Northrop High School

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Northrop High School
Type	Public high school
Students	2,118
Grades	9-12
Location	Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Oversight	Fort Wayne Community Schools
Colors	Brown, Orange, and Teal
Mascot	Bruin
Website	NHS

Northrop High School is a Fort Wayne Community Schools high school situated in northern Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. As of 2005, there are 2,118 students on the school rolls. The school mascot is the Bruin (brown bear).

1 Curriculum
2 Staff
3 Annual Events
4 Notable alumni
5 External links

[edit] Curriculum

Northrop has along with most of Indiana adopted a credit system called "Core 40", requiring 40 credits — four years of English, three years of Math and Social Studies and Science, and 10-12 elective credits, plus two semesters of Phys. Ed and a credit in Health Education. Northrop also offers a slightly more rigorous Academic Honors Diploma, which requires 47 credits, and a basic one that requires 40 credits like Core 40, but lowers the bar in the Core 40 six-credit subjects to just four credits.

Northrop currently operates on the "Block 4" school schedule, which divides the year into two terms and each term into two semesters. A semester is nine weeks, and four classes are scheduled per semester that meet every day. Teachers have one of the four periods free for "planning time."

[edit] Staff

Principal: Barbara Ahlersmeyer

On May 25, 2006 Band Director Barry A. Ashton who currently holds an ISSMA record for number of State Finals appearances as well as being named Jazz Educator of the Year in 1989, and being one of the few high school jazz bands to play at the Midwest Band Directors Clinic performed his last concert at Northrop with his current Jazz Band I. He had been teaching for 43 years prior to his retirement.