City Honors School

That's a wrap! We appreciate the generosity of our school community during Give716! We can't wait to share the results.

This is the last chance to support the CH/FMP Foundation with Give716. Let's make Chiron proud and finish strong!

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6:00 p.m.: Keybank is matching all donations up to $15,000.
7:00 p.m.: First 325 donors of $71.60 or more will receive a Shop 716 $25 gift card.
8:00 p.m.: First 200 donors of $171.60 or more will receive a Bills signed mini helmet.
9:00 p.m.: First 100 donors of $117.60 or more will receive a pair of Sabres preseason tickets.

We are on a roll with Give716! Let's keep it going, Centaurs.

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1:00 p.m.: M&T Bank is matching donations up to $25,000.
2:00 p.m.: First 200 donors of $50 or more will receive a Cultural Hour gift card
3:00 p.m.: First 200 donors of $50 or more will receive a pair of Bisons tickets.
4:00 p.m.: First 300 donors of $71.60 or more will receive a limited edition New Era cap.
5:00 p.m.: Wegmans is matching all donations up to $25,000.

Happy 716 Day! Thank you so much to everyone who made donations yesterday.

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Give716 continues this morning with the following incentives and matching power hours:

7:00 a.m.: Trusted Nurse Staffing will match donations up to $10,000.
8:00 a.m.: First 100 donors of $117.60 or more will receive a pair of Bills preseason tickets.
9:00 a.m.: Highmark will match donations up to $25,000.
10:00 a.m.: First 300 donors of $50 or more receive a Bandits signed lacrosse ball.
11:00 a.m.: First 200 donors of $171.60 or more will receive a Bills signed mini helmet.
12:00 p.m.: First 325 donors of $71.60 or more will receive a Shop 716 $25 gift card.

Below are the Give716 incentives and matching power hours for tonight! Let's start strong, Centaurs!

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8:00 p.m.: First 100 donors of $716 or more receive a jersey autographed by one Bills player. (Players include: Allen, Coleman, Cook, Dawkins, Kincaid, and Milano)

9:00 p.m.: All donations will be matched by the McDermott's up to $20,000.

10:00 p.m.: First 400 donors of $171.60 or more receive a mini helmet autographed by one Sabres player.

Give716 is starting now! The first 3,000 donors to give $71.60 or more will receive a special edition Give716 t-shirt AND the Buffalo Bills Foundation & Buffalo Sabres Foundation are matching all donations up to $50,000.

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Are you ready Centaurs? Today is the Day! Give716 starts at 7:16 p.m.

Check out the incentives and matching power hours we have in store for you!

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The City Honors/Fosdick-Masten Park Foundation raises funds to support the needs of current and future centaurs. From athletics to academic competitions, your gifts help ensure that City Honors students have a unique and enriching experience. We invite our City Honors community to make a gift of any size during Give 716 Day starting Monday, July 15 at 7:16 p.m. We'll have plenty of fun challenges and matching hours!

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A‘nia Jackson ‘26 and Avery Williams ‘26 are included in this Sean Kirst Buffalo News article about the ‘5/14 Blues Memorial’. CHS visual arts faculty and students, alongside NEA sponsored artists, used a special process to create blue flags throughout the spring as a part of this project. https://buffalonews.com/news/local/column/sean-kirst-blues-memorial-blue-flag-initiative-tops-massacre-east-side-buffalo/article_5c86e856-4084-11ef-bc9b-3bcf4bb2a4dd.html

Congrats to Nevaeh Foster ‘24! Nevaeh was one of our CLRI Scholars for Justice and recently received her IB Diploma.

Scholar Athletes of the Year: City Honors’ Nevaeh Foster, Canisius’ Matthew Hassenfratz BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — City Honors’ Nevaeh Foster and Canisius’ Matthew Hassenfratz were recognized as two of News 4’s male and female Scholar Athletes of the Month earlier this school …

Congratulations to Class of ‘24 🎓🎉and thank you to Dr. Jennifer Hanley ‘02 Astronomer and Planetary Scientist at Lowell Observatory, for making the trip from Flagstaff to serve as our keynote. Photos from the event and the destinations of the class coming later this week!

