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Brighton
p18 Preschool, Before/After School Care Gifted and Talented programs and services k-12 Instrumental Music g4-12 with Band and Orchestra; Vocal music g4-12, Theatre g6-12, Summer arts g2-12 French, German, Latin, Spanish AP: Art History, Biology, etc. SUPA Economics and Statistics Alternative Instructional Model Vocational Education via Eastern Monroe Career Center TASC Program Academic COmpetitions: Distributive Education Clubs of America, Future Business Leaders of AMerica, Masterminds, Math Team, Mock GTrial Team, Model UN, Science Olympiad, Chess Team, Envirothon, Poetry Out Loud TUtoring Center Urban-Suburban program 423 students transported to 30 private/parochial schools 22 students homeschooled transportation k-6 1/4 mile, 7-12 3/4 mile Family Support Center Performing arts and sports boosters Community education

Fairport
p28 Academic competitions Alterantive High School Career & Technical Education Diploma Credentials Field Trips Foreign Exchange Program Full Day Universal Pre-K and K Gifted and talented gK-5 High school coops Instrumental music g4-12, band 5-12, orchestra 4-12, chorus 3-12 French, German, Spanish School college partnerships SUPA (Syracuse Univ Project Advance) Economics, Sociology, Forensic Science, Psychology Urban-Suburban program 323 students transported to 26 schools 107 students homeschooled transportation k-6 1/4 mile, 7-12 1/2 mile, k-8 to child care facilities within district Alumni wall of fame Asset building initiative Booster clubs (sports, music) Dollars for Scholars Co-curricular, extra-curriciular Education Wall of Distinction Fairport Perinton Chemical Prevention Advisory COuncil Grandparetn/Grandfriend days Parenting programs PTA/PTSA at all schools Senior bash Strong behavioral health

Penfield
p.42 SUPA Dual credit courses RIT, MCC, FLCC French, German, Latin, Spanish Academic competitions: Masterminds, Math Olympiad, Model UN, National LOTE Exams, National math exames, Monroe COunty Math League, Odyssey of the Mind Robotics Project Lead the Way Enrichment programs k-12 Insturmental music g1-12 with Band and orchestra 4-12 Full day kindergarten YMCA day care program before/after school Urban-suburban program 399 students transported to 22 schools/92 students home schooled Transport K-8 at least 1/2 mile, 9-12 at least 1 1/2 mile Special Education PTA PACE (parents advocationg for challenge in education Adult education offered by town of penfield

Webster
p52 Before and after school child care (YMCA) Differentiated instruction k-8 Music ensemble 4-12, band, chorus, orchestra American Sign, French,German, Latin, Spanish Dual Credit with MCC and RIT, CLEP Spanish, French, German, Project Lead the Way Young Entrepreneur Academy (YEA!) Speech & Debate Academic competitions: Computer Science League, MathCounts, Math League, Science Olympiad, Model UN, Scholastic Art COmpetition, MasterMinds, CHess League, National Merit Scholars and Commended Students, National Young Leaders COnference, FIRST SparX-1125 Robotics Team, Odyssey of the Mind Art and Music Competitions Scholastic Art awards, NYS School Music Association, Alll-State and area all-state ensembles, Monroe COunty, Music Sssociation, All-County Ensembles, National Associaiton for Music Education All-National Honor Ensemble, Best COmmunities for Music Education Award, Webster Marching Band, NYS Field Band Conference & US Bands Yamaha Cup Participant, American Choral Directors Associaiton, Honor Choir 737 students tranported to 29 private/parochial schools 177 students homeschooled tranport k-5 1/4 mi, 6-12 0.7 mi resident children to child care facilities withing district and to private day cares within home school catchment area Webster Athletic Booster Assn Individual sport boosters Webster Marching Band Boosters, inc. Budget advisory committeee COmmunity Education Program World of WOrk, YEA! mentors Listening post Webster Economic Devleopment Alliance Webster Theater Guild

Brighton
Private schools located in Brighton include the Harley School, McQuaid Jesuit High School, Our Lady of Mercy High School, St. Thomas More School, and Seton Catholic School. Former schools include the Allen Creek School (annexed by Pittsford Central School District in 1958), the Austin Crittenden School (annexed by Rush–Henrietta Central School District before 1959),  Indian Landing School (annexed by Penfield Central School District in 1954), and St. Agnes High School (1954–1982).

