Daniel Hand High School

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{{Infobox school
| name = Daniel Hand High School
| image = Dhhs-paw-logo.jpeg
| district = Madison Public Schools
| superintendent = Craig Cooke
| motto = PRIDE - Perseverance, Respect, Integrity, Dedication, Enthusiasm
| established = {{start date and age|1884|p=1}}
| type = Public
| address = 286 Green Hill Rd
| city = [[Madison, Connecticut|Madison]]
| state = Connecticut 
| zipcode = 06443
| country = United States 
| ceeb = 070370
| coordinates = {{Coord|41.2934|-72.6199|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| students = 776 (2023-2024)<ref name=NCES>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=0902280&ID=090228000411|title=Daniel Hand High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=December 11, 2024}}</ref>
| grades = 9-12
| teaching_staff = 79.50 (FTE)<ref name=NCES/>
| ratio = 9.76<ref name=NCES/>
| principal = Anthony Salutari
| athletics_conference = [[Southern Connecticut Conference]] (SCC)
| mascot = Tiger
| colors = Black and gold <br> {{color box|#000000|border=silver}}{{color box|#FDB930|border=silver}}
| fight_song = On Wisconsin
| rival = [[Guilford High School (Connecticut)|Guilford]]
| feeder_schools = Polson Middle School
| website = {{URL|https://www.madison.k12.ct.us/daniel-hand-high-school}}
}}

'''Daniel Hand High School''' is a four-year comprehensive public [[high school]] in [[Madison, Connecticut]], United States. It serves grades 9 through 12 and is the only high school in Madison Public Schools.

==History==
Businessman [[Daniel Hand]], a native of Madison, funded construction of a high school for the city in 1884 at the price of $15,000 and relinquished property ownership to the local government. Under the name of '''Hand Academy''', it served the city until 1921, when the building was torn down and a schoolhouse for all grades was built. That school lasted forty years until Madison Public Schools constructed a purpose-built high school in 1961 and named it Daniel Hand High School.<ref>{{cite web |title=Number 27: Hand Academy |url=https://www.evartsarchives.org/pdfs/histories/26-Hand-Academy.pdf |website=Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives, Inc. |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>

==Athletics==
Daniel Hand athletic team's mascot are the Tigers and compete in the [[Southern Connecticut Conference]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Morelli |first1=Joe |title=Guilford blanks Hand to capture SCC title |url=https://www.nhregister.com/sports/article/SCC-boys-soccer-final-14815759.php |website=New Haven Register |accessdate=September 30, 2020 |date=November 7, 2019}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+State Championships
!Sport
!Year(s)
|-
|Baseball
|2021
|-
|Basketball (boys)<ref>{{cite web |title=Boys Basketball |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=934 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=June 15, 2023}}</ref>
|2022
|-
|Basketball (girls)<ref>{{cite web |title=Girls Basketball |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=954 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|1999, 2017
|-
|Cross country (boys)<ref>{{cite web |title=Cross Country |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=948 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|2007, 2008
|-
|Field hockey<ref>{{cite web |title=Field Hockey |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=950 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|2014, 2017, 2023
|-
|Football<ref>{{cite web |title=Football |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=952 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|1976, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2023
|-
|Golf (boys)<ref>{{cite web |title=Golf |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=968 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=June 15, 2023}}</ref>
|2012, 2013, 2019, 2021, 2023
|-
|Gymnastics<ref>{{cite web |title=Girls Gymnastics |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=956 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=June 15, 2023}}</ref>
|1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1993, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024
|-
|Hockey (boys)<ref>{{cite web |title=Boys Ice Hockey |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=936 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|2006, 2014
|-
|Lacrosse (boys)<ref>{{cite web
|title=Lacrosse
|url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=968 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=June 15, 2023}}</ref>
|2024
|-
|Soccer (boys)<ref>{{cite web |title=Boys Soccer |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=940 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|1993, 1995, 1997*, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
|-
|Softball<ref>{{cite web |title=Softball |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=974 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|2001
|-
|Swimming and diving (girls)<ref>{{cite web |title=Girls Swimming and Diving |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=962 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|2018
|-
|Tennis (boys)<ref>{{cite web |title=Boys Tennis |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=944 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|1980, 1981, 2013*, 2014, 2018
|-
|Tennis (girls)<ref>{{cite web |title=Girls Tennis |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=964 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|2011, 2012, 2017, 2019
|-
|Track and field (outdoor, boys)<ref name="Track">{{cite web |title=Outdoor Track |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=972 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|2010, 2017#, 2024
|-
|Track and field (outdoor, girls)
|2010
|-
|Wrestling<ref>{{cite web |title=Wrestling |url=http://ciacsports.com/site/?page_id=976 |website=Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>
|1978, 1982, 1983, 1995, 2012
|}

