Danbury High School
203-797-4800
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Danbury High School is one of the largest in the state, with nearly 3,000 students. In an effort to help incoming freshmen, the school instituted a Freshman Academy in 2010 to monitor and improve the experience of students entering the Clapboard Ridge facility. The school's academic departments include business, which offers classes in e-commerce and entrepreneurship, international business, financial planning, desktop publishing and fashion marketing. The World Languages Department offers Chinese, Italian and American Sign Language as well as the more common French and Spanish. Danbury High School publishes its newsletter in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
- Hours: School hours: 7:20am - 2pm. Students are allowed in the building 30 minutes before class starts.
- Handicap Accessible: The high school has ramps and elevators.
- Number of students: 2,835
- Public/Private: Public
- Financial aid: Yes
- Religious affiliation: None.
- Graduation rate (%): 93
- Accreditation/licenses: Danbury High School is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
- Parking: Free lot
- Number of faculty: 205
- How engaged is the school with the community?: Students support and champion dozens of charitable causes each year, host senior/senior proms in local senior citizen facilities, hold socials at schools in the Danbury Public School System and work on environmental and political causes.
- What makes this community special?: Danbury High School prides itself on cultural diversity and tolerance and notes its students come from 40 different language backgrounds.
- Grade levels: 9-12
- Boarding: No
- Special education: Yes
- Uniforms: No
- Features: Auditorium/stage, Cafeteria, Computer lab, Infirmary, Library, Science lab, Sports facilities
- Advanced placement courses: Danbury High School students took 20 different AP classes and 70 percent of the students earned college credit in those classes.
- Extracurricular activities available: The school offers students both sports and clubs, and students have embraced causes in the past that led to legislative reform, including a nationwide effort to publicize the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
- Student clubs: Key Club, literary magazine, Drama Club, Future Teachers Club, Chess Club, Spanish Club
- Sports teams: Cross country, tennis, football, soccer, swimming, volleyball, track, speed skiing, wrestling, golf, basketball, lacrosse, softball
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