Brighton High School, commonly abbreviated BHS, is a public high school located in the Brighton suburb of Rochester, New York, USA. It offers a comprehensive curriculum for students in grades 9–12. It is part of the Brighton Central School District.

Overview
In 2015, Brighton offered Advanced Placement (AP) classes in numerous subjects, including Calculus (AB and BC), Biology, Physics (1, 2, and C), Chemistry, Environmental Science, Economics, Government and Politics, Psychology, United States History, European History, Music Theory, Statistics, Studio Art, English Literature, English Language, Spanish, French, German, and Computer Science. Of the 1094 AP exams administered to students, about 83% scored a 3 or higher.

The class of 2015 graduated 296 students. There were eight National Merit Scholarship finalists, eight semi-finalists, and nine commended students. For the class of 2015, about 89% of graduates chose to go onto high education, with the majority going to four-year colleges. Brighton regularly sends numerous graduates to top colleges and universities, including alumni currently at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Harvard University, Williams College, the University of Rochester, Stanford University, Georgetown University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Many Brighton students comment on Brighton's diversity, with about 28% minority enrollment, Brighton's academic feel and environment, and Brighton's commitment to deep learning beyond simply memorization to prepare for a test. For example, the AP US History course at Brighton requires that each student participate in a debate regarding a topic in US history and write an extended academic paper about the topic. This assignment requires an extensive amount of work, rhetorical skill, academic research, and creativity.

Brighton is a suburb of the city of Rochester. The high school has an urban-suburban program that allows inner-city students to attend Brighton High School.

Performance
The school has appeared on Newsweek magazine's Top 100 Public High Schools list. In 1998, Brighton achieved its highest ranking on the Newsweek list, in 5th place. In 2004, it was ranked 27th in the nation. In 2006, it was placed 96th. In 2007, it was placed 79th, one ahead of Pittsford Mendon High School. In 2008, it was ranked 158, fifth among schools in the Rochester area behind Pittsford Sutherland, Pittsford Mendon, Greece Odyssey and Wilson Magnet. Rankings fluctuate heavily based upon AP exams administered relative to the graduating senior class. In 2010, Brighton was placed 126th.

In 2007, U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked Brighton High School 57th out of 18,790 public high schools. It was the only Monroe County school on the list.

Publications and productions
Brighton is one of the only schools in the Rochester area that allows its publications to hold permanent office spaces.
 * Trapezoid is Brighton High School's monthly school newspaper. Sections include news, feature, opinion, in depth and sports. The newspaper has repeatedly received a number of awards, including first place in the Bertram Freed Memorial Award Competition, and New York's Best Newspaper and Best Online Publication from the Empire State School Press Association for several years in a row.
 * Crossroads, Brighton High School's yearbook, was founded in 1933. It is distributed at BHS's annual Springfest every year.
 * Galaxy, created in 1954, is Brighton's art and literary magazine. Galaxy continues its tradition of holding meetings at students' homes on Sunday evenings. Galaxy is entirely student-created, with the help of advisor and art teacher Debra Burger and is printed locally. In 2009, the magazine received a First Place with Special Merit award from the American Scholastic Press Association for its article on French sub ordinance. It received the Gold/All New York Award, as well as the Award for Originality from the annual ESSPA (Empire State Scholastic Press Association) Conference in 2011. Many individual Galaxy members won Gold awards in their respective fields at this conference as well.
 * The Morning Show began in the 1986–1987 school year with Brighton Beat, a precursor to The Morning Show. This show included one news and one interview show each week. In 1991, The Morning Show was officially created at BHS by producers Bennett Killmer and Joe Nussbaum, with the help of a teacher, Richard Tschorke. Nussbaum went on to direct the short film George Lucas in Love and the feature films Sleepover and Sydney White starring Amanda Bynes. Tschorke was the advisor to the club for twenty years, later to be succeeded by Chris French as the new club advisor. The show originally only had a few small cameras. Since then, it has grown to include two Blackmagic Design studio cameras, a Behringer Audio Mixer, a graphics program from Datavideo called CG-500 and a Blackmagic Design ATEM 1 M/E Switcher. The show started streaming over the internet exclusively starting in the 2015-2016 school year. The Morning Show is regarded by some as a professional and quality program, and continues to modernize using more up-to-date equipment and resources each year.

