| Roosevelt High School | |
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| 1410 NE 66th Street Seattle, Washington, 98115 USA |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1922 |
| Principal | Brian Vance |
| Faculty | 84[1] |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,710[1] |
| Color(s) | Green Gold |
| Mascot | Rough Riders |
| Information | (206) 252-4810 |
| Website | http://rhs.seattleschools.org/ |
Roosevelt High School (RHS) is a public school in the Seattle Public Schools district of Seattle, Washington, USA. Founded in the 1920s, Roosevelt continues to be one of the largest schools in the greater Seattle area.
The school offers a wide variety of academic courses as well as extracurricular activities. In a yearlong series of reports on RHS, NPR described it as "an above-average school in a below-average school district."[2]
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The school is named after Theodore Roosevelt; the school's team, the Rough Riders, is named after Roosevelt's famous military regiment. It subsequently gave its name to the Roosevelt neighborhood and nearby Roosevelt Way N.E.[3]
The school was designed by the Seattle School District's architect, Floyd Naramore, and constructed in 1921-22. From 2004 to 2006, the building was seismically retrofitted, modernized, and expanded while many of the school's original architectural elements were preserved. During this time classes were held in Lincoln High School. Architects for this work were Bassetti Architects.
Roosevelt High School has the only full-time drama program in the Seattle School District . Eight periods of drama are offered per day including directing, acting, technical theater, production, design, and a complete musical theater program. There are four private voice teachers, a vocal director, and a choreographer for the annual musical.
Roosevelt High School remains one of the last two public schools in the Seattle Metropolitan area that offers Latin . The Latin language club is affiliated with the National Junior Classical League, and remains one of the largest local chapters ; headed by Nora Macdonald, the Latin Language teacher.
In the Hands for a Bridge program, members choose to travel to either South Africa or Northern Ireland, where they help foster dialogue about diversity, prejudice, and social change. This group was created in 2001 by teachers Tom Nolet, Francene Watson, and Danny Rock with assistance from the University of Washington's Comparative History of Ideas program and the Jackson School of International Studies. Each student accepted to this program is enrolled in the HFB class, where an intensive semester-long study of literature, history, and the arts focuses on cultures in conflict.[4] The Northern Ireland travelers visit Hazelwood Intregrated College and Oakgrove Integrated College in Derry which is led by Paul Elwood and Chris Brownlee, while the South African travelers visit Isilimela Comprehensive School and Bellville High School (Hoërskool Bellville) in Cape Town.[5]
In 2006, students and their teachers designed a robot to fly in a weightless environment. When a sensor on the spherical robot perceives a beam of infrared light, it stops its rotation and, with the force caused by a set of motors spinning heavy flywheels, rotates the "front" to face the source of light.[6]
Roosevelt High School was home of the first successful program in Seattle oriented around students with Asperger's syndrome, a form of high functioning autism.
The marching band performs halftime shows at all home football games, basketball games, and occasionally volleyball games. Known as "The Pride of Seattle," this group of students also travels to and performs in multiple parades in the Northwest each year.[7]
The Roosevelt Orchestra program includes the Concert Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestra. The orchestras perform annually at various concerts and competitions, including the annual competition in Gresham, Oregon.[8] The group recently tied with crosstown rival Garfield in the 2011 festival.
The Roosevelt Jazz Band performs and competes all over the nation and has traveled internationally. The band has been a finalist many times in the Essentially Ellington Competition in New York, receiving Honorable Mention in 2010 and winning third place in 2000, second place in 2001, 2005 & 2009, 2011 and first place in 2002, 2007 and 2008.[9] Every year, the jazz band groups travel to Moscow, Idaho to compete in the Lionel Hampton Jazz festival, one of the largest festivals for young people in the world. Besides its renowned jazz band, there is an excellent vocal jazz, as well as two after-school jazz bands: Jazz Bands II and III. Jazz Band III was introduced at the beginning of the 2006-07 school year because of an increased number of jazz musicians arriving at Roosevelt.
Besides the jazz bands and orchestras, student musicians have the option to be in one of two concert bands. One band is called the Cadet Band, and consists predominantly of freshmen. The second concert band is the award-winning Symphonic Band, which competes in several local competitions.
Roosevelt High School is well known for its drama program. Each year they have a "Dramafest", a series of twelve student produced plays, a Winter Production, and a Spring Musical.
The girl's basketball team has won one state championship [10] and had a wide-release theatrical movie, The Heart of the Game based on their experiences.[11]
The boy's basketball team has won three state championships; in 1946, 1973 & 1982 and placed 2nd in 1965 & 1987.[12] The most recent state playoffs appearance occurred in 2009.
Roosevelt offers several languages, including: Latin, Spanish, Japanese, French, and is the only school in the city that offers American Sign Language.
The Roosevelt News is a National Pacemaker Award winning paper[13] produced monthly by students and overseen by a staff advisor.
59.9% - White
22.3% - Asian
9.0% - Black
7.4% - Hispanic
1.4% - American Indian/Alaska Native[14]
Alumni of Roosevelt High School include:
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