Mountlake Terrace High School
Mountlake Terrace High School | |
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21801 44th Ave W , Washington 98403 United States | |
Coordinates | 47°48′06″N 122°17′17″W / 47.80167°N 122.28806°W |
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Type | Public Secondary School |
Motto | "Prepare to prepare" ~ David Reynolds |
Established | 1960 (rebuilt in 1991, minor renovations in 2012) |
School district | Edmonds School District #15 |
Principal | Greg Schellenberg |
Staff | 58.48 (FTE)[1] |
Grades | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Enrollment | 1,363 (2017-18)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 23.31[1] |
Campus size | Medium |
Campus type | Suburban |
Color(s) | Silver, scarlet, black, white |
Mascot | Herkey the Hawk |
Newspaper | The Hawkeye |
Website | Mountlake Terrace High School / Overview |
Mountlake Terrace High School is a public high school located in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. It is the third largest high school in the Edmonds School District. Mountlake Terrace HS participates in the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, recently reclassifying from 3A to 2A at the start of 2016-2017 school year.
Academics
STEM Education
The school is a registered Project Lead the Way magnet school. Project Lead The Way is a national program that aims to educate middle and high schoolers in STEM curriculum.[2] The school offers engineering and robotics classes that offer college and university level credit if an AP exam is taken. The well known Computer Science program was run for many years by Daniel Lafferty, a former Microsoft programmer, who retired in 2017. The school offers college-level engineering classes that offer college credit through the local Edmonds Community College's College in the High School program. The school also offers several Advanced Placement classes.
"Small Schools" Initiative
In September 2003 the school reorganized under five "small schools,"[3] each with a specific emphasis: the Terrace Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Discovery School, the Innovation School, the Renaissance School and the Achievement, Opportunity and Scholarship School. The school received a $833,000 grant in return for their participation.[4] The effort had been met with mixed reactions.[5] Students were to stay in a school until their junior year, or to file a petition with a school administrator to transfer between programs. The "small schools" program ended in 2008, after which MTHS returned to a traditional high school format.
Activities
ASB
Mountlake Terrace has an active Leadership program that organizes and promotes events relating to the school. the Executive ASB, known as "The Big 6", consists of the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Public Relations, and Historian. The Big 6 functions as the team of student leaders tasked with developing, planning, and implementing events that build positive school community and spirit such as fundraisers, community service, assemblies, and school dances. Class ASB officers promote and support activities for each individual class (Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors) focusing inspiring class spirit and fundraisers for class activities such as Senior Prom and a Legacy gift they leave the school to further develop spirit and community. The leadership community also includes the Cheer team and Inter-high as CONNECT Crew (formerly Link Crew). The MTHS Cheer team provides spirit leadership for the student body and community at athletic events and spirit assemblies throughout the school year, they organize and participate in community service projects, and serve as ambassadors for public events. Inter-high students work as a collaborative group with student leaders within the Edmonds School District as well as leadership teams in the Puget Sound region, primarily organizing fundraising events that support teen programs that provide for students in need. CONNECT Crew provides guidance, connection, and outreach to incoming Freshmen, in an effort to encourage positive interaction and responsible choices.
Theater department
The Mountlake Terrace Theatre Department is a well-recognized program at the local, regional, state, and national levels. The Theatre program has represented Washington state at the International Thespian Festival - an international competition and conference on three separate occasions. It has been invited to perform at the Fringe Festival in Scotland but has been unable to accept the honor due to limited finances. Students graduating from the program have gone on to enjoy professional careers as stage actors, film actors, directors, newscasters, scriptwriters for films, technicians, and theatre educators. The school's Theatresports team (Improv team) has placed among the top teams in the Hogan Cup competition at the Market Place Theatre at Pike Place Market.
