Английская Википедия:Brandywine High School
Brandywine High School is a public secondary school located near Talleys Corner[1] in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, with a Wilmington postal address.[2][3] Although the school is not within the Wilmington city limits, it does serve some parts of the city north of the Brandywine River.[4] It is a part of the Brandywine School District.[2]
There were 940 students enrolled in the fall for the 2020–2021 school year.[2][5] Rebecca Reggio is the current principal of Brandywine High School.[6]
History
Brandywine High School was established in 1958. Its building was designed by Wilmington architects Whiteside, Moeckel & Carbonell in the International Style and completed in 1959.[7]
Athletics
Brandywine is a member of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA).[8] The Bulldogs compete in Flight B of the Blue Hen Conference with a full slate of teams in all three sports seasons:[9]
Brandywine's sports include: cross country, field hockey, football, soccer, volleyball, cheerleading, basketball, swimming, wrestling, cheerleading, indoor track, baseball, softball, golf, lacrosse, tennis, and track and field.[10]
Recognitions
In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Brandywine #5,392 out of almost 24,000 public schools across the United States[11] and Niche ranked it in the top 50% best public schools for athletes in New Castle County.[12]
The school was recognized by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program for the 1982–1983 school year.[13]
Appearances in media
- First lady Jill Biden spoke from the classroom in which she formerly taught at the school (room 232) for her remote address to the 2020 Democratic National Convention.[14] Biden's husband Joe Biden was in the high school at the moment he formally was nominated for president during the convention.[15]
Notable alumni
- Dexter Boney,[16] former basketball player in the National Basketball Association and Continental Basketball Association
- Dennis Brockenborough, trumpet player for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones from 1990 to 2000
- John Gallagher Jr., Tony Award-winning actor best known for Spring Awakening
- Joan Goodfellow, film, television, and stage actress; mezzo-soprano
- Sean Patrick Thomas, actor
- George Thorogood, musician known for hits such as "Bad to the Bone"
- Christopher Voigt, synthetic biology pioneer and MIT professor
- Ben Warheit, Emmy-nominated actor, comedian, and writer, Late Night with Seth Meyers
Notable faculty
- Jill Biden,[14] Second lady of the United States 2009–2017, first lady of the United States (FLOTUS) 2021–present
References
External links
Шаблон:Education in New Castle County, Delaware
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- ↑ W. Barksdale Maynard, Buildings of Delaware (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008): 32.
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