Hope High School (Rhode Island)

In 2003, Hope High School was partitioned into three semi-independent "communities": Hope High School Arts Community, Hope High School Technology Community, and Hope Leadership Community—each with its own principal. Since June 2009, the Leadership Community no longer exists and as of June 2012, the Arts and Technology communities were merged into one school. The triune system was developed in an attempt to remedy a history of exceptionally low test scores (2008 SAT combined score was 1047, over 900 points lower than Moses Brown School, a private school 2 blocks away) at Hope High School. Many regard Hope High - and the future success or failure of these reforms - as a "litmus test" for educational reform in Rhode Island. It serves grades 9-12 with a total of 949 students as of the 2020 academic year. ==Student demographics==

Hope High School won four baseball championships and three football championships between 1918 and 1929. Hope won the 1917, 1928, 1930, 1990, and 1992 state interscholastic outdoor track meet championships. The cross country team was the division two state champions 1988-1992. Hope's soccer team won the Rhode Island division 1 championship in 2006. In 1938 Hope High's basketball team not only won the RI Schoolboy State Championship, the boys from Hope Street went on to win the New England Basketball Championship hosted in Connecticut. Charles Melay Simon earned all New England Honors to go along with his RI Schoolboy All State Honors. In the period 1960 through 1963, Hope High's Falkmen (coach Bill Falk) were undefeated in cross-country, indoor and outdoor track competition winning both Division1 and State Championships all 4 years. In the winter of 1961, Hope High teams were Division 1 and State Champions in Basketball, Hockey, and Indoor Track - the three major winter sports at the time. The 1956, 1960, and 1961 Hope hockey teams, coached by Ed Mullen, were crowned R.I. State champions. ==Notable people==

Alumni • Richard S. Aldrich, U.S. Representative • Leah B. Allen, astronomer, professor, and observatory director • Deon Anderson, former NFL player. Spent only one season in the school • Edward Beard, U.S. Representative • Aaron Beck, psychiatrist and inventor of cognitive behavioral therapy. • Betty Wells Halladay, illustrator of the Grant-Hadley Enterprises publication Rhode Island on Lovecraft (1945). • H. P. Lovecraft, horror author • Simon Ostrach, noted engineer in developing the NASA program in microgravity science • Ben Powers, actor Good Times and Mike Hammer • Al Russas, former NFL player Faculty • Frank Caprio, former teacher • Juanita Sánchez, founder of The Rainbow Center for teen parents ==References==