Languages
Brighton students are offered a wide array of courses in languages other than English, including:
 * French
 * German
 * Spanish
 * Latin
 * Mandarin Chinese

The arts
In March 2007, Brighton High School students acted in a one-night only shadow production of Our Town at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York. Directed by a BHS 11th grade English teacher, Judy Shomper, the play provided an opportunity for the students to make new bonds with professional actors after viewing several rehearsals and the professional final product.

The musicals at BHS were directed by Larry Dugan for a number of years starting in 1986.

In fall 2007, then-senior Kyle Glickman, one of Shomper's students, won a Rochester youth literature contest held by Geva Theater with his short play ''The Country That Failed to Fight. (A French Production)''

Brighton High School has more than 20 musical groups, ranging from the Jazz Band to the Crazy Pitches, a co-ed a cappella group. Brighton High School also flourishes instrumentally under the direction of Therese Schmid, Michael Struzik and Cheryl Guth, and each year they lead many musical groups in instrumental ensembles, musicals and other events for the school. Many students take part in the local Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Hochestein Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Brighton High School is always represented in these groups with many talented student musicians.

In 2009, Brighton's Jazz Appreciation Club founded Bagelfest, an early-morning festival dedicated to the appreciation of jazz music while enjoying hundreds of bagels. More than 150 students, along with an assortment of BHS faculty, gathered in the band room on May 29 for the event. Bagelfest included a live broadcast on Brighton's student-run Morning Show. In the years to come, the Jazz Appreciation Club hopes to raise enough money to donate all proceeds to various charitable organizations that expand jazz literacy in younger generations. In 2012, Brighton High School put on Dead Man Walking, chronicling Sister Helen Prejean's accompaniment of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet through Death Row. Cast members began rehearsing the play in May of the previous school year, due to the heavy subject material and emotional gravity. During rehearsal of this play, many classes discussed the death penalty and justice system as it applied to their subjects. English classes studied works about death row inmates and students in Law and Government studied New York's laws regarding capital punishment of inmates. After the opening performance on October 26, a forum was held with two lawyers discussing the death penalty.

For the 2016-2017 season, Brighton High School put on Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim for the fall 2016 performance, and is currently in the process of rehearsing Les Misérables (musical) for the winter 2017 performance.

Athletics
The 1971 boys' soccer team under coach Clarence Mepham won the sectionals, beating rival Pittsford in the final match 1-0 on a frozen field. Notable about that playoffs was the semi-final matches against Gates-Chili. The first game ended in a 0–0 tie, after four sudden-death five-minute overtimes. The next day, the teams played again, also ending in a 1–1 tie, with another four sudden-death five-minute overtimes. The two exhausted teams took a day off, and then came back for a third game, which Brighton won 3-1, Gary Lawton scoring twice. The games were written about in a Scorecard item in Sports Illustrated a few weeks later. The noted Brighton graduate and professional soccer player and coach David Sarachan was the left striker for that team.

The boys' lacrosse team won the 2004 sectional championship.

In the 2006 season, the boys' volleyball team went to sectional finals, beaten by Victor in the final game.

The girls' lacrosse team has won 12 sectional titles and one state championship in the past 14 years (as of 2011).

John Dugan's school record setting performance of 1:55.0 at the 1989 NYSPHSAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in 800 meters stood for nearly twenty years. In 2007, Mike Geary set new records for both the 800 meter (1:54) and the 1600 meter (4:19).

