About Us

Why Us

Full Day UPK

Starting with the 2023-24 school year

92%

Graduation rate in 2022

62 %

Earned an Advanced Regents Diploma

Musical Excellence

Best Communities for Music Education District by the NAMM Foundation two years running

Award winning staff

2021-22 Jane Golub No Place for Hate Educator Award winning teachers April Nedwell and Abby Brigham

$10 million

Amount raised for charities and individuals in need by our South High Marathon Dance over it's 43 years!

Spotlight

Maria Jennings | Pamela Gonyea | Friedrich Strassburg stand in an office

Pam, Fred and Maria make it happen, and often unbeknownst to most of us.

Bristie Tracy sits in her car facing the camera

"The students are lucky to have such an amazing, caring Nurse overlooking them, and the staff are even luckier that we have her never ending support and knowledge."

2023 Best Communities for Music Education logo with white grad hat

SGF gets 2023 Best Communities for Music Education designation for second year in a row!

Students wearing gray shirts hold a sign showing the amount raised of $630,111.

South High Marathon Dance raises $630,111 for 2023.

Players in blue shirts gather to cheer

Battle for the Bridge 2023 raised $4,523 for charity.

Vocal Point team, dressed in blue, hold the certificate naming them the winners.

SGF Vocal Point - First place in the Northeast Quarterfinal of the International Championship of High School A Cappella.

Hazel Crossman stands against a red wall

2023 Post Star Teen Excellence winner South High Senior Hazel Crossman.

Two students sit smiling with a stuffed dog between them.

Everybody Reads 2023 brings together our elementary school and the larger South Glens Falls Community