Gates Chili High School is a secondary school in the Gates Chili Central School District in

Gates, New York Gates is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States. The town is named after General Horatio Gates. The population was 29,167 at the 2020 census. Gates and North Gates are census-designated places within the town. It is a suburb of Roch ...

. It opened in September 1958. , the current principal is Thomas Hammel (interim). Gates Chili High School has a science wing, with an aquatics laboratory and

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study areas, an art and graphic arts wing for the study of classic art as well as technology applications for print and video, a library, a career and counseling center and a

field house Field house or fieldhouse is an American English term for an indoor sports arena or stadium, mostly used for college basketball, volleyball, or ice hockey, or a support building for various adjacent sports fields, e.g. locker room, team room, coac ...

with a gymnasium, fitness center, swimming pool and an indoor track.

Enrollment

As of the 2022–23 school year: 546 male, 584 female

Notable alumni

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(1968), Lead Singer for Foreigner *

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(1970), serial killer * Thom Metzger (1974), writer * Jeff Wittman (1989), former college football player and College Football Hall of Famer * Clint Hurtt (1996), coach for the

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* Yuri Lavrynenko (1996),

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player * Ernest Jackson (2005), former

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wide receiver * Gerald Beverly (2011), basketball player who played overseas *

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(2014), basketball player who plays overseas

References

High schools in Monroe County, New York Public high schools in New York (state) Educational institutions established in 1958 1958 establishments in New York (state) {{NewYork-school-stub