Cross-country coach Steve Pulos, Ph.D, is a former track All-American at 10,000 meters, Wineglass Marathon champion (2:34), and Lilac Festival 10k champion. Pulos was the individual winner of the prestigious Lilac Festival 10k road race in 1980 with a time of 30:24, although he would never personally admit to any of his running accomplishments. To put this monster run into perspective, the former American record holder at 5k, Matt Centrowicz, won this race two years later. Pulos's time beats several later individual winners, such as Scott Bagley, Todd Reeser and Tom Haxton (perennial Rochester road racing champion, University of Rochester All-American, and University of Chicago All-American, respectively). Pulos team's has won eight Section V Championships in track/cross country during his coaching tenure at Brighton High.

The boys' and girls' cross-country team were New York State Champions in 2004.

The girls' Alpine ski team won the NYS crown in 2005.

The boys' basketball team produced a 17-3 record in 2007 and advanced into the Monroe County Tournament as the number 1 seed for the AA division. Five players were selected to the Monroe County 2007 All-Star Team (Joe Reed, Brad Cronister, Connor Dever, Dan Holtzman, Brandon Burris).

The boys' baseball team made it to the sectional championships in 2006 where they lost to rival Pittsford Sutherland

The boys' swim team sent several swimmers to the state competition in 2007 and again in 2010, and won sectional titles in 2012, 2011, and 2009.

The boys' diving team sent Devin Zdanowski to the New York State Diving Championships in 2010 after taking first place in the 2010 Section V Championship meet.

The boys' bowling team won its first Division III title in 2007. Richard Farrington made the All Section 5 composite team for states that year.

The Brighton crew team has produced many Division 1 rowers at schools such as Annapolis, Georgetown, Princeton, Stanford, Wisconsin, and Yale. The Boys Crew team won the NYS Championship points trophy in 2005. The boys' lightweight four won the NYS Championship in 2005, placed third in 2006, and placed second in 2007. The boys' double won the NYS Championship in both 2005 and 2007. The boys' double with Henry Fitts and Aidan Marsh went to Nationals in 2007.

In 2009, the boys' track and field team won its first Sectional Title. The team prevailed after trading leads with Pittsford Mendon throughout the day. The Barons secured their title when tenth seeded Philip Cooper won the 200m by 3 hundredths of a second.

In 2011, the Brighton Barons boys' soccer team won their third sectional title after defeating Aquinas in the Class A finals 2-0. They then defeated East Aurora of Buffalo 4-0 to win the Western New York Regional title, which gave them a place in the 2011 State Championship tournament in Middletown, New York. The Barons lost to Maine-Endwell in the semi-finals, where they lost in penalty kicks 4-5 after they tied 1-1 in regulation. They ended the season 13-4-4. The boys' soccer team won another title in 2012, when they defeated the eighth in the nation, and rival Pittsford Mendon, after Mendon swept them in regular season play. They beat Mendon 3-1. They lost in the Regional game to Williamsville East 2-0.

The boys' volleyball team won sectionals for the first time in 2012 and reached the State-Semis.

The girls' soccer team beat Aquinas (1-0) for the sectional crown. They advanced to the State-Semis for the first time in school history where they lost 1-0 to Jamesville-Dewitt. The girls' Field Hockey team in 2013 beat Pittsford Sutherland (2-0) for the sectional title. The team went to regional championship and won (2-0) against Amherst Central to advance to the Semi-Finals. The team then faced Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake, Brighton won (1-0). Brighton advanced to the finals where they lost to Lakeland (0-7).

The boys' tennis team in 2015 beat Pittsford Mendon (7-0) for the sectional title. The team successfully went to nationals and lost in the finals.

The boys' volleyball team in 2015 won states.

