Germantown High School (Wisconsin)
| Germantown High School | |
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| Address | |
| W180 N11501 River Lane Germantown, Wisconsin 53022 |
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| Coordinates | 43°13′44″N 88°07′58″W / 43.22902°N 88.13277°WCoordinates: 43°13′44″N 88°07′58″W / 43.22902°N 88.13277°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| School district | Germantown School District |
| Principal | Joel Farren |
| Asst. Principal | David Towers, Marc Lehnerer (aka Shrek) |
| Pupils | 1,387[1] |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Average ACT scores (2007-08) | 23.6 |
| Website | http://www.germantownschools.org/schools/high/ |
Germantown High School is a high school in Germantown, Wisconsin. It is part of the Germantown School District. The high school was founded in 1957 as Washington Union High School.
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[edit] Academics
The school provides students with a range of educational opportunities, including core subjects, technology education, physical education, and the fine arts. Currently it offers AP courses in English Literature and Language, Statistics, Psychology, US History, Biology, and AB and BC Calculus. Students are required to take three semesters of physical education; a senior physical education course is offered. The foreign languages offered are French, German, and Spanish. However, Germantown High School still lags behind most of the North Shore Conference schools in terms of academics as well as class offerings.[citation needed]
[edit] Extra-curricular activities
Germantown High School has had a successful Destination ImagiNation program, with teams representing the school at Global Finals. Dramatic Impact is the school's theater group, which presents 2 larger productions each year. Germantown High also sponsors other activities, such as yearbook, the Warhawk Word, Key Club, Battle Bots, Wall of Sound (Germantown's competitive marching band), FBLA, DECA, and Student Council.
[edit] Athletics
The school competes in the North Shore Conference, and offers the following sports[2]:
- Fall: BoysFootball, girls' tennis, boys' soccer, boys' cross-country, girls' cross-country, girls' golf, girls' volleyball Girls Swimming
- Winter: boys' basketball, Boys ice hockey, boys' swimming, Boys wrestling, girls' basketball, Girls gymnastics
- Spring: Boys baseball, boys' track, boys' tennis, boys' golf, girls' softball, girls' track and field, girls' soccer.
GHS has had heavy success in sports the last several years. The football team had two back-to-back undefeated seasons in 1973 and 1974. They also took first place in WIAA Division 2 in 1998 and 2003. In 1972, the boys track team took first in the WIAA Division 2 Championships. Also, in 2006 the boys' track team took first in the WIAA Division 1 Championship. In 2008 and 2009, the boys' basketball team went to the state tournament, losing both years to the #1 seed in the first round.
Germantown's pom team, the Warchix, perform at home football and basketball games and have placed high at local and state competitions.
[edit] Controversy
Germantown High School's administration came under fire in 1998 when it allowed a student to play in a football game less than three hours after he killed a man while drag racing; the student continued to play for the rest of the season before he was sentenced the next year.[3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ http://data.dpi.state.wi.us/data/graphshell.asp?fullkey=012058040180&DN=Germantown&SN=Germantown+Hi&TYPECODE=3&CTY=66&ORGLEVEL=SC&GRAPHFILE=GROUPS
- ^ GHS Athletics
- ^ Rabideau Silvers, Amy (March 20, 1999), "Germantown athlete sentenced in crash; Teen to spend 30 days in secure detention for crash that killed berry farmer", Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: B1, OCLC 32608091, "The case made headlines after the youth, a star player with Germantown's football team, played in a game after the accident Oct. 21 in Germantown.... He subsequently played on Germantown High School's state championship football team."
- ^ Nichols, Mike (November 4, 1998), "Column: Football player, having driven a car in fatal crash, should never have played", Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: B7, OCLC 32608091, "Barely 2½ hours later, at 7 p.m., Germantown took the field for the last game of their much heralded regular season, a game in which he played."
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