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The fourth annual Adult Summer Reading Campaign
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Barrows
Life of Pi by Yan Martel
Copies of each book will be available to the first 100 adults.
 Please stop by 1031 Elm St. or
Peekskill Middle School 212 Ringgold St.
 to pick up your copy!
In September readers will share their reactions to the
 “book of their choice”

Hudson Valley Congressman John Hall and California Congressman
George Miller held a roundtable discussion  about the Student Aid
and Fiscal Responsibility Act.  Participating in the discussion were
college admissions and financial aid staff, high school guidance
counselors as well as high school and college students and families.
 
 
 

Peekskill High School Rated in Top 1,000 High Schools in the U.S. by Newsweek Magazine
 
 
Each year, Newsweek picks the best high schools in the country based on how hard school staffs work to challenge students with advanced placement college-level courses and tests. Just over 1600 schools—only six percent of the 26,000 public high schools in the U.S.—made the list. Based on the Newsweek formula, Peekskill High School is rated #719 in the nation.
Newsweek calculates the school’s ranking by taking the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge (AICE) tests given at a school each year and divides by the number of seniors graduating in May or June.  All public schools that achieved a ratio of at least 1.000, meaning they had as many tests in 2009 as they had graduates, were put on the list on the NEWSWEEK website. Each list is based on the previous year's data, so the 2010 list has each school's numbers for 2009.  
According to Principal Vincent Burruano, “We, at Peekskill High School, provide our students with many different opportunities for intellectual growth.  We encourage our students to take the more challenging and rigorous courses such as AP and college level courses as preparation for college and life beyond high school.  We are proud that so many of our students have responded by enrolling in these courses, and we will continue to inspire our students to aspire!”



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Today, 7/30/2010
High: 80 Low: 58
Mostly clear
10% chance of precipitation.
Tomorrow, 7/31/2010
High: 79 Low: 55
Partly cloudy
5% chance of precipitation.

 
 
New! Peekskill City School District will begin
 to replace most mailings and newsletters
with e-mail communication.  If you wish
 to receive district communications electronically,
 please look under the tab "FORMS"
above, and fill in the requested information.