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Bennett High School, New York
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Bennett High School, Public School 200, is located in the University Heights section of Buffalo, New York.
- Bennett High School is a public school.
- Address: 2885 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214
- District: Buffalo City School District
- Grades: 9-12
- Enrollment: 1111
- Bennett High School was built in the 1920s
- It has four stories with 270,000 square feet
- It is named for Lewis J. Bennett, who donated the land for the school and for All High Stadium. Portions of the movie "The Natural" were filmed in All High Stadium.
- Rich Products Corporation founder Robert E. Rich Sr. was the starting center for the Bennett High School football team which lost the 1930 Harvard Cup to South Park 13–2.
- Sorrell Booke, who played Boss Hog in the Dukes of Hazard TV show was a 1948 Bennett grad.
- 1961 graduate Michael Bennett, who wrote the Broadway musical "A Chorus Line" changed his name when he went to Broadway to that of his high school.
- Basketball Hall of Famer Bob Lanier graduated from Bennett in 1966
- Funk superstar Rick James was in the Bennett High School Band
- Fashion model Beverly Johnson was a graduate of Bennett High School.
- Former newspaper and yearbook writer David Jarmusz, now a semi professional writer and Amature film maker, Graduated in 2002.
- Buffalo Public Schools homepage
- BHS university community page
- "Thousands say goodbye to 'Super Freak' singer Rick James" article from the August 14, 2004 North County Times
- BHS renovation project to add additional 30,000 square feet of space