Grover Cleveland High School (Queens)

Grover Cleveland High School
Grover Cleveland High School
Address
	21–27 Himrod Street; Ridgewood, New York 11385; United States
Coordinates	40°42′41″N 73°54′32″W
Information
Type	Public secondary
Motto	Unity in Diversity
Established	1931
Principal	Marc Pascente
Faculty	approx. 200
Number of students	approx. 2,450
Color(s)	Black & Gold
Mascot	Tiger
Newspaper	The Grover Cleveland Herald
Website	School website

Grover Cleveland High School is a large, comprehensive high school in Ridgewood, Queens. Grover Cleveland High School, Bayside High School, Samuel J. Tilden High School, Abraham Lincoln High School, John Adams High School, Walton High School, and Andrew Jackson High School were all built during the Great Depression from one set of blueprints in order to save money. The school is named after former US president Grover Cleveland.

Extracurricular activities

Sports teams include:

Physics Robotics Science Olympiad][1] Science Research Debate (won the 2009 NYC Lincoln-Douglas Debate Championships in the Rising Star Tier)

Cheryl James – singer from Grammy Award winning Salt-N-Pepa
Jim Gordon – sportscaster
Marisol Maldonado – model
Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. – Medal of Honor USMC veteran
Rosie Perez – award winning actress, activist
Emanuel Xavier – award winning poet, LGBTQ activist
Bob Sheppard – Yankee Stadium announcer
Joe Massino – "The Last Don," final head of the Bonanno Crime Family
Julius LaRosa – singer and entertainer
Catherine Nolan - Assemblywoman of District 37 Ridgewood, Queens
Salvatore Vitale- former underboss of the Bonnano Crime Family
Marta Nadgorska - winner of The Voice of Poland
Joshua Hong - member of Seventeen (South Korean band)
Gerard Yantz - member of the United States field handball squad which played at the 1936 Summer Olympics

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