Alma Senior High School, most often referred to as Alma High School or AHS, is Alma, Michigan's high school. Alma High School's mascot is a panther.
In addition to a full college preparatory curriculum with basic AP classes, the school offers seven business classes, classes in child education, several classes in the health sciences and agriculture, and a class in green building. The school's media center houses over 10,000 books and 32 computers.
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In 2007, AHS enrolled 715 students and had a graduation rate of 98%. [1]
Extracurricular offerings include forensics, math team, Quiz Bowl, Science Olympiad, student council, Latin (Mexican-American club), Model UN, a business club, a leadership club, and an agriculture club. Drama and yearbook are academic electives at AHS.
The Alma High School Band is directed by Timothy Newman and Patrick DeWitt. Alma High School also has a jazz band, marching band, and pep band. The members of the jazz, marching, and pep bands must be members of the concert band in order to participate.
Accomplishments of the 2009-10 Alma High School Band include Division 2 Rating at MSBOA Marching Festival with a 1 rating in the category of Music, 2nd place in class B at the Alma College Marching Festival, Most outstanding music in class B at the Alma College Marching Festival, Most outstanding music in class B at the DeWitt Marching Festival, Community Performances for the Alma Women's Club, Alma Home for the Holidays Celebration, and Masonic Pathways, and Reid Lott, a member of the band, was selected to perform with the MSBOA All-State Band and Central Michigan University Honors Band. [2]
The sports offered at Alma High School include football, basketball, baseball, tennis, soccer, cross country, track, bowling, golf, swimming, wrestling, volleyball and softball. Cheerleading and Pompom squads are also fielded. Alma's fight song is based on Notre Dame's fight song, and is routinely played by the AHS Band at school events.