Suffern High School

Suffern High School is a public high school in the Suffern Central School District (formerly known as the Ramapo Central School District) located in Suffern, New York. The school's mascot is a mountain lion (Mountie). Its yearbook is the Panorama. In 2015, Newsweek magazine ranked Suffern High in the top 500 high schools in the United States at number 439.^[4]

Suffern High School
Location
49 Viola Road Suffern , (Rockland County) , New York 10901 United States
Coordinates	41°8′3″N 74°6′35″W
Information
School type	Public, High school
Founded	1904; 121 years ago (1904)[1]
School district	Suffern Central School District
Principal	Paul Adler[2]
Teaching staff	107.63 (FTE) (2018–19)[3]
Grades	9–12[3]
Number of students	1,451 (2018–19)[3]
Student to teacher ratio	13.48 (2018–19)[3]
Campus	Suburban[3]
Color(s)	Navy Blue   Carolina Blue   White
Mascot	Mountain lion
Nickname	Mountie
Website	Official website
Last updated: July 5, 2019; 6 years ago (2019-07-05)

Academics

Suffern High School offers many honors level classes, AP classes, and classes affiliated with the Syracuse University Project Advance program, the University of Cambridge, and SUNY Albany are offered as well.

Athletics

Suffern High offers many sports throughout the year that take place both on and off campus; the school sports team is the Mounties. Some sports games are played at Suffern Middle School, located close to the high school. The following sports are available at Suffern (boys and girls teams are available unless noted):^[5]

• Cross country
• Football (boys)
• Soccer
• Volleyball
• Field hockey (girls)
• Cheerleading (girls)
• Swimming
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Ice hockey (boys)
• Indoor track
• Wrestling (boys)
• Gymnastics (girls)
• Skiing
• Tennis
• Track & field
• Crew
• Baseball (boys)
• Softball (girls)
• Lacrosse
• Golf
• ^[6]

Hockey

On March 11, 2012 Suffern High School won the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) state Hockey championship.^[7] They would win again in 2022, and reach the state finals in 2023.

In March 2024 Suffern HS Hockey team, The Mounties, became Hockey New York State NYSPHSAA Division 1 Champions. This is the Mounties second championship in three years. The Mounties are now one of eight programs in the entire New York state to win four or more state championships.

On March 16, 2025, Suffern High won the New York State NYSPHSAA Division 1 hockey championship for the 2nd year in a row and has won the championship in 3 of the last 4 years putting them into a select group of high schools in New York that have won 4 or more championships.

Notable alumni

• Christine Andreas (1969), Broadway performer and cabaret singer.^{[citation needed]}
• Tony DeFrancesco, former MLB interim manager with the Houston Astros^{[citation needed]}
• Mary Frances Gunner (1911), playwright^[8]
• Dan Gurewitch (2002), writer and comedian^{[citation needed]}
• Hendrik Hertzberg – chief speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter.^[9]
• Sidney Hertzberg – New York Knicks basketball player^{[citation needed]}
• Howard Hoffman (1972), broadcast performer^[10]
• Mike Lawler, U.S. Representative from New York^[11]
• Joe Lockhart – press secretary for President Bill Clinton^[12]
• Thomas Meehan – musical writer^{[citation needed]}
• Walt Weiss – Former MLB player and manager^[13]