Daniel Hand High School
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Madison , Connecticut United States | |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | Live to Learn - Learn to Live |
| Head teacher | Barbara Britton |
| Number of students | 1,200 |
| Color(s) | Black and Gold |
| Website | http://www.danielhand.org/ |
Daniel Hand High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Madison, Connecticut, serving grades 9 - 12, with an enrollment of approximately 1,200 students. Each year more than ninety percent (90%) of the senior class continues their education at the post-secondary level. The school is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and the Connecticut State Department of Education. The Old Daniel Hand High, adjacent to the newer High School building is now operating as Walter C. Polson Upper Middle School.
History
- Biography of Daniel Hand
Daniel Hand, whom the school is named for, was a philanthropist, born in Madison, Connecticut in 1801. For many years he was a merchant in Augusta, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, where he accumulated a fortune. After the Civil War he retired and returned to the north. Daniel Hand's first gift was a high-school building to his native town. In 1888 he gave to the American missionary association more than $1,000,000, to be held in trust and known as the Daniel Hand Educational Fund for Colored People, to be used in the "states in which slavery was recognized in 1861.
- Location
The school originated as Hand Academy on Island Avenue in downtown Madison, but after some years moved to it's current campus on Green Hill Road. In 2004, a new building adjacent to the previous Daniel Hand building (now Walter Polson Upper Middle School), and is the current location of the school. The original building on Island Avenue became Island Avenue Elementary School, but is currently closed due to several building code violations.
Special Academic and Community Offerings
- Advanced Placement Courses
- AP English (Language & Literature)
- AP Calculus (AB, BC)
- AP Chemistry
- AP Physics
- AP US History
- AP European History/Western Civilization
- AP Spanish Language
- AP Psychology
- University Of Connecticut Cooperative Program'
- AP English
- AP European History/Western Civilization
- AP Calculus
- AP Chemistry
- AP Physics
- Math Modeling.
- Wesleyan University High School Scholars Program A cooperative Honors Program for qualified students (at Wesleyan).
- Yale-New Haven Area High School Program Qualified students may register for undergraduate courses at Yale College.
- A Better Chance (A.B.C. Program) Part of the national ABC program for highly motivated, academically able students from disadvantaged educational areas.
- Tech Prep Program A nationally recognized program that enables students to receive community college credit.
- Magnet School Programs Daniel Hand High School students may participate in partial day programs at the Educational Center for the Arts and the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven. High School in the Community offers a full time program for a selective group of students.