School Profile

Washingtonville High School is a four-year public High School with an enrollment of 1,345 students.

The village of Washingtonville is located in the Hudson River Valley, and boasts the oldest winery in North America.

The Washingtonville Central School District encompasses the village itself as well as many surrounding areas. Three elementary schools, one middle school, and a renovated high school serve the District’s 3,757 students.

Beginning in September 1999, Washingtonville High School utilized the 4X4 block schedule. To meet changing standards, beginning in September 2011, Washingtonville High School implemented an A/B block scheduling format. In simple terms, this format has the student taking up to eight full-year courses every other day for 85 minutes each. Exceptions exist for our Physical Education, CTEC, Advanced Placement, Music, and Army JROTC programs.

Class of 2020 (381 Graduates)...86% entering college; 57% attending four year colleges; 29% attending two year colleges; 9% entering the job market; 4% entering military service and other.

The Guidance and Counseling Department, staffed by six counselors, two psychologists, and two social workers, provides both day-to-day and long-term counseling, oversees student schedules and cumulative records, offers parent/guardian meetings, administers standardized college and career assessment tests and the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, conducts an annual Financial Aid Workshop and numerous specific interest programs throughout the regular school year. Counselors follow their counselees through all four years of high school, using an alphabetical breakdown.

W.H.S. is an academic high school with a wide variety of courses and electives offered to meet a student’s needs. Students graduating from W.H.S. have the opportunity to earn a CDOS credential, local high school diploma, a New York State Regents endorsed diploma, or a New York State Regents endorsed diploma with Advanced Designation. Vocational Education is available to students through the Orange/Ulster BOCES Regional Vocational Technical Center. Academic programs are offered at the following levels:

• Advanced Placement - AP
• Dual Enrollment
• Accelerated/Enriched - A/E
• Regents/College Preparatory - R

Advanced Placement courses are offered in English Literature, US History, Calculus AB and BC, Biology, and Environmental Science. College credit can also be earned through Syracuse University Project Advance (SUPA Public Affairs, Writing and Literature, and Forensic Science), SUNY Albany (Advanced Spanish and Spanish 5, Advanced French 4), SUNY Orange (Chemistry, Physics, and Statistics) and Marist College (Macroeconomics, Criminal Justice and Elementary Italian).

Classes of 2021-2024

In addition to passing these courses, students must earn competency on five state exams: Math, Science, Global History, US History and English. Additional state exams in Math, Science and Foreign Language must be passed in order to earn an Advanced Regents Diploma.

* Students may also replace the three credit Foreign Language requirement with five credits of Art or Career/ Technical Education.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, transcripts and graduation requirements may change. Transcripts include “EX” for excused exams through New York State for the 2019-2020 school year.
 

Grades are recorded numerically on a 100% scale. A minimum passing grade is 65. High school courses taken in Grade 8 are recorded on the high school transcript for credit and carry credit towards graduation.

90-100 = A
80-89  = B
70-79  = C
65-69  = D
64 or below = F

A student’s GPA and class rank are computed every semester. All credit bearing courses are included in the  GPA computation. Advanced Placement and college credit courses are weighted at a factor of 1.1. All Accelerated, Advanced and Enriched Courses will be weighted at a factor of 1.05. Midterms and final exams are not weighted. Actual class rank is reported for each individual student.

The mean scores for students taking the SAT and ACT Standardized test are:

2019-20 ERW 539 Math 548
2018-19 ERW 542 Math 547
2017-18 Crit Read 549 Math 541

2018-19 ACT Composite Average  - 22.3
2017-18 ACT Composite Average  - 22.5
2016-17 ACT Composite Average - 22.7
 

Washingtonville High School is eager to recognize students that achieve academic success. These students are recognized through the use of two honor rolls, the National Honor Society, and student’s awards and recognition.

W.H.S. has also adopted an Academic and Behavioral Eligibility Program, for all co-curricular activities. Its intention is to encourage academic and behavioral success for the students of WHS.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of our clubs and sports are not running on a regularly scheduled basis for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 school years.