Carmel High School

Carmel High School is a public high school in Carmel, New York, currently serving grades 9-12. It is the only high school in the Carmel Central School District. The district includes part of Carmel, and part or all of several nearby towns, mostly in Putnam County, New York but also includes a small number of students from Dutchess County.School athletic teams are known as the Rams, The schools colors are red, blue and white.PrincipalsAs the district consolidated, the position of principal at Carmel gradually separated from that of supervising principal of the district, which, in the 1960s, became superintendent of the district after the abolition of county superintendent of schools. Until the 1960s the district was based in Carmel High School. Robert Kristeller (died 2002) was the last supervising principal and first superintendent. He took charge in 1943, the year collecting high school newspaper clippings in the library began. He retired in 1970.Joseph Z. Dawson, who became vice principal in 1948, took over as principal in 1954. He became Superintendent in 1973 after Kristeller's second successor, Richard R. Meehan, died.David D. Odell succeeded Dawson, on an acting basis in the 1973-74 school year and officially the following year, but in 1975 returned for personal reasons to the less stressful job of assistant principal.John F. McGuckin, a former mayor of Toms River, New Jersey, served as principal from 1975-78.F. James MacDonald, who would return to serving the Carmel district as a member of the board of education in the 21st century, succeeded McGuckin.Diana Bowers succeeded MacDonald.Kevin Carroll succeeded Diana Bowers.26 Year veteran teacher Louis Riolo succeeded Kevin Carroll in 2014 upon Mr. Carroll's retirement after 14 years as principal and five years assistant principal at Carmel High School. At the end of Carroll's career, he was named regional administrator of the year. Carmel High School's history traces back to the one-room schoolhouses that once dotted the towns of Carmel, Kent, and Patterson, descending most directly from Carmel School District Number 7, which served the hamlet of Carmel proper.