Ketchikan High School
| Ketchikan High School (Kayhi) | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public secondary |
| Principal | Sam Nelson |
| Students | 562 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Location | Ketchikan, Alaska, USA |
| Campus | Open |
| Colors | Maroon, White, & Gold |
| Mascot | King Salmon |
| Website | http://khs.kgbsd.org/ |
Ketchikan High School, often referred to as Kayhi, is the principal high school for the Southeast Alaska community of Ketchikan and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District.
Academics
Kayhi offers a variety of vocational and Advanced Placement classes. It has an automotive program, a welding class, a large maritime program, Vocational Medical Terminology, and offers AP opportunities in English, science, mathematics, and history.
Extracurriculars
Ketchikan High School's primary sports rivals are Juneau-Douglas High School and Thunder Mountain High School. Ketchikan's mascot is the King Salmon or the Kings, in reference to a king salmon and in connection to the Schoenbar Middle School mascot, the Knights. Kayhi girls' teams are known as the Lady Kings. The mascot is portrayed as a jumping salmon wearing a crown.
Kayhi is known for its focus on wrestling in autumn, basketball in the winter, and baseball in the spring. Swimming is also important, however, as is soccer, which has gained a great amount of visibility in the community. The Kayhi cheerleading squad also made a mark in history in 2010, becoming the first kayhi team to ever compete in the Alaska State Cheerleading Championships and bringing home a First place Trophy.[citation needed]
Other activities include:
- Academic Decathlon
- Football
- Baseball
- Boys' Basketball
- Boys' Soccer
- Cheerleading
- Concert Choir
- Cross-Country
- Dance Committee
- Dance Team
- Debate
- Girls' Basketball
- Girls' Soccer
- HOSA
- Japanese Club
- Jazz Choir
- National Honor Society
- Pep Club
- Pep Band
- Recycling Committee
- Robotics Club
- Rotary-Interact
- Softball
- SBA
- Swimming/Diving
- Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Band
- Track and Field
- Volleyball
- Wrestling
- Yearbook
Student life
Kayhi has roughly 500 students, many of whom know one another at least by appearance, if not by name, given the small size of the school. There is a low student-teacher ratio and many teachers enthusiastically organize events to boost student morale. Every Friday (or at the end of a school week) there is a "Friday Special" which entertains students during lunch time. Music is played during the beginning of lunch, a teacher or student introduces the activities of the day's special, and then there is the actual special activity. Some of the specials are knock offs of game shows such as Fear Factor. There have also been other ideas such as a "dance off" where students, and teachers performed dances for the student body, juggling exhibitions, "most outrageous dress" competitions and a contest to see who could fold a paper airplane and fly it the farthest. And, like many high schools, a "Pep Assembly" is normally held in order to raise school spirit in preparation for an upcoming sporting event, such as the Clark Cochrane Christmas Classic, which is a basketball tournament held every year at Kayhi in honor of Clark Cochrane. The tournament brings in students and basketball teams from around the U.S., Canada, and even Australia.
The school's woodworking department made an appearance in the "Alaska Special 2" episode of MythBusters, where Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman used the shop as the build site for their pykrete boat.
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District official site
- The Ketchikan High School – John Brown Basketball Tapes – originally aired on KTKN, courtesy of KFMJ
Coordinates: 55°21′12″N 131°40′38″W / 55.35333°N 131.67722°W