Staples High School is a public high school in Westport, Connecticut, United States. It is named after Horace Staples, who founded the school on April 26, 1884. Westport is one of eight school districts in District Reference Group A (along with Darien, Easton, New Canaan, Redding, Ridgefield, Weston, and Wilton).
Campus
The school was first located at Riverside Avenue in a three-level red brick building. As of 2020, the neighborhood around the high school is known as the Staples census-designated place.
History
Seeing the "town's lack of progress in education," Horace Staples, a wealthy businessman with interests in shipping, hardware sales, and banking, founded Staples High School.
On June 24, 1887, Staples High School conferred its first high school diplomas to six female students who comprised its first graduating class.
In 1909, the town of Westport accepted control of Staples High School from the Horace Staples estate. The paper has also received the rank of First Place with "Special Honors" from the American Scholastic Press Association since 2001 and has been dubbed "the best school paper in the state" by the Hartford Courant.
Notable alumni
- Lynsey Addario, photojournalist
- Britt Baron, actress
- Ben Casparius, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Marilyn Briggs (1970), professionally known as Marilyn Chambers, model and adult film actress
- Kevin Conroy, actor
- John DiBartolomeo, American-Israeli basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Cynthia Gibb, actress
- Luke Greenfield, director
- Will Haskell, Connecticut State Senator
- Win Headley, American football player
- Tyler Hicks, photojournalist
- Stew Leonard Jr., President and CEO of Stew Leonard's
- Paul Lieberstein, screenwriter, actor and producer
- Mariangela Lisanti, theoretical physicist
- Christopher Lloyd (1957), Emmy Award winning actor
- Pamela Sue Martin, actress
- Mike Noonan, soccer coach
- Justin Paul, of the team Pasek and Paul, is a Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist.
- Harry Rodrigues, record producer
- Jane Yolen, children's book author