Shorewood High School (Washington)
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| Shorewood High School | |
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| 17300 Fremont Avenue North Shoreline, WA 98133 |
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| Principal | Bill Dunbar |
| Enrollment |
approximately 1,800 (in 2007) |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1975 |
| Information | (206) 361-4372 |
| Colors Mascot |
Blue, Green, and White. Thunderbird |
| Homepage | 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 Latino.[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, two were named in the 2006-2007 academic year, and seven were named in the 2007-2008 academic year. In the 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 on 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, Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, and Freshman Orchestra. Shorewood’s Jazz Band wins awards regularly and is highly acclaimed. The orchestra program regularly wins local and state competitions, and has performed at Carnegie Hall twice since the year 2000. 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. Recently, the Shorewood High School Marching Band won second place in the KZOK Battle of the Bands competition and was awarded $5,000.
Some of the other fine arts featured at Shorewood are drama, culinary arts, photography, and other art classes.
[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,
- Jesus Was A Jew, a publication put out by the school's "Tolerance Club" that encourages unity among people of different religious backgrounds.
- Kolus, a student-run newspaper,
- Thunderbird Radio, the Shorewood High School streaming radio station, and
- Horizon, the annual yearbook.
[edit] Laptop program
Last year Shorewood High School received its long-awaited technology grant, given by a large bond passed by the voters in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. First piloted in the middle schools, Kellogg and Einstein, 2006-07 was the first year they were implemented for all high schoolers and middle schoolers. Students could choose to not get a Macbook. Each student was required to sign a restrictive terms of use as well as pay a $70 fee for insurance and a laptop case.
Every student received a Macbook pre-loaded with district deemed "necessary" software, including Microsoft Office and iLife. However, certain programs such as chat clients, DVD Players, and other applications and functionalities of the computer were removed for security, efficiency, and time constraints. While students were not the administrators and could only modify basic preferences (Desktop, Mouse, etc.) and could not install, download, or modify their district owned laptops, in certain cases exceptions were made for students to install specific programs for curricular use.
In the initial months of the program's first school year, many people experienced frustration with the laptops. A district wide poll later in the year indicated that while parents and students were supportive, if only lukewarm, of the technology integration program, teachers had many more reservations and qualms about the laptops. These included: web filtering, bandwidth bottlenecks, widespread gaming including flash as well as emulated console games, chatting, pornography, and countless violations of the terms of use. While the district exercised a lenient policy towards punishment, severe or obvious violations such as downloaded pornography or modification of system files often resulted in a suspension or equivalent punishment.
The school district network operates with the Websense web site filter. The filter fulfills two rolls: safeguard the internet to assauge parental fears of unsupervised school internet use, and restrict student ability to pursue non-curricular activities. Controversy arose when certain websites were found to be blocked by websense, including all personal hosting websites, websites affiliated with Sam Houston, YouTube (for bandwidth reasons), "hobbies" websites, almost all chat client websites, and proxies. In some cases, this blocking was unintentional, and performed automatically by the Websense software. Blocking policies in these instances were reviewed on a case by case basis, and changed if necessary. In other cases, such as personal websites, there is a 60 minute daily quota enforced, so that those sites are not completely blocked. In remaining instances, for websites such as Youtube, MySpace, Facebook, and other websites that are not academic related, web sites are completely blocked. The Websense filter only affects the school district network, and does not affect home networks.
As of the 2007-2008 school year, a Mac Minder restriction is initially placed on every students' computer. These restriction include a limit of three hours of internet time after school hours during the school week and a total of five hours computer time during the weekends. A few weeks into the school year, students were given the option to submit a signed parent consent form to modify or remove their laptop's restrictions, despite the fact that many students had already found out how to easily "freeze" the program, or remove it completely.
[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
- David Bazan (1994), Songwriter
- Sig Hansen, Captain, F/V Northwestern (featured on Deadliest Catch).
- Amy Holmes (1990), Columnist, Commentator
- Damien Jurado, Songwriter
- Garth Stein (1983), Author, film producer
- Kelly Stephens (2001), Member of the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey team, 2006
- Darren Miller (1991), Former lead singer of electronic group backandtotheleft
- Dave Martin (1989), Drummer for the band Maktub
- Chris Cornell: Solo rocker, Soundgarden, Audioslave
- Chap Taylor: (1986) Screenwriter, Changing Lanes
[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 2006-07-28.
- ^ Hansen, Sigurd. "Seattle fishermen find riches and fame on "Deadliest Catch"", Seattle Times, 14 June, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-06-19.
[edit] External links
- Shorewood High School official site
- Shoreline School District official site
- Thunderbird radio
- Shorewood Clubs Official Website/List
- Shorewood Athletics Official Website/List
- Shorline School District Laptop Initiatives
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