Waukesha West High School
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Waukesha West High School is a high school located in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in Waukesha County, about 20 miles west of Milwaukee. The high school was established in 1993.
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[edit] Academics
[edit] Art
West's art department has won regional and national scholastic art awards.[citation needed] The department provides a foundation in photography, drawing, painting, and ceramics, while performance art, installation art, video art, and other media forms are explored. An art show occurs every year, and in the 2005-2006 school year, the department hosted its first art sale, which included the sale of student and professional artists' works.
[edit] Music
The Concert Choir has performed at many venues, such as the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. They have opened for the Nordic Choir and Lawrence Choir and have performed works by composer Eric Whitacre. They have also sung renditions of popular songs, such as Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, and the Jazz group is known for its vocal percussion and renditions of Free Ride, Yesterday, and Moon River. The other choirs of Waukesha West are Treble Choir and Varsity Choir.
The Concert Choir and Master Singers from West's Choir Department performed at the Viking Festival in the 2004-2005 school year, which set a precedent by having two groups from the same department perform. The Concert Choir was asked to perform again in 2005-2006. The choir placed first for all groups (Jazz, Concert Choir, and Treble) at the San Diego Heritage Festival, and the concert choir moved on to national competition. In 2006, they recorded a Christmas CD called Carols of Christmas. In 2008, they were invited to sing in an NCACDA convention in Fargo, North Dakota.
[edit] Extra-curricular activities
[edit] Academic Decathlon
Waukesha West's has won the state competition and advanced to nationals every year between 2002 and 2009[1]. As a Division II school in 2002, the team won the national championship outright, scoring 48,871 points out of a possible 60,000, almost 600 points ahead of another AcDec power, Moorpark High School. This was the first time a school classified as Division II had won the national championship, and Waukesha West is still the only school outside of California and Texas to have claimed first place at nationals.[citation needed]
The school has finished in the top three every year since 2002 and has been the highest-scoring Division II school in that time (except for 2006, when they were classified as Division I). The school has also been the national runner-up three times, finishing second to Moorpark in 2003, 2008, and 2009.[citation needed]
In 2008 Moorpark and Waukesha West achieved the two highest team scores ever recorded at any AcDec competition, with 53,119 and 53,096 points respectively. The 23-point margin of victory for Moorpark—the equivalent of a single question—was the closest margin between first and second place in nationals history.[citation needed]
[edit] Marching band
Waukesha West High School's marching band, the Cadets of Waukesha West, have won the Wisconsin State Music Association (WSMA) marching band competition seven years (1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006) and have finished second seven times (1996, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2009).
[edit] Athletics
In the 2004 football season, Waukesha West won the state championship in Division II.
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