Extracurricular activities
Many of Brighton's extracurricular teams have performed well in many competitions:
 * Brighton Science Olympiad
 * The team was regional champion from 2010 to 2014.
 * In the year 2014, Brighton medalled in every single event.
 * Brighton Math Team
 * The team was Monroe County league champion for three years in a row.
 * Brighton Model UN
 * Brighton won best delegation more than 3 years in a row. About 2/3 of all chairs and 3/4 of the Secretariat at the Hilton 2014 Conference as well as the 2015 UNAR conference were from Brighton High School.
 * Brighton FBLA
 * Brighton Envirothon
 * Brighton frequently placed multiple teams in the top 5 at the Monroe County Envirothon. In 2013, Brighton sent a team to the states competition, placing 8th.
 * Brighton Chess Team
 * The team was Rochester League 1 champion for over 3 years in a row, and won 2nd place at the 2013 playoffs.
 * Brighton Speech and Debate Team
 * In its first year, 2014, the Brighton team medaled in multiple categories.
 * Four Public Forum debate teams represented Brighton in the 2016 New York State Forensic League State Tournament in Hofstra University in Long Island. The teams were given a proclamation from the Monroe County Legislature for their achievements.
 * Brighton Masterminds
 * The team was named Rochester regional champion in 1995, 1997, 2005, 2014, and 2015.
 * In 2014 and 2015, the team placed second in the state championship meet.

Brighton offers other extracurriculars, including Mock Trial, the Gay-Straight Alliance, Break Dance Club, Friends of Rachel, Recycling Club, Young Democrats, and Young Republicans. New clubs are formed every year, providing students a variety of activities to partake in.

History
"Rochester, A Panoramic History" p. 60 Henry O'Reilly Sketches of Rochester

Clover Street Seminary
1550 Clover Street (Residence of Joseph C. Wilson) The fine old house in CLover Street, Brighton, near Elmwood Avenue was built about 1845 on five acres of land deeded to Celestia A Blosss by here sister and brother0in-law, Mr and Mrs. Isaac Moore. In 1845 the school was incorproated unt eh name of the Clover Street Seminary. Pupils came from Rochester and from all parts of the state, and the school built up a reputation, not only for its high standard of scholarship requirements, but for the manner in which it developed character in its pupils. To take these day puils to the school there was an omnibus, drawn by two Indian ponies, which started each morning from the CLinton House in Exchange Street. In the winter the ominbus was mounted on runners and the floor covered with straw in which the well-wrapped boys and girls buried their feet to keep warm on the long ride. In the spring and summer there was also a packet-boat on the Erie Canal which left from the canal basin which then existed at the rear of the present Central Trust COmpany bank building. Passengers on this boat rode to Brighton whenc e they walked to the school. In 1874 the Reverend Thomass Drumm, M.D., conducted the St. Mark's School for Boys in the old seminary buliding. His advertisement descirbed the institution as being a "classical and family boarding school for boys in which special attention is given to the formation of correct gentlemntly habits. Terms, $300 a year." In later years the seminary building was used as a private residence.

