Scarsdale High School

Scarsdale High School (SHS) is a public high school in Scarsdale, New York, United States, a coterminous town and village in Westchester County, New York. It is a part of the Scarsdale Union Free School District.

The school was founded in 1917. From the graduating class of 2017, 98% continued their education with college programs, and 97% entered four-year national and international colleges and universities. Thirteen students in the class of 2017 (3%) were named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, and 27 (7%) students received National Merit Letters of commendation. Between 2007 and 2009, Scarsdale High School made a transition from Advanced Placement (AP) to Advanced Topics (AT) courses.

In the 2017–18 school year, SHS had a professional staff of 156 with a median teaching experience of 19 years. 99% of the faculty held a master's degree, 81% had 30 credits or more beyond a master's, and 4% had doctorate degrees. The student faculty ratio is 11.66 to 1, and its teachers have one of the highest paying salaries in the country: 44% had a base-salary of over $100,000 in 2005.

The school is 14.7% Asian, 1.4% Black, 7.8% Hispanic, 68.4% White and 5.7% other.

Notable alumni

 * Jacqueline Alemany (2007), journalist
 * Eric Alterman (1978), Nation columnist
 * Jacob M. Appel (1992), author and bioethics scholar
 * Nan Aron (1966), civil rights advocate, public interest lawyer
 * Nancy Atlas (1967), United States federal judge
 * Greg M. Behrman (1994), author; Henry Kissinger Fellow for Foreign Policy at The Aspen Institute; founder, editor and CEO of NationSwell
 * Marc Bell (1985), Tony Award winner
 * Dan Biederman (1971), urban management pioneer
 * Leslie Cannold (1983), author, commentator, ethicist, activist
 * Nick Civetta (2007), rugby lock/flanker
 * Ed Cohen (2001), sportscaster
 * Lizabeth Cohen (1969), historian, scholar
 * Lydia Cornell (as Lydia Korniloff) (1971), actress
 * Laura Dave (1995), novelist
 * Lisa Donovan (1998), actress
 * Robert Durst (1961), murderer, son of Seymour Durst and real estate heir
 * John S. Dyson (1961), businessman
 * Nicole Eisenman (1983), visual artist
 * Eve Ensler (1971), playwright, performer, activist
 * David Feldshuh (1961), physician, dramatist, artistic director at Cornell University
 * Tovah Feldshuh (1966), actress
 * Rob Fishman (2004), entrepreneur and writer
 * Richard Foreman (1955), playwright, avant-garde theater pioneer
 * David Galef (1977), novelist, short story writer
 * Lindsay Gottlieb (1995), USC Trojans head coach
 * Gordon Gould (1938), physicist credited with inventing laser
 * Earl G. Graves Jr. (1980), basketball player
 * Ross Greenburg (1973), executive for HBO Sports
 * Peter Grosz (1992), actor
 * Jonathan Haidt (1981), social psychologist
 * Jeffrey Hoffman (1962), astronaut
 * Richard Holbrooke (1958), diplomat
 * Heather H. Howard (1986), health policy expert and political advisor
 * Yanni Hufnagel (2001), college basketball coach
 * Roger Harold Hull (1960), Educator, Administrator, Lawyer
 * Andy Jassy (1986), CEO of Amazon
 * Gish Jen (1974), novelist
 * Kenneth I. Juster (1972), government official, lawyer
 * Brewster Kahle (1978), founder of the Internet Archive and Wayback Machine
 * Matthew Kahn (1984), environmental economics scholar
 * Bob Kauffman (1964), professional basketball player
 * Alison Knowles (1951), artist
 * Zach Kornfeld (2008), YouTube personality and member of The Try Guys
 * Barbara Kopple (1964), documentary film director
 * Richard Kostelanetz (1958), writer and visual artist
 * Glenn Kramon (1971), journalist, assistant managing editor of The New York Times
 * Robert Kuttner (1961), journalist, editor
 * David Lascher (1990), actor
 * John Leventhal (1970), musician, producer, songwriter, recording engineer
 * Mara Liasson (1973), National Public Radio correspondent
 * Cabot Lyford (1942), sculptor
 * Charles S. Maier (1956), professor of history at Harvard University
 * Michael Mark (1968), musician/composer
 * Linda McCartney (1960), photographer, wife of Paul McCartney
 * Liza Minnelli (attended 1961–62, did not graduate), singer, actor
 * Rick Moser (1974), NFL (Steelers) football player, actor
 * Ethan Nadelmann (1975), writer and advocate on drug policy reform
 * Nadine Netter (1962), tennis player
 * Charles Newirth (1973), film producer
 * Jack Newkirk (1932), naval aviator
 * Judith Newman (1977), journalist and author
 * Suzanne Nossel (1987), non-profit executive and human rights activist
 * Geoffrey Nunberg (1962), noted linguist, author, professor (U C Berkeley and Stanford) and commentator on NPR's "Fresh Air"
 * Emily Nussbaum (1984), journalist
 * Dan O'Brien (1992), playwright, poet, librettist, essayist
 * Jon Oringer (1992), entrepreneur and the founder of the popular microstock photography site Shutterstock
 * Cathryn Jakobson Ramin (1975), journalist and writer
 * Victoria Redel (1976), poet, fiction writer, professor at Sarah Lawrence College
 * Bryan Reynolds (1983), playwright, Shakespeare scholar
 * Thomas E. Ricks (1973), journalist
 * Tom Rogers (1972), media executive
 * Dan Rosensweig (1979), business executive, CEO of Chegg
 * Elisabeth Rosenthal (1974), physician, journalist for The New York Times
 * Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (1966), climatologist
 * Douglas Rushkoff (1979), media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian
 * David Rusk (1958), author and consultant on regional strategies for metropolitan areas, former mayor of Albuquerque, member of the New Mexico legislature
 * Daniel Schacter (1970), psychologist
 * Noah Schnapp (2022), actor
 * Carl Emil Schorske (1932), cultural historian
 * Christopher M. Schroeder (1982), entrepreneur
 * Alan Schwarz (1986), sportswriter
 * John E. Schwarz (1957), political scientist, distinguished senior fellow at Demos
 * DJ Shiftee (2004), DJ, turntablist, born Samuel Morris Zornow
 * Cevin Soling (1984), filmmaker, musician, and writer
 * Aaron Sorkin (1979), screenwriter
 * Andrew Ross Sorkin (1995), journalist
 * Fred Stahl (1962) early computer scientist, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University.
 * Richard Stengel (1973), editor of Time magazine
 * Roderick Stephens (1927), sailor
 * Carolyn Strauss (1981), television executive and producer
 * George Sugihara (1968), theoretical biologist
 * Ivan Sutherland (1955), Internet pioneer
 * Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson (1969), judge
 * Nina Totenberg (1962), journalist, NPR legal affairs correspondent
 * James Traub (1972), journalist
 * Gary Trauner (1979), Wyoming politician
 * Florence Wald (1934), nurse, professor, administrator
 * John Wallach (1960), journalist, author, editor, founder of Seeds of Peace
 * Ellen Weiss (1977), radio executive
 * Bob Wilber (1945), jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, band leader
 * Harris Wofford (1944), United States Senator from Pennsylvania
 * George Zimmer (1966), entrepreneur