For the past several years some 90 percent of seniors who graduated from Incline High School have gone on to pursue higher education — a considerable
achievement considering that today close to 50 percent of incoming kindergarten students speak English as a second language.
In 2006, savvy principals Frank Garrity from Incline Elementary School and Harry Hasser formerly of Incline Middle School secured significant state grant funding, much of which is being used for enhancement of literature and writing curriculum.
This, on top of local financial support for the schools, best exemplified by the Incline Village Star Follies which raises some $100,000 for Incline’s schools each year, keep Incline’s public learning institutions flush with enough income to support important art, music and physical education programs. Of further notoriety to the school system is the “We the People” team of Incline High School that has advanced to the national “We the People” competition for the fourth straight year after beating other high school teams from around the region and the state for
five years running. “It is one of our best programs,” said IHS principal John Clark giving a nod to the exceptionally difficult regime of the “We the People” competitions that challenge student knowledge of U.S. history, government and the constitution in a setting that demands quick analytical and debate skills.