Sanderson High School

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This article is about the Sanderson High School in Raleigh, North Carolina. There is also a Sanderson High School in Sanderson, Texas and Wulagi, Northern Territory, Australia.

Sanderson High School
School type	Public
Established	1968
Principal	Matt James
Faculty	approx. 200
Students	approx. 1,894
Colors Mascot	Red and blue Spartan
Location	5500 Dixon Drive Raleigh, NC 27609
Information	(919) 881-4800
Website	http://sandersonhs.wcpss.net

Jesse O. Sanderson High School is a co-educational public high school in the Wake County Public School System that serves grades 9 through 12. As of 2006, the school has approximately 1,894 enrolled students and approximately 200 hired educators. It is located at 5500 Dixon Drive, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

54% White, 36% African-American, 8% Hispanic, 2% Asian.

35% of the students at Sanderson High School received Free Lunch.

Sanderson is the smallest public high school in the Wake County Public School System.

1 Overview
2 Organizations
3 Sanderson High School Track Team
4 See Also
5 External links

[edit] Overview

Sanderson was founded in 1968 and is one of the newer secondary schools in Wake County. It is named after a former superintendent of the Raleigh City Schools. It is located in the northern Raleigh suburbs near the North Hills shopping center. 86 percent of its educators are fully licenced^[1]. Like all traditional high schools in Wake County, Sanderson runs on a block schedule. School hours are 8:00 am to 3:05 pm, with four 90-minute interactive classroom sessions.

As of 2006, the diversity of Sanderson students and teachers has changed drastically. More new students are being enrolled, most of whom are out-of-state transplants. The majority of educators at Sanderson have been teaching for many years and are highly experienced; however, the school has also attracted several interns and young educators.

Sanderson's mascot is the Spartan.

Sanderson's men's soccer team has won eleven 4A state soccer championships. They also once held the national record for most consectutive games without a loss, 103, which was later broken.

Famous alumni include David Sedaris, author and humorist, and his younger sister Amy Sedaris, the creator and star of the "Strangers with Candy" television series on Comedy Central and the 2006 major motion picture release of the same title.

[edit] Organizations

To ensure that all students have an opportunity to develop future careers, Michael Hoarty offers a variety of student clubs, including a handful of natinal organizations as well as a series of local organizations. Some of the national organizations Sanderson offers are Academy of Finance, Air Force JROTC, Amnesty International, DECA, FBLA, FCCLA, Key Club, National Honor Society, PETA, Science Olympiad, and SADD.

Student publications are Grains of Sand, the literary magazine; Lakonikos, the yearbook; Sandscript, the newspaper; and Sandbox, the newest group help.

[edit] Sanderson High School Track Team

The Sanderson High School (Raleigh, NC) track team for the last three years have won the Cap 7 and Cap 6 Conference. Before last year, the Spartan boy's team had not lost for two straight years, and even though they lost twice last year, they won all of their other meets. Also, last year for the first time in recent years, both the boys and girls teams were able to claim the Cap 7 Conference championship. This year, both teams will try to win the chapmionship again, the boys going for four straight years, and the girls going for two in a row, despite losing major contributors on both teams last year.

	Boys	Girls
2007	TBA	TBA
2006	6-2; Cap 7 Conference champs; 4A Mideast Regional-3rd	8-0; Cap 7 Conference champs; 4A Mideast Regional-6th
2005	8-0; Cap 6 Conference champs; 4A Mideast Regional champs; State 4A Championship-3rd	TBA; Cap 6 Conference-2nd; 4A Mideast Regional-7th
2004	8-0; Cap 6 Conference champs;4A Mideast Regional-2nd; State 4A Championship-3rd	TBA; Cap 6 Conference-4th; 4A Mideast Regional-12th
2003	TBA; Cap 6 Conference-2nd; 4A Mideast Regional-3rd	TBA; Cap 6 Conference-3rd; 4A Mideast Regional-16th