George F. Baker High School

George F. Baker High School
George F. Baker High School
Address
	NY 17; Tuxedo, New York 10987; United States
Coordinates	41°11′18″N 74°11′06″W
Information
Funding type	Public school
School district	Tuxedo Union Free School District
Principal	Timothee Boulke
Staff	28[1]
Grades	7-12
Gender	Coed
Enrollment	111 (2016-17)[2]
Average class size	18[1]
Student to teacher ratio	14[1]
Language	English
Campus type	Suburban
Colour(s)	Red, white, and black
Athletics	Men - soccer, basketball, wrestling, baseball; women - soccer, volleyball, softball
Athletics conference	Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association
Mascot	Tuxedo Tornado
Rival	S.S. Seward
Communities served	Towns of Tuxedo
Feeder schools	George G. Mason School
Website	George F. Baker High School

George F. Baker High School is the public secondary school educating students in grades 7 through 12 in the Tuxedo Union Free School District. It is located on NY 17 in Tuxedo, New York, United States, near the gates of the village Tuxedo Park.

It educates students from the town of Tuxedo and the village, as well as those from the Greenwood Lake school district in the nearby Town of Warwick. The school imposed a demanding all-Regents curriculum on students before the state Education Department began requiring it.[3]

In 2007 the school's future was seriously challenged when voters in the Greenwood Lake and Warwick districts considered the former's proposal to send its high school students to Warwick instead of Tuxedo. Had it passed, Baker would have lost 80% of its students and the district would have had to consider closing the school and sending its own students to another district's high school, possibly Suffern. Greenwood Lake voters approved the plan, but it was rejected in Warwick.[4]

In 2015 the school enrollment dropped by over 200 to about 80 students, after Greenwood Lake School District ended its contract to send students to Tuxedo. This caused a drop of $2.5 million in the Tuxedo budget. The school planned to expand the Baker school to grades 7-12. Also in 2015, the school's principal and superintendent resigned their positions.[5]

References

"New York State School Report Card, 2006-07, Accountability and Overview Information for George F. Baker High School" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
"GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
"About Our School". George F. Baker Tuxedo High School. 2010. Archived from the original on September 4, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2010.
King, Matt (December 13, 2007). "Warwick voters defeat high school referendum". Times-Herald Record. Ottaway Community Newspapers. Retrieved March 14, 2009.
Easley, Hema (26 August 2015). "Tuxedo high school principal quits week before school starts". Times Herald-Record. GateHouse Media. Retrieved 23 July 2018.

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[School_report_card-1] "New York State School Report Card, 2006-07, Accountability and Overview Information for George F. Baker High School" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2009-03-14.

[2] "GEORGE F BAKER HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 16, 2019.

[school_webpage-3] "About Our School". George F. Baker Tuxedo High School. 2010. Archived from the original on September 4, 2010. Retrieved December 4, 2010.

[Warwick_vote_failure-4] King, Matt (December 13, 2007). "Warwick voters defeat high school referendum". Times-Herald Record. Ottaway Community Newspapers. Retrieved March 14, 2009.

[Easley-5] Easley, Hema (26 August 2015). "Tuxedo high school principal quits week before school starts". Times Herald-Record. GateHouse Media. Retrieved 23 July 2018.