Mount Pleasant High School (Delaware)

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Mount Pleasant High School
Address
Map
5201 Washington Street

Wilmington
,
Delaware

United States
Coordinates39°46′21″N 75°30′17″W / 39.7726°N 75.5046°W / 39.7726; -75.5046Coordinates: 39°46′21″N 75°30′17″W / 39.7726°N 75.5046°W / 39.7726; -75.5046
Information
TypePublic
MottoMount P.R.I.D.E.
Established1830; 194 years ago (1830)
School districtBrandywine School District[1]
PrincipalCuri Calderón-Lacy (2019—present)
Faculty70 (FTE) (2019—2020)[1]
Grades9—12[1]
Enrollment1,062 (2019—2020)[1]
Color(s)Green and white   
Athletics conferenceBlue Hen Conference - Flight A
MascotGreen Knights
NicknameMount, MPHS
RivalConcord High School, Brandywine High School
YearbookThe Green Leaf
Websitebrandywineschools.org/mphs

Mount Pleasant High School (MPHS) is a public secondary school located in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States.[2] MPHS was the first public high school in Delaware to offer the International Baccalaureate program.[3]

History

After Delaware passed the Free School Act in 1829, the state began pulling together their first public school system; the very first school in Mount Pleasant, located in School District #2, was built soon after.[4] The original schoolhouse still stands today and is located on an acre of land now part of Bellevue State Park.[5] The community continued to grow and required a larger school, so in 1865, a new building was built near Mount Pleasant Methodist Church.[4] This new school taught grades one through eight and gradually added nine through twelve as the students aged.[4]

In 1932, they required even more space; what is now Mount Pleasant Elementary School was built to accommodate the still-growing population and named the Mount Pleasant School.[4][6][7] However, only grades one through nine were offered.[4][6] By 1947, enough families had moved into the area that a separate four-year high school had become a necessity, so Mount Pleasant School transitioned into Mount Pleasant Senior High School and the lower grades were split between Silverside and Edgemoore Elementary Schools.[4][8] Construction of a new high school building began in 1953 and, in September 1958, MPHS moved to its current location on Washington.[4][9]

The school celebrated its 175th anniversary in a series of events during homecoming weekend, October 14 and 15, 2005, including the inaugural Mount Pleasant Hall of Fame.[10]

Academics

In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked MPHS #2,885 of more than 24,000 high schools nationally.[11]

MPHS' graduation rate for the 2018–2019 academic year was 90%.[11]

Athletics

MPHS offers football, cheerleading, cross country, field hockey, boys' and girls' soccer, unified flag football, girls and boys' volleyball, boys' and girls' basketball, swimming, indoor track, unified basketball, wrestling, baseball, golf, boys' and girls' lacrosse, softball, boys' and girls' tennis, track & field, and unified track & field.[12] They compete in the Blue Hen Conference, Flight A.[13][14]

Activities

Mount Pleasant is home to WMPH 91.7 FM, which began broadcasting on October 1, 1969, and was Delaware's only public high school radio station until Thomas McKean High School began broadcasting at WHMS 88.1 FM in 1998.[15]

Some of the clubs offered at MPHS are Army JROTC, Black Student Union, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America, Girls Empowered, National Honor Society, VoluntHeroes, and yearbook.[16]

Mount Pleasant puts on a fall play and a spring musical every year; past productions include Midsummer/Jersey (fall 2015), Ragtime (spring 2016), Peter/Wendy (fall 2016), Oklahoma! (spring 2017), The Crucible (fall 2017), Mary Poppins (spring 2018), Almost, Maine (fall 2018), Pippin (spring 2019), The Laramie Project (fall 2019), Chicago (spring 2020 - cancelled due to COVID-19),[17] Love/Sick (fall 2021), and Freaky Friday (spring 2022).

MPHS' music department offers concert bands, jazz band, marching band, choral, guitar, guitar quartet, early music ensemble, music technology and composition, Music Boosters Association, chorale, concert choir, treble choir, and show choir.[18]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Mount Pleasant High School". National Center for Education Statistics. n.d. Archived from the original on 2021-07-11. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  2. ^ "Home". Mount Pleasant High School. Retrieved 2021-06-21. 5201 Washington Street Extension Wilmington, DE 19809 - The school is not in the Wilmington city limits, as seen in a comparison with the zoning map as of February 2021.
  3. ^ Fuetsch, Michele (March 20, 2004). "International Baccalaureate program moves kids closer to college". www1.udel.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Mount Pleasant History". Brandywine School District. n.d. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  5. ^ "Mount Pleasant School".
  6. ^ a b "Mt. Pleasant dist. to vote on new school". The Evening Journal. 1931-07-08. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-07-11 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Mt. Pleasant School to be ready in January". The News Journal. 1932-08-25. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-07-11 – via newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Mt. Pleasant board develops plans for 12-grade school". The News Journal. 1947-04-08. p. 15. Retrieved 2021-07-11 – via newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "School building to open Sept. 4". The Morning News. 1958-08-01. p. 8. Retrieved 2021-07-11 – via newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Dantinne, Clint (n.d.). "Mount Pleasant Schools". Clint Dantinne. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  11. ^ a b "Mount Pleasant High School". U.S. News & World Report. 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-07-11. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  12. ^ "Mt.Pleasant - GreenKnightsSports". Mount Pleasant High School. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  13. ^ "Mt.Pleasant - GreenKnightsSports". www.greenknightssports.com. Retrieved 2020-11-19.
  14. ^ Greene, Sean (2020-12-21). "Newark set to rejoin Flight A starting in 2021-22". Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  15. ^ "WMPH History and Documents".
  16. ^ "Activities". Mount Pleasant High School. n.d. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
  17. ^ "Mount Pleasant High School Drama". Mount Pleasant High School. n.d. Archived from the original on 2021-07-12. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  18. ^ "Mount Pleasant High School Music Department". Mount Pleasant High School. n.d. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  19. ^ "Wilmington native receives gospel award". The News Journal. Delaware, Wilmington. November 12, 2006. p. 30. Retrieved June 3, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Mt. Pleasant High School nominates six for its Hall of Fame". Hockessin Community News. 2011-10-20. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  21. ^ "Former Senator Patricia M. Blevins (D)". Delaware General Assembly. n.d. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  22. ^ "Super 91.7 WMPH Radio History". Mount Pleasant High School. n.d. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  23. ^ "BSD alumni". Brandywine School District. n.d. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  24. ^ Price, Betsy (2014-12-26). "His idea of a place to propose? BDub's parking lot". Delaware Online. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
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