Mission Statement

Programs
The Performing And Visual Arts Education program at NRHS is a unique program devoted to:
Preparing the talented students to meet the demands necessary for their success, both academically and professionally, and by providing them with a broader knowledge, scope, insight, & balance in a comprehensive program of creative & artistic works.
Acknowledging their heritage in the New Rochelle community through a curriculum which reflects and expresses this diversity.
Viewing themselves as an integral component in the creative process.
Empowering them to become leaders in the arts by developing their creativity, self-esteem, respect, mind and body, and their role as artists.
The different majors offered are Visual Arts, Theater, Vocal, Orchestra, Band and Dance.//;[oipjoino

PAVE
New Rochelle High School's three-year program offers students the opportunity to participate in the community of scientific research and scholarship as part of their high school experience. In addition to class, formal individual meetings are held once a week. Students select a topic of interest and explore this topic through library research, person to person conversations with research scientists throughout the country, and telecommunication to research and college libraries. Students develop sophisticated data collecting and lab skills by completing a literature search, formulating a research question, articulating hypotheses, collecting and analyzing data, and presenting their findings to a bona fide scientific audience (e.g., The Intel Talent Search, the New York State Science Symposium, and local and regional science fairs).

Science Research

The school's Academic Team is #14 in the nation after the 2007 National Academic Championship.
The Science Olympiad is #1 in the region.
The Model Congress also does well. Alma Mater

Elia Kazan '26 - Academy Award winning Director
Henry Heimlich '37 - Inventor, Heimlich Maneuver
Don Hewitt '40 - Producer, 60 Minutes
Jerome Kohlberg, Jr. '43 - Billionaire, co-founder of Private Equity group KKR
Louis Jones '50 - Olympic Gold Medalist
Louis Rukeyser '50 - TV Personality, Economic Commentator
Jesse Arnelle '50 - football and basketball star at Penn State University
Drew S. Days, III '53 - Solicitor General of the United States, Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Leslie H. Gelb '55 - President, Council on Foreign Relations
Kenneth Blanchard '57 - Author
Johnny Counts '58 - played professional football for New York Giants in NFL
Richard Roundtree '61 - John Shaft (Yes, that Shaft)
Butch Harmon '62 - one of the top ranked golf instructors in the United States and former coach of Tiger Woods
Andrea Mitchell '63 - Journalist
Russell T. Lewis '65 - Former CEO and President of The New York Times Company (1997-2004)
Alan Menken '67 - Composer, Lyricist
Gloria Borger '70 - Gonzo Journalist
Christopher Edley, Jr. '70 - Dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Michael Kaiser '71 - President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Stuart Calvin Lord '78 - Dean of The Tucker Foundation, Associate Provost of Dartmouth College
Rachel Vail '84 - Children's Author
Clifford J. Levy '85 - Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist
Cristina Teuscher '96 - Olympic Gold Medalist
Ray Rice '05 - Rutgers University Running Back
Fernando Tejeda '98- Doctor of Dental Surgery