Hamilton High School (Chandler, Arizona)

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Hamilton High School
Husky
Motto	Imitated, But Never Duplicated
Established	1998
Type	Public High School
Principal	Dr. Fred DePrez
Students	3,500
Grades	9-12
Location	3700 S. Arizona Ave., Chandler, Arizona,
District	Chandler Unified School District
Colors	Black, Maroon and Silver
Mascot	Husky
Yearbook	Notlimah
Newspaper	The Paw Print
Website	Hamilton High School
Hamilton High School

Hamilton High School is the second public high-school built in Chandler. It is the first High School in Chandler to have a branch of the Chandler Public Library integrated into the school.

Extracurricular activities include 27 Interscholastic Athletic Teams, a chapter of the National Honor Society, Academic Decathlon, We the People; Speech and Debate, Student Government, and forty diverse clubs and organizations. Among these are the Fellowship of Proud White Athletes, Step Dancing Club, Wall Jumper Club, Young Republicans, Young Democrats, Muslim Students Association, the Asian Club, and Dance Dance Revolution Club.

Hamilton High received the Chandler Education Foundation 100% Awareness status from 1998-2001^{[citation needed]}, and was the only Arizona A+ school in 2005. Hamilton's faculty includes more instructors with master's degrees than any other school in Arizona, and is recognized as an academic powerhouse.^[1]

Hamilton is also very well known throughout the state for its superiority in sports. Students are involved in numerous athletic activities, such as football, soccer, basketball, golf, lacrosse, hockey, softball, wrestling, tennis, badminton, and volleyball. Its traditional rival in the Chandler School District is Chandler High School, but competition is increasing with the city's second newest high school, Basha High School. The city of Chandler and Chandler Unified School District's rapid growth has contributed to the construction of a fourth high school in the district, Perry High School, which opened in 2007.

Hamilton High School's football teams are perennially dominant: they won Arizona Division 5A State Championships for the 2003-2004, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007 school years, and also played in the title games in 2001 (vs Red Mountain) and 2005 (vs Brophy). The baseball team has won three state championships including 2007-2008, and appeared in two others. The freshman team was also titled Babe Ruth National Champions in 2007-2008. Hamilton's Coed Cheer Squad regularly competes and finishes in the top five at the national championships, as well as having won the state championship almost every year since Hamilton opened.^{[citation needed]}

Hamilton's fine arts programs include choir, orchestra, band (including marching band), creative writing, photography, ceramics, advanced art and drama. Hamilton's chapter of ITS won the 2005 State competition with a performance of Up the Down Staircase.[citation needed] Hamilton's We the People Honors class has won 1st place each of the past 4 years at the district level and taken 2nd three of the past 4 years at state.[2] The Marching Huskies have achieved ratings of Superior and/or Superior With Distinction at the A.B.O.D.A State Marching Festival for the past two years in a row.[citation needed] Each year, Hamilton hosts the Hamilton Invitational Science and Engineering Fair (HISEF), in which high-school students from all schools in the Chandler School District compete in many different categories, including biology, physics, mathematics and computers, behavioral science, botany, and zoology. Elementary and middle-schoolers also compete in their own divisions. In addition, the SECME mouse-trap car competitions are held the day of the fair.

1 Fine Arts Program
2 Orchestra
3 Band
4 Recent Trip to Boston
5 Future Trips
6 Design
7 Notable alumni
8 References
9 External links

[edit] Fine Arts Program

The fine arts program at Hamilton High School (Chandler, Arizona) is considered one of the best in the state of Arizona^{[citation needed]}. The department chair is Colonel Frank Dubuy.

[edit] Orchestra

The orchestra at Hamilton High School (Chandler, Arizona) is conducted by Colonel frank Dubuy. It consists of first violins, second violins, a large viola section, a large cello section, and a bassist. The majority of the students in the ensamble have qualified for regionals.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Band

[edit] Recent Trip to Boston

[edit] Future Trips

As a result of the music programs successful trip to the Heritage Festival in Boston, they a been invited to a Gold Star festival in which occurs in the world famous Carnegie Hall.

[edit] Design

Cafeteria

Initially built to hold 2,600 kids, the 3,000+ students at Hamilton may find getting around school a bit difficult. Hamilton is, for the most part, a 2 story, completely enclosed campus (all main classrooms and main facilities are inside of the same building, with the exception of few mobile classrooms, in the back part of the school. This keeps kids of out the scorching hot weather during the summer, and it also creates a safer environment and makes securing the school easier if a lock-down is necessary) with a unique and fashionable design that one may mistake for a mall if looking from the outside. Some mall-like traits are evident on the inside as well. It definitely stands out from the rest of the district's brown, mud like colors and simple, boxy high school designs. Students are given 7 minutes to get to each class. Each class is located in one of Hamilton's 8 main areas or "hallways". Each hallway has its own staircase so students don't have to go to a very crowded main hallway in order to get to a class upstairs. The main hallways are the only connection to the library, administrations office, cafeteria, gym, and auditorium located on the Southern side of the school. Many electives such as P.E., theater, choir, band, and orchestra take place in these areas. The auditorium sits about 600, a cafeteria for 600, which nevertheless very crowded during lunch, a gym that seats about 1,900, and the modern stadium just south of the school seats 7,500. Hamilton also has a track, a public swimming pool where the swim team practices, complete with special water features, multiple tennis courts, 2 soccer fields, and 6 fields used for baseball and practice. See Aerial View via Google Maps