City Honors School celebrates Class of 2024 City Honors School is celebrating its class of 2024 after a hosting a graduation ceremony at Kleinhans Music Hall on Thursday night.

We are saddened to share the news of the death of Mrs. Theresa Pope. Mrs. Pope served as an Assistant Principal at City Honors in the 1990s and her daughter Michea is a 1984 alum.

Her former students remember her as "tough but fair" and all knew that she really cared about them.

Her former colleague, Jim Duggan, stated that teachers who worked with her agreed that she was unfailingly fair and had the best interests of her students at heart. She never sought the limelight, but was one of the first to volunteer when assistance was needed.

The thoughts and prayers of the entire City Honors community are with the Pope family during this difficult time.

Theresa E. Pope, 80, teacher and assistant principal in Buffalo schools Jan. 8, 1944 – June 16, 2024

Congrats to our senior scholar athletes who signed their NCAA letters of commitment today as well as two who were awarded the Cline Memorial Scholarship! All six of these Centaurs will be missed on the Hilltop for the leadership and determination they brought to their teams!:
-Lydia Lane, Division III Soccer, Keuka College
-Will Krause, Division III Lacrosse, SUNY Purchase
-Annaleis Milne, Division III Soccer, Houghton University
-Dean Tripp, Division III Baseball, Hilbert College
-Grace Wheeler, Cline Memorial Scholarship, Softball
-Eamon Langdon, Cline Memorial Scholarship, Baseball
WNY Athletics Buffalo News Prep Talk

Attention City Honors alums and families!
Last call! 📣 We have a great crowd coming to Party on the Wharf this coming Tuesday, June 18. We can’t wait to see you there! The forecast is all 😎☀️for an evening on the water.

Tickets are only on sale through Sunday, so don’t delay! Link for tickets in the comments.

Can’t make it? You can show your support from home by purchasing raffle tickets for any of these items:

🪩🕺🏼Justin Timberlake
🍌⚾️Savannah Bananas
🍷Fully stocked wine wagon
💙❤️Josh Allen signed helmet
💛💙Tage Thompson signed jersey
🪩🎶Middle School Charity Ball tix with a limo🎓Front row graduation seats

Here’s a chance to get tickets to the hugely popular and sold out SAVANNAH BANANAS game in Buffalo on July 7! For just $20 per chance you could win 4 suite tickets! Two winners will be drawn!
Bananas not your thing? Well how about a chance to win 4 suite tickets to see JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE in concert? Also just $20 per chance!
Click here to purchase tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/city-honors-party-on-the-wharf-2024-tickets-885249082837?aff=oddtdtcreator
Winners will be randomly drawn on June 30th. All proceeds support City Honors School, BPS #195. Special thanks to sponsors Dave & Adam’s Card World and Delaware North!

Drawing straws to decide who is going to remind our 8th graders we have to leave this gorgeous place later today and go back to school tomorrow 😳😢Camp Pathfinder Algonquin Campership Fund

8th grade Centaurs are enjoying four days of bliss at Camp Pathfinder right now! Thank you to Algonquin Campership Fund and the City Honors/FMP Foundation for making this life changing experience possible for our students since 2014!

City Honors Students recently participated 5/14 Blue Flag Initiative in honor of the lives taken during the 5/14 Racially-Motivated Mass Shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue. The 5/14 Blue Flag Initiative is sponsored by the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. It is also a collaboration between the Mayor Byron W. Brown, the City of Buffalo Common Council, the Buffalo Public Schools, the CEPA Gallery, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and local artists Brandon Watson and Brendan Bannon
Students created blue cyanotype-design flags that will be hung throughout the city of Buffalo. Messages of hope and kindness were expressed both in written word and visual images in a one-of-a-kind photogram flag square. Thank you to CHS visual arts teachers Mrs. Dylewski, Ms. Moda and Mrs. Root for making this initiative possible for our students!

Kudos to a young and upstart CHS team that captured third place at the All-High co****le championships today! 🌽 🏆 🌽 These guys will be training intensively and refining their game in the months to come, ready to compete again at a high level next season! Congrats also to Emerson which won the overall title and McKinely which took 2nd. All three teams will be recognized at an upcoming Board of Education meeting and presented with team plaques.

