Stroudsburg High School

Stroudsburg High School is a public high school located at 1100 West Main Street in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The school's mascot is the Mountaineer. The school is part of the Stroudsburg Area School District.

Administration

The principal is Mr. Jeffrey Sodl. The assistant principals are Mrs. Wanda Lesoine and Mr. James W. Burke.

Academics

The PSSA is the state assessment test for Pennsylvania schools. All students in 11^th grade are required to take this test. Students at Stroudsburg High School scored 73% above proficient in reading, 95% in writing, and 49% in math.

Due to the No Child Left Behind policy, Stroudsburg High School is currently under Corrective Action II.

The school consistently sends several students to the prestigious Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts. Attendees for the 2007 year included Ricardo Morales and Alicia Salvadeo for fiction writing and Kelly Dougher for poetry writing.

Rivalry

Stroudsburg High School's rival is East Stroudsburg South High School. Each year, this rivalry is expressed in the annual Turkey Day Game. The competition has gained attention of Sports Illustrated.

Extracurriculars

The school boasts over 20 extracurricular activities. These activities include:

*Key Club
*Mock Trial
*Science Olympiad
*Chess Team
*National Honor Society
*Future Business Leaders of America

Athletics

With over 21 varsity athletics, Stroudsburg offers a wealth of opportunity for involvement.

chool Newspaper

The school newspaper, The Mountaineer, is a recipient of the Pennsylvania School Press Association Gold Award for Overall Excellence. Its staff consistently receives high-ranking awards for its in-depth coverage of school and teen related topics. Its current adviser is Mr. Matthew Sobrinski. In the past, it was funded entirely through local advertisers and sold for fifty cents to the student body. However, in the 2007-2008 school year, school funding has allowed the staff to disseminate the periodical to every student in the building.

Five issues are typically printed each year through the local newspaper, the Pocono Record. The front, center, and back are full color pages.

Marching Band

The high school marching band is known for its rejection of traditional marching band and drum corps values. Under the direction of Mr. Harold Cassady, the band almost never takes part in adjudications as an official competitor, choosing to perform, as they say, "for the Friday night football crowd," playing rock and pop songs people recognize, as opposed to classical, performance music. Along with the promotion school spirit, the Stroudsburg Marching Band plays when the opposing team is on Offense in order to drown out the voices on field, causing at least 5 fumbles, interceptions, etc. per football game.

The band has performed at USSBA shows at Giants Stadium multiple times, several as the closing group in festival performance. One member shares their thoughts on their 2004 performance:

"It was incredible. The whole show was just... really pumped, and we could tell we got the audience pumped. We had a couple thousand people dancing and singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody, and that's an incredible feeling."

New Building Controversy

With an influx of new students, the district has expressed the need for a new building. Residents are debating whether the current building should be renovated or whether a new building should be built to accommodate this growth.

References

* [http://www.stroudsburgsd.org District Website]
*http://www.poconorecord.com