first high school group to win a travel grant from the society to travel to the 256th national conference in 2018.[23] The group also sent one of the only all-girls rocketry teams to the national Team America Rocketry Challenge in 2017, 2018, and 2019.[24]

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Grosse Pointe Public Schools". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  2. "school profile 2015". Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  3. "Search for Public Schools - Grosse Pointe North High School (262574006230)". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  4. "North - building map". Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  5. "GPPSS-DistrictMap" (PDF). Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  6. Desjarlais, Ishmael. "Educators Voice Awards 2015". www.bammyawards.org.
  7. "Administration / Administrators". gpschools.schoolwires.net.
  8. "Explore Grosse Pointe North High School". Niche. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
  9. "Michigan Schools - The Washington Post". apps.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
  10. "America's Top High Schools 2016". Newsweek. August 11, 2016. Retrieved December 1, 2016.
  11. "District Map." Grosse Pointe Public School System. Retrieved on January 8, 2017.
  12. "Current Zoning Map." Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan. Retrieved on January 9, 2017.
  13. "Zoning Map." Harper Woods, Michigan. Retrieved on January 9, 2017.
  14. "Zoning Map." City of Grosse Pointe Farms. Retrieved on January 8, 2017.
  15. "Amendments to Zoning Ordinance." Grosse Pointe Shores. Retrieved on January 9, 2017. See "Zoning Map" on PDF p. 24/25
  16. "Michigan High School Athletic Association". www.mhsaa.com.
  20. "Grosse Pointe North student discovers Flint water solution in chemistry class". FOX 2 Detroit. April 13, 2018. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  21. "Kosmas, Steve". Beyond Benign. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
  22. Pothoof, Justin; Ruprecht, Michal; Sliwinski, Ben D.; Sosnowski, Ben M.; Fitzgerald, Polly R.; Kosmas, Steven; Benvenuto, Mark A. (September 29, 2018). "Synthesis of "three-legged" tri-dentate podand ligands incorporating long-chain aliphatic moieties, for water remediators, and for isolating metal ions in non-aqueous solution". Physical Sciences Reviews. 3 (11). doi:10.1515/psr-2018-0076.
  23. "Ciba Travel Awards in Green Chemistry". American Chemical Society. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  24. April 25, Mary Anne Brush | on; 2018 (April 26, 2018). "Girl power". Grosse Pointe News. Retrieved January 30, 2021.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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