Rye Neck High School is a public
secondary school located in the Village of
Mamaroneck
Mamaroneck ( ) is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States.
The population was 31,758 at the 2020 United States census over 29,156 at the 2010 census. There are two villages contained within the town: Larchmont and the Village of M ...
,
New York and the Town of
Rye,
New York. It is part of the
Rye Neck Union Free School District
The Rye Neck Union Free School District is the school district created to serve the public education needs of parts of Mamaroneck and Rye, New York.
It serves the part of the Village of Mamaroneck that is within the Town of Rye and part of the ...
and is connected to Rye Neck Middle School. Rye Neck High School offers 25
Advanced Placement classes as well as many electives such as robotics, journalism, and video production.
Sports
*In 2017 the Rye Neck Boys Varsity Soccer team won the Section 1 Class B championship. The team advanced to the regional final, falling to Center Morriches.
*Rye Neck High School was ranked #140 on ''
Newsweek
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''s 2015 list of the Best High Schools in America
*Rye Neck High School was second runner-up for ''
USA Weekend
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''s 2007 "Showstopper Contest" for best high school musical, with their performance of
''Thoroughly Modern Millie''. This beat out over 700 other entries.
*Four students from Rye Neck High School competed on ''The Challenge'' on News12 Westchester.
*Rye Neck Varsity Boys Soccer '09-'10 have won the Section 1 Class B Championship with a 3 to 1 victory over Edgemont but fell to 2–1 loss in their Regional Final, which was the farthest they have been in over a decade.
* Rye Neck Varsity Boys Soccer '10-'11 made it all the way to sectional finals(class B) for the 3rd year in a row.
*Rye Neck's High School Mock trial team has won numerous state championships and regional championships in recent years.
*In 2020, it was announced that long time Rye Neck HS Varsity Softball Coach, Joan Spedafino, was selected for induction into the New York State High School Softball Hall of Fame, as part of the Induction Class of 2021. In 2013 Rye Neck's football team won the League and Section 1 Class C Championship, went on to win class C Regional Finals. Played in the Class C State Championship in the Carrier Dome only to lose to New York State perennial power Chenango Forks by the score of 28-27 finishing with a school best 11–1 record.
Notable alumni
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Donna Rubin
Donna Rubin (born October 5, 1959) is an American former professional tennis player. She represented the U.S. at the 1977 Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning a silver medal in doubles with Jodi Appelbaum-Steinbauer, and at the 1981 Maccabiah Gam ...
(born 1959), tennis player
See also
* ''
Immediato v. Rye Neck School District
''Immediato v. Rye Neck School District'', 73 F.3d 454 ( 2d. Cir. 1996) was a Second Circuit Court of Appeals case involving the petitioner, a boy named Daniel Immediato and his parents, Eugene and Diane Immediato, against the respondent, Rye Ne ...
''
References
External links
Rye Neck Union Free School District
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Mamaroneck, New York
Public high schools in Westchester County, New York