<nowiki>*</nowiki> denotes a co-championship

<nowiki>#</nowiki> denotes state open championship

==Performing arts==
DHHS has a competitive mixed-gender [[show choir]], "VIBE", and previously fielded the all-female "Aura".<ref>{{cite web |title=SCC: Viewing School - Daniel Hand High School |url=https://www.showchoir.com/choirs/school.php?id=800 |website=Show Choir Community |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref> VIBE has won regional-level championships before,<ref>{{cite web |last1=McCready |first1=Brian |title=Daniel Hand's VIBE Theme Stranger Things Wins Grand Championship |url=https://patch.com/connecticut/madison-ct/daniel-hand-s-vibe-theme-stranger-things-wins-grand-championship |website=Patch |accessdate=September 30, 2020 |date=March 8, 2019}}</ref> and is regarded as one of the most consistently successful choirs in New England.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Freidmann |first1=Megan |title=High school show choir to give ‘Stranger Things’ performance |url=https://www.nhregister.com/shoreline/article/High-school-show-choir-to-give-Stranger-13524637.php |website=New Haven Register |accessdate=September 30, 2020 |date=January 10, 2019}}</ref> The program has also hosted an annual competition, the Connecticut Classic, which has drawn choirs from as far as [[Mississippi]] and [[California]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Clinton High show choir wins grand championship at Alabama competition |url=https://www.wjtv.com/news/clinton-high-show-choir-wins-grand-championship-at-alabama-competition/amp/ |website=WJTV |accessdate=September 30, 2020}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==
*[[Jack Driscoll (American football)|Jack Driscoll]], NFL player for the [[Philadelphia Eagles]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Amore|first1=Dom|date=April 25, 2020|title=Eagles nab Hand-Madison lineman Jack Driscoll in NFL Draft’s 4th round|url=https://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-nfl-draft-eagles-jack-driscoll-20200426-20200425-wih7zimnxzanxdoqsn5qt2jpiq-story.html|website=Hartford Courant|accessdate=April 26, 2020}}</ref>
*[[Chris Flanagan (broadcaster)|Chris Flanagan]], broadcaster in the [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] Television market
*[[Joe Trapani]], basketball player<ref>[http://www.bceagles.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/joe_trapani_296565.html Joe Trapani Boston College athletic profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114003601/http://www.bceagles.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/joe_trapani_296565.html |date=2013-11-14 }}</ref>
*[[Streeter Seidell]], head writer for ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' and formerly [[CollegeHumor]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nyberg |first1=Ann |title=Local writer brings comedic work to television |url=https://www.wtnh.com/on-air/nyberg/local-writer-brings-comedic-work-to-television_20180403095939303/1097396010 |website=WTNH |date=21 November 2017 |quote=Streeter Seidell grew up in Madison, went to Daniel Hand High School and became a comedy writer. |access-date=2 February 2019 |archive-date=3 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203082022/https://www.wtnh.com/on-air/nyberg/local-writer-brings-comedic-work-to-television_20180403095939303/1097396010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Madison Hamburg, director of the documentary ''[[Murder on Middle Beach]]''

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.madison.k12.ct.us/daniel-hand-high-school}}

{{Southern Connecticut Conference}}

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[[Category:Madison, Connecticut]]
[[Category:Schools in New Haven County, Connecticut]]
[[Category:Public high schools in Connecticut]]
[[Category:Educational institutions established in 1884]]
[[Category:1884 establishments in Connecticut]]

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