Rippowam School
Rippowam High School was once a public high school in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. The school opened in the fall of 1961 as the second high school in the city. The school derived its name from the Native American tribe that inhabited Stamford and the surrounding area before European settlement.
Rippowam High School closed after the 1982-1983 school year[1] and, in the years before 2001, the building was used for adult education, temporary locations for both the Hart Elementary School and the Magnet Middle School, which became Scofield Magnet Middle School upon its move in 2001 to its permanent site on Scofieldtown Road (the former campus of the University of Connecticut, Stamford Campus) in North Stamford. Since 2001 its campus has been the site of Rippowam Middle School.
The Academy of Information Technology and Engineering (AITE), a regional magnet high school that formerly shared the building with Rippowam Middle School, has occupied its own state-of-the-art building behind Rippowam since August 2007.
Rippowam Middle School has a large, well-equipped auditorium, which it still shares with the AITE, and is home to its own drama group. The drama group has put on productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, High School Musical, Aladdin, A Christmas Carol, Oliver!, The Music Man, and Anything Goes. Rippowam Middle School is also the host school for the city of Stamford's All School Musical that involves every school in the city. The school's current mascot, the Raptor, was decided by popular vote in its first year as a middle school by the first class of sixth graders.
Alumni
- Marion Meadows, jazz musician
- Bobby Valentine, Major League Baseball player
- John Currin, American artist
- Laura Miller, Mayor of Dallas, TX (2002-2007)
- James Lapine, director and author