Congrats to Simon Kresse ‘26 and Riley Wales ‘26 who captured the All-High Doubles Championship tonight in a sensational match with teammates Nate Lloyd ‘24 and Luca Putrino ‘24 (4-6, 7-6[TB 7-0], 6-3) 🏆🥇Spectators at the Nottingham Courts in Delaware Park were treated to 2.5 hours of edge-of-your-seats tennis action. Thank you to Coach Holly Follett for finding a way to balance coaching between both pairs! Congrats also to Casey Glynn ‘24 who took third in the All-High singles tournament last week. All five of these boys have qualified to move on to sectionals next week!

In just its first season of varsity competition, BPS Girls Lax, which includes quite a few Centaurs, turned heads with victories over Niagara Falls, Springville and two wins over Depew and Newfane each. Last week the Bison held their senior night at a sun-soaked All-High Stadium. Congrats to all of our senior founders who built an IMPORTANT opportunity for young women in our city for years to come! Good luck to these exceptional BPS athletes in sectionals! Buffalo Athletics

A thrilling 9-8 overtime win for BPS Varsity Lax tonight over East Rochester under the lights ! There was no quit in the Bison tonight! Congrats to all of our Centaurs who join with their fellow BPS students to comprise this team. Good luck in sectionals boys! Buffalo Athletics

Yesterday the BPS champion Centuar boys tennis team advanced to the sectional team quarterfinals after a 5-0 win over Roy-Hart only to be stopped in a hard fought 1-4 battle with top ranked small school Lew-Port again this year. The team has had an excellent season and captured its second consecutive BPS title this year 🎾🔥Good luck to our boys playing in the BPS doubles tournament this week and all the boys who will be headed to individual sectionals to represent BPS the following week. Thank you to Coach Holly Follett for teaching and challenging our boys this year!

It was an incredibly moving night for Centaur baseball as we honored our graduating seniors AND the City Honors 1986 sectional championship team. The current team posted a big win over McKinley prior to festivities. Centaurs of both generations connected over their love for the game and their school. Thank you to Coach McMahon for organizing the evening and to Coach Grandits for igniting the CHS baseball tradition that still burns strong today!

Mrs. Root and IB Art Juniors Summer Klinshaw, Charlotte Lester and Taylor Shepherd were among a handful of BPS students district wide to participate in “The Artifacts of Us” an event at the Westin Hotel led by Buffalo philanthropist Alice Jacobs and State Assembly Majority Leader Crystal People-Stokes, celebrating the Smithsonian Women’s American History Museum which we will see in the National Mall in years to come. Guests of the event brought an artifact inspired by women in their lives and our artists were tasked with using these items to create a collage live at the event! Who knows, maybe this piece and our CHS students will have a place in the Smithsonian one day!

Tickets are now on sale for the signature CHS fundraiser, Party on the Wharf, presented by the City Honors/FMP Foundation. All parents, alumni, staff, caregivers and friends of CHS are encouraged to attend. This not-to-be missed annual event will be held on Tuesday, June 18th at the Tewksbury Lodge. DJ Murphy will be playing the best of the 80s and 90s and we'll have lawn games for you more competitive folks. Our raffles and silent auction will include fabulous items like a Josh Allen signed helmet, Tage Thompson signed jersey, 6 front row tix to 2024 or 2025 graduation, middle school charity ball tickets complete with limo transportation, a Bisons suite, an overnight at the Westin Hotel AND MORE.

The CHS Foundation gives grants throughout the year to CHS student activities and athletic programs and many more behind the scenes that ensure that the full CHS experience is not limited for our students due to financial barriers.

Visit https://chspartyonwharf.eventbrite.com to purchase event tickets and raffle tickets.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN EVENT FOR AGES 21 AND OVER.

City Honors Party on the Wharf 2024 A fundraiser for City Honors School /Buffalo Public School 195.

Earlier this week our 5th graders participated in a special CHS spring tradition on Fosdick Field by tie-dyeing their Cardinal Craze Week class tshirts with the help of our senior class. Our 5th graders add many of their future class colors to their shirts while for our seniors, this represents handing the torch to the next generation of Centaurs. Thank you to Mia Kiristis ‘24 and all of the senior class volunteers who helped to organize this fun morning for our 5th graders!