| Woodinville High School | |
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Care, Respect, Leadership
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| Woodinville, Washington, United States | |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1983 |
| School district | Northshore School District |
| Principal | Kurt Criscione |
| Faculty | 75 |
| Enrollment | 1,395 (2005) |
| Color(s) | Green, White, Blue |
| Mascot | Falcon |
| Website | schoolcenter.nsd.org/woodinville |
Woodinville High School is a public secondary school located in Woodinville, Washington and is part of the Northshore School District.
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Woodinville High School was built in 1983 on a 50-acre (200,000 m2) site. A special education and administration addition in 1990 expanded the facility. The athletics fields recently underwent a full modernization with new lighted baseball, tennis and softball fields. During the summer of 1997 the chemistry and physics labs were remodeled. In the early 2000s, the soccer field and track field events area was renovated. Currently, the school is undergoing a significant remodel in which all but the Gym and the Administration building are being razed and rebuilt. 60 classrooms are in use daily for students. In the 2009-2010 school year the students of Woodinville High School gained a brand new cafeteria. In addition, the school theater, gym and fields are being used in the evenings and on the weekends for special events by the community. Leota Junior High and Timbercrest Junior High, as well as other outside schools feed into Woodinville High School. Woodinville is a part of the Kingco 4A athletic conference.
WHS (as the school is known by its students and staff) is one of the three mainstream high schools in Northshore School District. The school offers a wide-range of celebrated curricular and extracurricular-based programs including the dramatic and fine arts, music, business, athletics and Science. [1] Every year, Woodinville High supports many athletic teams, including football, basketball (men's/women's), soccer (men's/women's), track and field, cross country, tennis (men's/women's) and women's Gymnastics team which, as of 2010, has won 4 state titles in a row. The graduating girls of 2010 never lost a single match.
From the school's opening in 1983 to 2006, the Drama Department was headed by Director Hjalmer Anderson. During his tenure at WHS, the acclaimed director built the program to be one of the top drama programs in the United States, and they were invited twice to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of the American High School Theatre Festival.[2] In 2006, Mr. Anderson retired and his position was filled by Mrs. Leslie Herlich.
The WHS music courses include Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band (those two groups combine to create the marching/pep band), orchestra, jazz band, guitar, choir (led by Ms. Kyra Settle), and piano lab. Most classes are conducted by Mr. Eric Lucas. Whenever the marching/pep band perform, they are led by student Senior and Junior drum majors. Students are elected to this position by their peers. The marching band performs at all home and playoff football and basketball games. They also march in the Macy's parade the day after Thanksgiving, and in Woodinville's All Fool's Day parade in the spring. There are also some concerts throughout the year. The largest concert is "An Evening at the Pops," held annually in May.
The current Principal is Kurt Criscione. Woodinville High School has a wide range of educational opportunities including AP Classes, NEVAC classes, WANIC classes, and school newspaper (Quill). Many art classes are offered, such as metal design (jewelry) and ceramics, as well as computer classes, such as CAD and computer animation. The school recently obtained a perfect 10 GreatSchools rating.[1] The AP classes offered are English, Economics, Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics B, Physics C, Spanish, French, German, US Government and Politics, US History, World History, European History, Art History, Calculus AB, and Statistics.