LYMAN HALL HIGH SCHOOL

'Lyman Hall High School' is a public high school located at 70 Pond Hill Road in Wallingford, Connecticut. It is part of the Wallingford School System.

Contents

Mission Statement

History

Academic Programs

Agricultural Education

Advanced Placement

Athletics

Trojan Times

Administration

Bomb Threats

External Links

Mission Statement

Lyman Hall High School's Mission Statement is:

'''At Lyman Hall High School, all students can achieve at high levels in a community that acknowledges its diversity and provides challenging programs designed to meet individual needs.'''

History

Lyman Hall High School is named in honor of Lyman Hall, a signer of the Declaration of Independence who was born in Wallingford on April 12, 1724.
The school's original location was on South Main Street, and is the current location of Wallingford's Town Hall. In the year 1957 the school was moved to its current location in southeast Wallingford.

Academic Programs

Lyman Hall High School is known throughout the state of Connecticut for its wide range of academic courses. The school is one of only four in the entire state of Connecticut that offers courses in all of the career clusters identified by the Department of Education.In addition to courses in what are considered normal academic areas, i.e. mathematics and science, students can elect to take courses in Agriculture, Transportation Technologies, Communication Technologies, Construction Technologies, Food Service, Family and Consumer Science, and Medical Careers.

Agricultural Education

Lyman Hall is a Regional Vocational Agricultural Education Center. Lyman Hall enrolls 225 students from Wallingford and nine surrounding towns for this program.

Advanced Placement

Lyman Hall features one of the foremost Advanced Placement programs in the state of Connecticut. AP courses taught at Lyman Hall span across Science, Math, Social Studies, Music, and English. The AP Social Studies program is of special note, including courses taught in United States History, Government and Politics: Comparative, Government and Politics: American, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Psychology, European History, and most recently World History.
Christopher Buchas can be attributed with the founding of the AP program at Lyman Hall, although University of Connecticut Co-op classes have been offered for many years.

Athletics

Trojan Times

The Trojan Times in Lyman Hall's school newspaper. It is put together by an editorial board that meets after school, using articles written by journalism classes and other students. If interested, one can view archives of old articles.

Administration

Lyman Hall High School's Administration consists of:

Principal: David C.Bryant
Vice-Principals: Bonnie Roman, Barry O'Neill

Bomb Threats

Lyman Hall High School experiences an unusually high amount of "bomb threats." In recent years, the first of which occurred in the spring of 2000, when a bomb threat was received indicating that a bomb would be left in the C Hall bathroom. School officials allowed students the day off if they felt it was unsafe. Athletes, however, had to be in school in order to compete in any game that day, according to a CIAC rule. As a result, Lyman Hall experienced its smallest student population since 1954 with only 200 students showing up.
Since then, bomb threats have been used as a method to disrupt class and grant early dismissal. Bomb threats normally result in an evacuation of the school, followed by a migration of students to adjacent Dag Hammarskjold Middle School.

External Links

Hall High School's Official Website.