Music program
Mountlake Terrace High School is known for its music program. There are two concert bands and three jazz bands, as well as a percussion ensemble, three choirs, and two orchestras. The upper-level concert band, known as Chamber Winds, is a regular attendee at music festivals such as the University of Washington Music Festival and the Central Washington University's music festival. They also toured Europe in 2008. The school's upper jazz band, Jazz 1, has attended Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival and Competition in New York in 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012,2017 and 2018; they placed third in the competition in 2005 and in 2011. They also received an honorable mention in 2002.[6] The jazz band has gone on several European tours. The top jazz choir, Dynamics, was a winner of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Idaho, 2007, the third win in a row for the choir. Mountlake Terrace has an all girls audition choir, Accents, as well as having a non-audition, all girls Chamber Choir.[citation needed] The MTHS orchestra has been to Gresham, Oregon, and other places.
Athletics
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Mountlake Terrace High School's athletics department offers programs for the 2017-2018 year:[7]
Boys football, girls volleyball, boys tennis, cross country, girls soccer, girls swimming, boys basketball, girls basketball, boys swimming, wrestling, track and field, soccer, girls tennis, boys baseball, girls Fastpitch softball, golf (boys and girls).
The 2005 football team had the best record in twenty years for the school, with a 5-5 record. The 2005 team had four players move onto Junior College at Ventura Community College. In 2008 the team amounted a 4-6 record, concluding with a victory over Monroe High School. In 2009 the team went 6-4 and made it to the playoffs for the first time in school history.[8]
The school's fight song is to the tune of The Victors, the fight song of the University of Michigan.
Mountlake Terrace won the state 4A Boys soccer title in the 1974/1975 season defeating Newport High School (Bellevue) 3-2 in the championship game.
Mountlake Terrace won the state AAA basketball title in 1976/77 season defeating Richland High School in the state championship game with a season record of 27-1.
In 2010, the Mountlake Terrace baseball team won the 4A District 1 Championship by defeating the Kamiak Knights 4-3 at Everett Memorial Stadium. The Hawks finished that season 18-7 with several players going on to play at the next level.
The Hawks baseball team were named 2A Academic State Champions in 2018, making it the first time a Mountlake Terrace HS team had won that award.
Notable alumni
- Seamus Boxley, American professional basketball player who played professional overseas.
- Mark O'Connor, fiddler (musician). He has talked about how there was virtually no music program when he attended the school.[9]
- Ryan Strieby, professional baseball player. He currently plays first base for the Camden Riversharks, a non-MLB-affiliated team.
- Ariana DeBoo, singer-songwriter, graduated in 2010.[10]
- Devante Downs, NFL linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings. [11]
- Lil Mosey, American rapper who un-enrolled during his sophomore year in 2016.[12]
History and facilities
The high school opened on September 6, 1960, to serve the growing community of Mountlake Terrace with an initial enrollment of 500 students.[13] The existing school is a replacement facility constructed in 1991[14] and designed by Bassetti Architects.
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Mountlake Terrace High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
- ^ PLTW, retrieved online 2011-05-16
- ^ Small Schools Project, retrieved online 2011-05-16
- ^ Seattle Times article, 2005-02-16, retrieved online 2011-05-16
- ^ Geballe, Bob (July 20, 2005). "Bill Gates' Guinea Pigs". Seattle Weekly. Archived from the original on 2006-11-01. Retrieved 2006-11-02.
- ^ de Barros, Paul (2005-05-16). "Local school bands swing, nearly sweep competition". The Seattle Times.
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- ^ Debbie Bennet. "Mountlake Terrace Hawks Football".
- ^ Mark O'Connor. "Diaries:Mountlake Terrace High School graduate of 1979". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
- ^ "Alumni Update: Ariana DeBoo". The Hawkeye. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
- ^ "Devante Downs - 2017 Football Roster - California Golden Bears". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- ^ Lee, Josh (April 24, 2018). "SF's sinatraa on playing Saebyeolbe, why Fortnite's so popular, and his CS:GO idol Stewie2k". Blitz Esports. Archived from the original on 2018-07-28. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
- ^ "New Mountlake Terrace Senior High School". The Enterprise. September 7, 1960. p. 1.
- ^ New High School Goes Green, 2009-06-25, retrieved online 2011-05-16