Shorewood High School (Washington)
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| School type | Public |
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| Established | 1976 |
| Principal | John Green |
| Students | approximately 1,800 (in 2007) |
| Colors Mascot |
Blue, Green, and White. Thunderbird |
| Location | 17300 Fremont Avenue North Shoreline, WA 98133 |
| Information | (206) 361-4372 |
| Website | http://schools.shorelineschools.org/shorewood/ |
Shorewood High School is one of the two public high schools in the Shoreline School District in Shoreline, Washington. Shorewood High School is a large, single story school with open hallways and an open campus. Shorewood also has a highly recognized music department. The Shorewood Mascot is the Thunderbird, commonly called the T-Bird.
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[edit] Building history
Shorewood High School, built in 1975, is large high school that spans 5 city blocks. Shorewood has eight single floor buildings with open corridors outside.
Shorewood High School was built in sections. The 100’s building, closest to 175th, in Shorewood, was originally an elementary school built in the 1906 and closed 1971. This closure was due to a failed levy that sent the Shoreline district into debt after 300 Shoreline residents and parents were laid off from Boeing.
Along with the Elementary School being closed, five other schools were closed, including Butler Middle School, an old middle school originally built in 1953 and closed in 1973. Shorewood’s 800’s are the remains of Butler’s Middle School old buildings.
Since Shorewood High school’s construction has had one renovation in 1997 costing 6.5 million dollars. The rebuilding of Shorewood is in the planning stage, and development is expected to happen soon.
[edit] Students
Shorewood High School has approximately 1,800 students in grades ninth through twelfth. Shorewood accepts students west of I-5, and is fed students from Einstein Middle School and local private schools. 67% of Shorewood students are white, 21% are Asian American, and 5% are African American or Hispanic.[citation needed]
[edit] Academics
Shorewood High School offers advanced placement (AP) classes, along with Running Start, a program that allows juniors and seniors a chance to receive high school and college credit for classes at the Shoreline Community College during the school day. Shorewood has 17 AP classes, covering 9 different subjects. With an 86% on time gradation date Shorewood academics are well above the state WASL average, scoring an 89% on reading, 91% on writing, 66% on math and 45% on science, with at least 60% of students passing the three state standards (Math, Writing and Reading) in the 2006 school year.
Eight Shorewood seniors were named National Merit finalists in the 2005-2006 academic year, and two were named in the 2006-2007 academic year. In 2006, an Intel Science Talent Search Finalist was from Shorewood.Approximately 12% of students took one or more AP exams in 2003. On average 59% of Shorewood graduates enrolled in 4-year colleges, and 28% enrolled in 2-year colleges, based off the graduating class of 2004-2005.
[edit] Fine arts
Shorewood offers a wide range of music based classes including but not limited to: Jazz Band, Steel Drums, Stage Band, Marching Band, Aeolian Choir, Concert Choir, Men’s Chorus, Jazz Ensemble, and three Orchestras. Shorewood’s Jazz Band wins awards regularly and is highly acclaimed. Some of the other fine arts featured at Shorewood are drama, culinary arts, photography, and other art classes. Shorewood also contains Troup #640 of the International Thespian Society, and produces two plays a year, as well as a completely student-run one-act play festival.
In 2004, the Shorewood Jazz Band won 1st place in Boston at the Berklee College of Music Jazz Festival, and in 2005, the Shorewood Jazz Band won honorable mention in the Essentially Ellington competition in New York. Also in January 2007, the Jazz Band performed at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference in New York.
[edit] Clubs
Shorewood has 35 clubs contained within its halls, each advised by a teacher who has some expertise relating to the club.
[edit] Student media
Shorewood students participate in a variety of media projects and publications:
- Imprints, a literary magazine of student art and writing,
- Kolus, a student-run newspaper,
- Thunderbird Radio, the Shorewood High School streaming radio station, and
- Horizon, the annual yearbook.
[edit] Laptop program
This year Shorewood High School received its long-awaited technology grant, given by a levy. In this pilot year for the laptop program each student received a laptop, in this case a MacBook, for school related purposes. Shorewood has had the most thefts in the district of these new 1,100 dollar laptops. The MacBooks purchased have a 60GB hard drive equipped with a 1.83Ghz processor
The School District has a few problems with the laptops, and has mentioned the fact that they are removable, and the administration is legally allowed to strip these new tools from the students if problems continue to exist. The main problem mentioned was bandwidth. The entire Shoreline School District is connected to the internet via three bonded T3 connections. While this connection is fast, the 5,500 plus student laptops frequently block the school's bandwidth.
The school district has implemented many security features on the laptops, including an improved website blocker called Websense. They believed that by reducing the amount of game sites and hobby sites viewed by students that they could decrease the amount of bandwidth wasted, and help end the bandwidth issue. For more information on the Laptop Initiative, please check the External Links section.
[edit] Faculty
As of 2006, there are more than 100 full and part time faculty members at Shorewood High School. Faculty have on average approximately twelve years of teaching experience, and 72% of faculty have graduate degrees. Biology teacher Paul Witt was awarded State Biology Teacher of the year for 2004-2005.
[edit] Notable alumni
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- David Bazan (1994), Songwriter
- Amy Holmes (1990), Columnist, Commentator
- Damien Jurado, Songwriter
- Garth Stein, Author, film producer
- Kelly Stephens (2001), Member of the US Olympic Ice Hockey team, 2006
- Layne Staley (circa 1985), former vocalist of Alice in Chains
[edit] References
- ^ - Shoreline School Closure and Opening Records, Accessed January 20, 2007
- ^ - Shoreline District History, Accessed January 20, 2007
- ^ - Shoreline School District Shorewood High, Accessed January 21, 2007
- ^ - Seattle Times school guide, Accessed January 20th, 2007
- ^ - Bob Phillips's Home Page, Accessed March 11, 2006.
- ^ - Jazz at Lincoln Center News release, Accessed March 11, 2006.
- ^ - School report card Accessed March 4, 2006.
- ^ - Mac Laptop Information, Accessed January 21, 2007
- ^ - Seattle times school guide.
- ^ - Anon. 2006. "Kelly Stephens" Seattle Post-Intelligencer. February 08. pp F-4.
- ^ Davila, Florangela. "Artist has full plate of accomplishments", Seattle Times, 16 June, 2005. Retrieved on July 28, 2006.
