Williamsville East High School is one of the three Williamsville high schools located in the Williamsville Central School District in Williamsville, New York. The other two high schools in the district are Williamsville North High School and Williamsville South High School. Of the three, Williamsville East is unique for having open classrooms, being constructed without any interior walls on the upper two floors of the three-story building. For the 2004-2005 school year, there was an enrollment of 1,048 students.
Education
Williamsville East has a wide range of Advanced Placement courses in many areas of study. All students are required to take the New York State Regents exams as required by the state for graduation. Williamsville East offers two different New York State certified diplomas: the Regents diploma and the Advanced Regents Diploma. The Advanced Regents diploma has more requirements in the math and sciences than the Regents diploma. Williamsville East does have a Foreign Language requirement, and every student must fulfill it by passing the regents exam in that language, usually in the end of the sophomore or junior years.
English/Language Arts
The English Department offers four levels of full-year English courses, as well as half-year courses (called "Fifth Credit Courses") such as Creative Writing, Journalism, Theatre, Media Literacy, Speech and Communication, LGBT literature, and Film Study. Most students—including accelerated 9th graders and 10th, 11th, and 12th graders—are enrolled in English (10-12), which has a set curriculum. There is a standard summer reading assignment where students are allowed to choose from a list of books and then must take notes and write responses. When the school year begins, all students are allowed to choose themed courses taught by specific teachers. These first two marking periods are spent reading at least one work of fiction. Towards the end of the first semester, a large midterm research project is assigned with a theme and final project. Past themes have included historical fiction (required a short fictional account of a period in history), biography (required a creative project included hypothetical letters and memoirs written by a specific person), and debate (required research on a controversy and a final in-class presentation). For the second semester, each student is given the option to choose a new teacher. The third marking period is a more creative project, where each student must keep a writer's notebook and write a few entries a week. The fourth and last marking period is a Shakespeare unit where every class reads a specific Shakespeare play and then is given a portion of the play to perform.
The Advanced Placement courses that Williamsville East offers include English Language and English Literature. The first is an addendum to the regular English (10-12) course taken in junior year, which includes weekly meetings, extra reading, and extra assignments. The latter is a separate course taught only in senior year. The curriculum changes from year to year and is in preparation for the final AP exam in May.
Juniors are also required for extra in-class sessions to prepare for the New York State Regents Examinations at the end of the school year.
Mathematics
The highly-regarded Math Department includes both Regents and Honors level courses, Statistics, and Advanced Placement Calculus at both the AB and BC levels. There is also a non-AP level of Calculus which offers a more simplified curriculum than that of the Advanced Placement courses. This course is adequate preparation for college-level calculus courses, as it covers many of the same material, but at not the same depth as the AP Calculus AB and BC courses.
The Math department offers various course tracks. Most students take Math 1R in freshman year, Math 2R in the sophomore year (and the Math A Regents exam), Math 3R in the junior year, and Math 4R in the senior year (with the Math B Regents exam). There is also a class in the fundamentals of algebra offered as a preparation for Math 1R for students that require it. For students who have taken accelerated math courses in middle school (Math 1R or 1A), in the freshman year they place into Math 2R or Math 2A (which takes the Math A Regents exam in lieu of a midterm), Math 3R of 3A (which takes the Math B exam in lieu of a final) as a sophomore, Math 4R or 4A as a junior, and then AP Calculus AB/BC or Math/Calculus 5, the non AP-calculus class.
A select group of students also take math outside the school through the Gifted Math Program at State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY AB, or UB for short)
Social Studies
The graduation requirement includes four years of Social Studies. The typical track for students is to take Global Studies I in the freshman year and Global Studies II in the sophomore year, ending with the New York State Regents exam at the end of the sophomore year. In the junior year, most students take either Regents-level or AP United States History. In the senior year, most students take one semester of Government and one semester of Economics. However, as an alternative students may take the AP Government and Politics and AP Macroeconomics on alternating days for both semesters, culminating in the AP exam in early May. The Social Studies department also offers AP European History for interested students, as well as a Regents level and AP Psychology.
The Government courses at Williamsville East have a final project which requires a minimum of 20 hours of civic service, as well as attending school board and town board meetings, to be performed over the course of the semester for Regents-level or the year for AP-level. Students must write a final paper in the end explaining the role that they played in their community through their volunteer hours.
Sciences
The typical track for sciences at Williamsville East is as follows: Regents-level Earth Science in the freshman year, Biology (either Advanced (Honors) or Regents-level) in the sophomore year, Chemistry (either Advanced (Honors) or Regents-level) in the junior year, and Regents Physics or Environmental Studies in the senior year. As well, the science departments offer courses in AP Biology, AP Living Environment, AP Chemistry, and AP Physics which have as prerequisites the associated regents courses. Many accelerated students who have taken Regents Earth Science in high school opt to take one or two of the AP sciences in their fourth years (resulting in either summer regents courses in order to fulfill prerequisites or taking two sciences courses in one year). For advanced students, the track of science courses usually is, with some deviation: Advanced Biology in the freshman year, Advanced Chemistry and/or AP Biology in the Sophomore year, AP Chemistry, AP Biology or Regents Physics in the Junior Year, and AP Physics, Regents Physics or Environmental Studies in the Senior year. It is important to note that there is no specified order that the regents-level earth science, biology, chemistry, physics and environmental studies courses must be taken, but they are usually taken in this order out of tradition and ease.
Foreign Language
East offers three foreign languages for study; French, Spanish, and Latin. Typically students continue the language they began in middle school (French or Spanish), or switch and start anew with the Latin Program. The National Latin Exam is administered every year to select students. For all languages, the regents exam in that language is usually taken at the end of the junior year, unless in the accelerated track, where the language regents exam is taken at the end of the sophomore year. East offers four years of study in all three languages, as well as an AP course in French Language, Spanish Language, and Latin: Virgil. Study in the other foreign language APs can be achieved through the "independent study" program, where a teacher is chosen as an adviser who guides the student's work in learning the material. Students may also attend German classes by taking a bus to Williamsville North High School
"Independent studies" can be done through any department, and in any field, as long as there is a teacher who consents to advise the student. An alternative to independent studies is to take a class at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY AB, or UB for short). This is usually done when the school no longer has a class at the level of study of the student.
Music
The Song, "Super Freak" by Rick James is about a former student of Williamsville East.
Over half of the students in the school are involved in the music program.
Williamsville East currently has the following ensembles: a Symphonic Orchestra (audition required for entry), a String Orchestra (under the direction of Mr. Wayne Moose), a Wind Ensemble (audition required for entry), a Concert Band, a Jazz Ensemble (audition required for entry), a Chorale (audition required for entry), a Mixed Chorus and a Women's Chorus. There is also a Jazz Band (under the direction of Mr. Carl Mazzio) and a Vocal Jazz group that practice before school on a weekly basis. The band groups are under the direction of Dr. Stephen Shewan, and the choral groups are under the direction of Ms. Maureen Reilly. The Jazz Ensemble is under the co-direction of Mr. Moose and Dr. Shewan.
The music department also offers courses in Music Theory, AP Music Theory (taught by Ms. Reilly), and Jazz Improvisation (co-taught by Dr. Shewan and Mr. Moose).
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