Hatboro-Horsham High School

							                                    Hatboro-Horsham High School
                        899 Horsham Road, Horsham, Pennsylvania 19044-1271
                             (215) 420-5500 Guidance Fax: 215-420-5524
                                     CEEB/ACT CODE: 391-695

                                          PROFILE 2009-2010


    Superintendent              Guidance Counselors
    Dr. William Lessa           Mr. Philip Noonan           215-420-5531      HU  pnoonan@hatboro-horsham.org      U




                                Ms. Marjorie Zahn           215-420-5530      HU  mzahn@hatboro-horsham.org    U




    Asst Superintendent         Ms. Pamela Hermann          215-420-5526      HU  phermann@hatboro-horsham.org             U




    Mr. Curtis Griffin          Ms. Sarah Carner            215-420-5525      HU  scarner@hatborohorsham.org
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    Principal                   Ms. Stacy Lombardi          215-420-5527      HU  slombard@hatboro-horsham.org         U




    Mr. Dennis M. Williams, Jr. Ms. Meghann Townsend        215-420-5523      U   mtownsen@hatboro-horsham.org             U




                                Ms. Marcey Varano           215-420-5529      HU  mvarano@hatboro-horsham.org      U




    Assistant Principals
    Dr. Susan Bitner            Guidance Office Staff
    Mr. Ralph A. Rapino         Ms. Lee Anne Foreman        215-420-5521      U   lforeman@hatboro-horsham.org
    Mr. William Miles           Ms. Diana Harmon            215-420-5522      U   dharmon@hatboro-horsham.org


Community                                                     United States Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon
Hatboro-Horsham School District serves the Borough            School of Excellence and has been named one of the top 150
of Hatboro and the Township of Horsham in                     high schools in the nation by Redbook Magazine. The school
Montgomery County, PA. These suburban                         is fully accredited by the Pennsylvania Department of
communities, located approximately 17 miles northwest         Education and in 2006 was recommended for full
of Philadelphia, are comprised of residential,                accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Secondary
agricultural, commercial and light industrial areas. The      Schools. The school houses grades nine through twelve with
annual operating budget of $83 million serves a               an approximate enrollment of 1750 students. There are 155
population of 5,200 students at five elementary schools,      faculty members, 70% of which hold Master’s Degrees or
a middle school and a high school.                            higher.

Scheduling                                                    The high school library has over 21,000 items in its collection
The Hatboro-Horsham administration and staff believe          which includes books, pamphlets, and e-books. The library
that Intensive (Block) Scheduling provides many               subscribes to 42 periodicals and 18 online databases with
positives for our students including better academic          home access to all 18. The library belongs to Access PA
preparation for college. We have been implementing            enabling students and staff access to all the online programs
Block Scheduling since the 1992-93 school year. There         provided under PA Power Library. Use of PA Power Library
are five 80 minute periods, including a lunch/extra help      from home requires a public library card.
period in the day, allowing for up to four Carnegie units
per semester. Students take a minimum of seven or             There are 1000 networked computers in the building with
eight Carnegie units per year. The school year is two         student access from the computer lab, library and classrooms.
semesters totaling 180 days with a total of four marking      Other technology used to facilitate curriculum in the
periods. We have adopted an every other day rotation          classroom include lightware projectors, white board, wireless
in order to permit students the opportunity to take more      laptop cart, digital camera, C.A.D., scanners, and more.
courses. A 1.0 credit course meets every day for 18
weeks and a 0.5 credit course meets every other day for       The Student Success Center offers references as well as a
18 weeks.                                                     variety of online programs on colleges, careers, testing,
                                                              military services and technical and trade schools. There is
High School                                                   staff available to provide assistance to students and parents.
Hatboro-Horsham High School is a four-year                    The high school also utilizes Naviance and its web-based
comprehensive public high school recognized by the            software to assist students with the college application
                                                              process.