White Plains High School
Location
550 North Street White Plains , Westchester County , New York 10605 United States
Coordinates	41°01′12″N 73°44′16″W / 41.02005°N 73.73777°W / 41.02005; -73.73777
Information
Type	Public
Established	1962[1]
School district	White Plains Public Schools
NCES School ID	363126004188[3]
Principal	Emerly A. Martinez[2]
Faculty	171.5 FTEs[3]
Grades	9 – 12
Enrollment	2,221 (as of 2023–24)[3]
Student to teacher ratio	13.0:1[3]
Campus size	75 acres
Colors	Orange & black
Athletics	Section 1 (NYSPHSAA)
Mascot	Tiger
Phone number	(914) 422-2182
Graduation rate	92%[4]
Website	https://hs.whiteplainspublicschools.org/

White Plains High School is a high school in the White Plains Public Schools system of White Plains, New York, United States.^[5] Built in 1962, it sits on 75 acres and has been expanded. It was selected by the U.S. Department of Education as a School of Excellence in 1986–1987.

As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,221 students and 171.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1. There were 1,202 students (54.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 84 (3.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.^[3]

• Yearbook: The Oracle^[6]
• Newspaper: The Orange^[7]
• Literary magazine: The Roar^[8]

The school makes available for its students two gymnasiums, a weight room, a track field and football field (Loucks Field),^[9] a soccer field, baseball and softball fields, tennis courts, and a pool.

• White Plains football team won the Section 1 Class AA title in 2013 for the first time in 34 years.^{[citation needed]}

Notable inductees into the White Plains High School Hall of Fame include:^[10]

• T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1970) – United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees
• David Corn (1977) – author and broadcast journalist
• John Davidson (1959) – versatile singer, actor and entertainer with career spanning more than 55 years, including Broadway musicals, Disney movies, variety, game and talk shows on TV and Las Vegas showrooms
• Robert Malcolm Graham (1963) – Massachusetts State Supreme Court Justice
• Lawrence Otis Graham (1979) – author, attorney and broadcast commentator
• Larry James (1966) – Olympic medal winner
• James J. Jordan (1948) – advertising executive and copywriter (posthumous award)
• Grover "Deacon" Jones (1952) – Major League Baseball player and coach
• Philip Kent (1972) – CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
• Jonathan Larson (1978) – Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright, Rent (posthumous award)
• J. Bruce Llewellyn (1945) – business and civic leader
• Dave Marash (1959) – broadcast journalist
• Craig Masback (1973) – track champion, sports broadcaster, CEO of USA Track & Field
• Art Monk (1976) – NFL wide receiver, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
• Oscar Moore (1956) – U.S. Olympian runner, honored college track & field coach
• Garrick Ohlsson (1966) – international concert pianist
• Jimmy Roberts (1975) – Emmy Award-winning sports journalist and broadcaster
• John Jay Saldi IV (1972) – football player; played more than 100 games over nine seasons in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and the Chicago Bears; key member of Dallas' Super Bowl Champion (XII) team
• David E. Sanger (1978) – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, White House Correspondent for The New York Times
• Richard Schlesinger (1972) – broadcast journalist

Other notable alumni include:

• Sam Bowers – football player
• Lynn Conway (class of 1955) – computer scientist and transgender rights activist
• David Corn – political journalist and author
• Sloane Crosley – author
• Jennifer Damiano – Broadway actress^[11]
• Dan Duryea (class of 1924) – film and television actor^[12]
• Roger S. Gottlieb - philosopher and environmentalist
• Mal Graham – basketball player, 11th overall pick of 1967 NBA draft
• Martha Himmelfarb – scholar of religion and long-time professor at Princeton University
• Larry James – Olympic gold medalist track athlete
• Grover "Deacon" Jones – retired first baseman for Chicago White Sox
• Sean Kilpatrick – basketball player for Brooklyn Nets and for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Super League
• Jonathan Larson – playwright and composer, best known for creating musical Rent
• Lou Mark – football player
• Matisyahu – Hasidic Jewish reggae musician
• Arthur Monk – NFL wide receiver, Pro Football Hall of Fame
• Dennis Morgan – NFL football player
• Dick Nolan – football player
• Garrick Ohlsson – classical pianist
• Lawrence Otis Graham – attorney, journalist, and author
• Gordon Parks Jr. – film director of Super Fly, son of photographer Gordon Parks Sr.^{[citation needed]}
• Louise Reiss (1920–2011), physician who coordinated what became known as the Baby Tooth Survey, which found Strontium-90 in the deciduous teeth of children living in the St. Louis area^[13]
• Jay Saldi – NFL tight end, Super Bowl champion (Super Bowl X)
• David E. Sanger – White House correspondent for The New York Times
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum – computer scientist^[14][15]
• Chris Watson – American-Israeli basketball player
• Claire Weinstein - Olympic silver medalist freestyle swimmer.^[16]
• Sal Yvars – MLB baseball player

Scenes from The Beaver, a film directed by Jodie Foster and starring Mel Gibson and Foster, were filmed at the high school in the fall of 2009.^[17] Scenes from the film Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti, were shot at the high school in March 2010.^[18] Scenes from Alex Strangelove, a film written and directed by Craig Johnson, were also filmed at the high school in the summer of 2017.