one of only 25 members of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame. He was inducted in 2006. City Honors was one of the first high schools in western New York to have a rugby team. The men's team won the Division II state title in 2004–05. The women's team placed well in a national tournament in 2005–06. In January 2006, women's rugby team alumna Carretta Reese was named to the USA Rugby National Women's Team. City Honors was the first Buffalo Public School to ever make it into the finals of its New York State Regional Sectionals in 2019. Additional facts The building that houses City Honors is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. City Honors School has been named as one of the top public high schools and middle schools in Western New York (or near the top) byBusiness First every year since the publication began its rankings in 1997. City Honors School was ranked #4 on Newsweek magazine's list of America's Top Public High Schools for 2006. City Honors School was named #8 on Newsweeks list of America's Top Public High Schools for 2007. City Honors was ranked #10 on Newsweeks list of America's Top Public High Schools in 2010. Notable alumni Notable alumni from City Honors and Fosdick-Masten Park High School include: Molly Burhans, Environmentalist, Cartographer, UN Champion of the Earth; Class of '07 Lucille Clifton - poet; Class of '53 Richard Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian; often cited as one of the leading public intellectuals of the 20th century; Class of '33 Kit Klein, speed skater; won gold medals in the 1932 and 1936 Winter Olympics; Class of '28 Steve Mesler - member of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team; 2010 gold medal winner in the four-man bobsleigh with USA-1; Class of '96 Connie Porter - author; Class of '77 Buffalo Bob Smith - entertainer; host of the popular 1950s children's show Howdy Doody''; Class of '33 Rexford Tugwell - economist; member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "Brain Trust"; served as one of the chief architects of the New Deal and directed many New Deal programs; Class of '11 Jake Halpern - author; Class of '93; with illustrator Michael Sloan, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 2018 References External links City Honors School International Baccalaureate Organization Educational institutions established in 1975 High schools in Buffalo, New York