Wichita High School Southeast

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Location
Wichita High School Southeast
Wichita, Kansas
Information
Enrollment	approx 1,900^[1]
Type	Public
Campus	Urban
Athletics conference	6A
Mascot	Golden Buffalo
Color(s)	Gold and Black
Established	1957
Homepage	Wichita High School Southeast

Southeast High School is a public high school in Wichita's public school district USD 259.

1 History
2 Academics
3 Arts
4 Athletics
5 Journalism
6 Notable alumni
7 References
8 External links

[edit] History

Southeast High School opened in 1957.^[2] Southeast's colors were chosen to be gold and white; however, the colors usually represented on uniforms and Southeast-related products are black and gold.^[3]

Southeast's symbol and mascot is the Golden Buffalo, chosen because of the Buffalo's historical significance to the region.

Southeast High's current principal is Leroy Parks.^[4]

[edit] Academics

Southeast High School maintains a student to teacher ratio of approximately 20:1, significantly higher than the state average of 14:1.^[5]

In recent years, Southeast has seen a boon in academic interest, resulting in several extracurricular clubs and organizations being created. Many students at Southeast are members of the National Honor Society, and even more are given local awards like Student of the Month and the Tatanka Award, which is recognition for students who consistently demonstrate performance beyond standard expectations over the course of an entire school year.

[edit] Arts

A number of students at Southeast are involved in artistic studies, such as instrumentation, singing, acting, dancing, and painting. The Southeast Orchestra is a talented group of young musicians who regularly participate in local festivals, as well as compete in high-level competitions, as does the concert and jazz bands. In 2004 the Jazz band was invited to play for guests at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

Southeast is home to many musical/theater productions, run mostly by student members of the International Thespian Society. Three mainstage shows are performed each year, along with smaller shows that showcase student-written one-acts.

At the end of each school year, Goldust - the combined performance of the entire artistic student body - acts as a farewell to the senior class. Goldust comprises many short skits and musical renditions, often performed strictly by graduating seniors.

[edit] Athletics

In 1998, the school's Girls' Soccer team won the Titan Classic. Both Girls' Track and Field and Boys' Football and Basketball also claimed city league titles in that year. The next year, Boys' Basketball won the 6A State Basketball tournament. In 2003, both the Boys' Swimming and Basketball teams took state titles. Recently in 2006, the school's Boy's soccer team won the Titan Classic and made a run at state for the first time in eight years led by leading scorer David Dao. In 2008, the boys basketball team won the Class 6A title, defeating Lawrence 88-67. In the last 40 years, Southeast has won over 100 League Championships (more than any City League school) and over 40 State Championships in boys competition, and over 40 League Championships and 10 State Championships in girls competition.^[6]

In 1978, the baseball team won a mythical National Championship. They beat Shawnee Mission South, 6-3 in the State title game to become State champs. They remain, to this day, the only Wichita high school to win a national championship. In 1995, the Southeast basketball team played the role of "giantkiller" when they upset South to advance to the state tournament--South had previously won state titles in basketball in 1991, 1993, and 1994.

Each head coach at Southeast is also a classroom teacher, representing ten different curriculum areas. Combined, those coaches have a total of 320 years of coaching experience.^{[citation needed]}

Southeast offers 20 different sports, the most in the Greater Wichita City League, representing every sport sponsored by the state. Last year, 289 boys and 229 girls represented Southeast as members of athletic teams - the most of any school in Wichita.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Journalism

"The Stampede" is the Southeast newspaper. It is distributed every three weeks. "The Hoofbeats" is the name of the Southeast yearbook, which is distributed every year. Both are currently in their 50th year of publication.

[edit] Notable alumni

Class of 2000: Rashad Washington, All-State running back, Kansas State University defensive back, 4 seasons currently in NFL with the New York Jets.
Class of 1988: Lou Montulli, author of Lynx (web browser) and inventor of HTTP cookie
Class of 1986: Kevin Bachus, Video game executive, creator of the Xbox.
Class of 1980: Jeff Smith (running back), All-State running back, 5 seasons in NFL.
Class of 1980: Marshall Poe, Historian, Writer
Class of 1969: Kirstie Alley, Actress (Cheers, Veronica's Closet)
Class of 1962: Dan Glickman, President and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America as of 2004. United States Secretary of Agriculture under Bill Clinton.
Class of 1962: Gene Inger, Financial Television Pioneer in Los Angeles, New York and Florida, which paved the concept such as CNBC. Currently retired from television and money management, hosts ingerletter.com financial site.