School district
p.vi The origins of the Brighton Central School District date to the early 1800s when the town of Brighton, then geographically much larger than it is today, contained several common school districts. Each district provided a school, identified by a district number, to servie its respective constituency. While documentation of these pioneerr schools is incomplete, we do tknow that by 1836 twelve school districts enrolled a total of 781 students throughout the community. Common School District No. 1 was organized in 1815. Its scholl at the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Clover Street was maintained until the 920s. Common School District No. 3 was organized in 1828. Today a medical complex occupies the site of this district's original brick schoolhouse located on Westfall Road near South Clinton Avenue. Common School District No. 8, organized in 1829, was located in a brick building on Monroe Avenue near the Highland Avenue intersection and close to three Native American setltments. Like Common School District No. 1, Districts Nos. 3 and 8 served area students into the 1920s. pvii Common School District No. 9 erected its first school at the corner of Edgewood and Hillside (not French Road) Avenues in 18189. A two-room strucutre replaceed the original building in 1902 and served students through the 1930s. Now a private home, its distinctive bell tower reminders passers-by of school days long past. The piorneer schools of the early 1800s plrovided only elementary levels of education withint the community. During the mid-1800s the need for public secondayr education was recongized by the state and laws were passed to encourage the merger of common school districts. However, it was not until the 1920s that the state provided financial incentives for consolidation. At that time Common School Districts Nos. 1 and 8 joined together to form Brighton Union Free School District No. 1. A brick school designed to house grades 1-8 was constructed by the neew district at Brighton's Twelve Corners in 1925. Secondayr classes were added to the curriculum sequentially, beginning in 1929. Over th years (1928, 1930, 1933, 1938, 1996) numerous additions were made to accommmodate an ever-expanding school population. Now known as twelve Corners Middle School, this building currently houses oalmost 900 students in grades 6-8 pviii A charter for Brighton's first high schol was granted in 1931 and ground was broken for a new building in 1938. The class of 1940 attended the Twelve COrners School but had their graduation ceremonies in the new Brighton High School. Enlarged in 1950 and renovated in the early 1970s and again in the 1980s, Brighton High School conitinues to serve as Brighton's only public high school. The 1950s ushered in an era of real change for the community's school districts. The post-=World War II baby boom necessitated the consturction of Twelve Corners Elementary School on Monroe Avenue and consolidation again emerged as an issue when it became expedient for common school districts to alighn themsevles with high schoool.s During this era three districts merged with other communities: West Brighton (#40 joined Rush-Henrietta; Allens Creek (#6) joined Pittsford Schools; and Indian Landiung (#7) joined what is now the Penfield School District. A vote to consolidate Bright's Union Free School District No. 1 with Common School Districts Nos. 3 and 9 was soundly defeated in 19555.  The latter two schools subsequently mergeed to form Union Free School District #2. pix and opened Brookside School in 1957.  Continuing population gorwth resulted in the addition of a junior hgih wing to Brookside and the opening oft two new buildings in the new district (French Road School in 1959, Meadowview School in 1960). During this same period Uniont Free District No. 1 expanded Twelve Corners ELementary School and constructed Council ROck Elementary School (1958) Enrollment projectsion for the future and financial incentives from New York State ultimately led to the consolidation of Union Free School Districts Nos.1 and 2. On July 1, 1966, the Brighton Central School district was formed. Student enrollment reached a peak of 4500 at the time of consolidation and held steady until the 1970s. Enrollment begain to decline through the 1980s down to a low of 2650 students in 1989. During this period several schools were closed and the district was reconfigured. Meadowview School was sold in 19777 and is currently home fo Hillel School. Brookside School was closed ot students in 1987 and is now leased to pre-school programs and Brighton Recreation as a community center. Twelve Corners Elementary School is the site of the district's administrative offices. The dsitrict is currenly organized to provide a centralized program. Council Rock Primary Schoool houses grades K-2, French Road Elementary School grades 3-5, Twelve Corners Middle School encompasses grades 6-8, and all 9-12 students attend Brighton High School. There are now 3300 students in the district and enrollment is increasing. Over th years the district's student body has evolved into a culturally diverse community. Approximately 10 percent of the students are foregin born and represent 35 nations. Such diversity is valued anf fostered through annual cultural exchanges with sister programs in France, Germany, and Spain. High school students from these nations are hosted by BIrighton High School students and their families, and in turn, the host students travel to Europe to experience life as students there. Urban-suburban program, Rochester Area Interaatvie Tleelcommunications Netowkr (RAITN) links most area high schools and three colleges.

Soon the community at the east end of the bridge, included within the town of Brighton as set off from Boyle in 1814, organized Brighton District No. 4, and erected a small schoolhouse where Clinton and Mortimer streets cross today. Accordingly in 1827 the trustees of Brighton Districts 4 and 14 asked permission to incorporate a union school, and this time the legislature readily gave its consent. Shortly after a three-story building was completed at a cost of $7500 on a lot secured from Enos Stone, Professor S.D. Moore opened the school with forty scholars in August, 1828, attracting an enrollment of two hundred by the end of the quarter. Though tuition charges ranged between one and five dollars per quarter, the attendance grew to an average of three hundred for the second term. By the close of its first full year the High School, as it was proudly named, was able to report a larger total number of students than any of the fifty-four other academies in the state. Most of this enrollment was in the elementary division, representing a swollen district school conducted on the monitorial system, but at least thirty-seven were classed as academy students, which was an encouraging start, and the Regents granted the school $240.89 to assist in providing suitable insturciton. The most forthright attempt to provide a school adapted to the needs of the growing town was made by the trustees of Brighton Districts 4 and 14 under the special charter granted by the legislature to the Rochester High School in 1827. ...When the Reverend gilbert Morggan reopened the school as the Rochester Seminary in 1832, a staff of nine teachers attracted over 300 scholars and provided Rochester with one of the best schools in western New York. Most of its 350 students in 1833 were enrolled free of charge from the two Brighton districts in lieu of rent, but 106 were graded in the higher branches or special classes where theey paid fees totalling $1681 for th year.

