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[quote=Anonymous]And the nearby public co-ed competition:

Performance and ratings[edit]
The Harriton Science Olympiad Team has placed among the top 10 at the Science Olympiad National Tournament for 21 consecutive years, winning three national championships and 16 consecutive state championships in that span.[3][4]

Harriton's graduation rate is 99%[5] and college matriculation rate is 96%. Harriton typically has a high Ivy League matriculation rate, with 36 of 196 (20%) seniors from the class of 2011 attending Ivy League universities. Seniors also attend other highly ranked institutions, with 36% of the class of 2011 attending a top-50 U.S. News and World Report-ranked college or university. The most popular universities among members of the class of 2011 include the Pennsylvania State University, Tulane University, Drexel University, Brown University, and Dartmouth College.[6]

Harriton is one of fewer than 3% of US public high schools that offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program.[7]

History[edit]
In 1697, William Penn sold a 700 acre (2.8 km²) tract of land to Rowland Ellis. Years later, Ellis sold his home to Richard Harrison, who had married a local woman named Hannah Norris. Some of the land holdings of her family were known as "Norriton". Following their marriage the Harrison couple's holdings were renamed "Harriton".

Facilities[edit]
Harriton High School features a 328,000-square-foot (30,500 m2) building and campus that includes teacher and student parking lots and a synthetic turf football stadium, with features designed to make Harriton environment-friendly and LEED-certified. The building captures and filters rain water for non-potable use in plumbing systems. The roof, painted a light hue, reflects excess sun energy, helping maintain the building's temperature and obviating the need for excessive use of air conditioning. Harriton further conserves energy through its motion-detecting and intensity-detecting lights; hallways and classrooms automatically shut off lights in the absence of movement and dim lights in the presence of adequate sunlight. The three-floor building surrounds a grassy courtyard. Other notable facilities include a greenhouse, a college-style lecture hall with tiered seating, a music technology laboratory, and a black-box theater.[9][10][11][12]

Harriton has pioneered a one-to-one laptop initiative in which each student receives an education version Macbook Air for at-home and in-school use during the academic year. Since the 2008 school year, students have had access to the computers, which are bundled with a plethora of software, including Adobe Creative Suite products, allowing students to become familiar with the industry's newest and most innovative computer programs[/quote]

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