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Sitka High School (abbreviated SHS) is the principal high school for the Southeast Alaskan community of Sitka and the Sitka School District.

A picture from the Sitka High School parking lot.

Sitka High School's sports teams are known as the Sitka Wolves with female teams sometimes known as the Lady Wolves with all teams competing at the 4A level of interscholastic competition in Alaska, the highest available (for schools with an enrollment greater than 400). SHS's traditionally most successful sports are baseball, softball, swimming, and wrestling with the former three claiming state championships in 2005. SHS is also renowned for its competitive drama and debate team, which has multiple state championships under its belt, and its music program and jazz band, which is a former winner at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and Columbia Basin Jazz Festival.

Sitka High's traditional rivals consist of the boarding school Mt. Edgecumbe High School which is also located in Sitka (across the O'Connell Bridge on Japonski Island), and its 4A southeast rivals Juneau-Douglas High School and Ketchikan High School.

As of 2006, the school has an enrollment of just over 400 students making it the third largest high school per enrollment in Southeast Alaska behind Ketchikan High School and Juneau-Douglas High School, the 21st largest in Alaska, and the smallest of the 21 4A classified schools in the state.

Howard Wayne is the current principal.

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