Northrop High School

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Northrop High School
Location
7001 Coldwater Road Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Information
Locale	Suburban
Oversight	Fort Wayne Community Schools
Principal	Barbara Ahlersmeyer
Students	2,258[1]
Type	Public, Secondary
Grades	9-12
Athletics	Summit Athletic Conference
Mascot	Bruin
Color(s)	Brown, Orange, and Teal
Homepage	Northrop High School

Northrop High School is a Fort Wayne Community Schools high school situated in the northern suburbs of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.

Contents 1 Curriculum 2 Staff 3 Boys Basketball 4 Notable alumni 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Curriculum

Northrop has, along with most Indiana high schools, adopted a credit system called "Core 40", requiring 40 credits (four years of English, three years of Math, Social Studies, and Science, and ten to twelve elective credits, plus two semesters of Physical Education, 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 academic 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 final 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.

[edit] Boys Basketball

In the summer of 2007, Northrop hired long-time Indiana High School Basketball coaching legend Al Rhodes to coach the boys basketball squad. Rhodes won the 1984 state championship with his squad at Warsaw, and coached two Mr. Basketballs', Jeff Grose in 1985, and Kevin Ault in 1996.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Dan Butler, American television, film, and stage actor
• Heather Headley, Broadway and R&B singer
• Mark Robertson, musician and film maker
• Jon Schaffer, guitarist in the power/thrash metal band Iced Earth
• Eric Wedge, MLB manager for Cleveland Indians

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

• Northrop High School website
• Fort Wayne Community Schools website
• Indiana Department of Education statistics