A private high school was founded near Chestnut Street in 1827; nine years later, when Dr. Chester Dewey was principal, there were 560 students. This building burned in 1852, but by that time popular demand for a free public hgihs chool had been established. In 1857 the Rochester Central High School was opened in a part of the remodleled No. 1 school on Fitzhugh Street. This building proving inadequate, in 1873 the lot adjoining it was purchased and the Rochester Free Academy built at 13 South Fitzhugh Street. It was opened for school purposes in 1874 The building is now the hq of the Rochster Board of Education and houses the offices of the Superintendent of Schools.

The first high school associated with the Town of Brighton was the Rochester High School which opened in 1827. While this school was not strictly located in Brighton at its inception, it was located on land that had been annexed from Brighton by the Village of Rochesterville four years earlier and was overseen by Brighton School District #2 until the Rochester City School District came into being in 1841.

Tryon Town first school 1802 Two Brighton school districts, Nos. 4 and 14, established the first Rochester High School in 1827 by a special charter authorizing the ereection of a union school giving advanced courses. One and one-quarter acres of land were pruchased from Enos Stone and a three-story building erected at the former Temple and Cortland Streets. The costo fothe building when completed was $7500 instead of $5000 as planned. The Regents report of 1830 showeed 330 students, with most of the enrollment in the lementary division, and the school received $240.89 from the Literature Fund. The icnome being insufficinet to meet expenses, the school closed temporarily, but reopened in 1832 as a private academy, called the Rochester Seminary of General Education. the school was reported by the Regents as having that year 350 sutdents and recevining $318.46 from the literature Fund. The Rochester Seminary, after meeting the difficulties of competition of some new academies in the area and the private schools, was developing a new educational lprogram under Dr. Chester Dewwey who became the principal in 1836. It became completely separated from the districts and was re-organized in 1839 under the Regents as the Rochester Collgiate Insitute.

Notable alumni

 * Shirley Jackson (1934), author
 * Arthur Schneider (1948) four-time Emmy Award winning television editor
 * Thomas Richards (1961), former mayor of Rochester, NY
 * Richard Ben Cramer (1967), Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author
 * Dennis Mepham (1976), professional soccer player that played in the NASL and the MISL
 * Jason Grumet (1984), energy advisor to Barack Obama
 * Rodin Younessi (1986), professional race car driver
 * Dani Michaeli (1987), lead writer and member of SpongeBob SquarePants team nominated for a 2007 Creative Arts Emmy
 * Hudson Leick (1987), actor
 * Jess Klein (1991), singer-songwriter
 * Joe Nussbaum (1991), film director
 * Kristen Wiig (1991), actress and comedian, cast member of Saturday Night Live from 2005–2012, and an Academy Award and BAFTA nominee for Best Original Screenplay for her film Bridesmaids
 * Tina Monshipour Foster (1993), lawyer and director of the International Justice Network, focusing on providing "free legal assistance to victims of torture, illegal imprisonment, and political and religious persecution."
 * Jon Kolko (1996), designer and author
 * Jenna Mourey (2004), YouTube star and blogger
 * Winston Duke (2004), actor, appeared on Modern Family, Person of Interest, Marvel's Black Panther and upcoming Infinity War

Noted faculty

 * Ted Kinsman, a former physics teacher, is a world-renowned photographer and owner of Kinsman Physics Productions.
 * Ardis Mangione-Lindley, a former social studies teacher, is the daughter of Gap Mangione and niece of Chuck Mangione. She is married to New York Supreme Court justice Stephen Lindley. She is also an alumna.
 * Dan Wilmot, a social studies teacher, whose family owns and operates Wilmorite Properties and established the James P Wilmot Cancer Center at Strong Memorial Hospital.