Wilmot Union High School

Wilmot Union High School
Motto	"Home of the Panthers"
Established	1870s
Type	public, grades 9-12
District Administrator	Daniel S. Kopp
Business Manager	David Betz
Principal	Joel Adamczyk
Assistant Principal	Luke Braden
Assistant Principal	Thomas Blaire
Location	Wilmot, Wisconsin, USA
Campus	single, suburban
Enrollment	1,135 (2006)
Faculty	122 (2006)
Colors	Red, White, and Black
Mascot	Panthers
Homepage	wilmothighschool.com

Wilmot Union High School is a public secondary school located in Wilmot, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the town of Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Founded in the 1870s, the high school serves grades 9 to 12. Both the school and the community are named after the Wilmot Proviso, by David Wilmot.

The school is the sole member of the Wilmot Union High School District, and is fed by several elementary districts, including Randall School District, Twin Lakes School District, Silver Lake School District, Salem School District, Wheatland School District, and the Trevor-Wilmot Consolidated School District.

The following K-8 schools feed into Wilmot Union High School:

• Randall Consolidated School, Randall (Randall School District)
• Riverview School, Silver Lake (Silver Lake School District)
• Lakewood School, Twin Lakes(Twin Lakes School District)
• Wilmot Grade School, Wilmot (Trevor-Wilmot Consolidated School District)
• Trevor Grade School, Trevor (Trevor-Wilmot Consolidated School District)
• Wheatland Center Grade School (Wheatland, Wisconsin) (split with Westosha Central High School)
• Salem Grade School, Salem (primarily feeds into Westosha Central High School)

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

The Wilmot Wrestling team has been conference champions for 8 out of the last 10 years. Swimming is also a great sport to try and has won conference several times.

Music

• The Wilmot Guardsmen Marching Band includes all members of the Wilmot band program.
• The Wind Ensemble is an honors class made up of sophomores, juniors and seniors in the Wilmot band program. Membership is by audition only.
• The Panther Band and Red & White Concert Bands are open to all instrumental music students at Wilmot High School.
• The Jazz Ensemble is open to all sophomores, juniors and seniors in the Wilmot band program who are enrolled in one of the large ensembles.
• String Orchestra is open to all students who play violin, viola, cello or stringed bass.
• Small Pop Ensemble is a contemporary music ensemble made up entirely of students. The students create the music, rehearse and perform as a working band. The mission of the class is to offer college entrance level music theory to the students of Wilmot High School. The students then put that knowledge into practice to create the band. Small Pop Ensemble performs for the Wilmot Student Body, at the dinner concert "SENSATION" and tours the area grade schools.

On June 11, 2011, a student-lead pop group won a statewide WSMA Battle Of The Bands competition, "The Les Paul Launchpad Competition", and earned the school's band program $5,000. The music department used the money to purchase four Yamaha electric pianos, and has gotten approval from the school board to create The Chase Promenade Midi and Piano Laboratory to house these instruments. The Laboratory will be used for classes such as Small Pop Ensemble.^[1]

Academics

In April 2015, the Wilmot Academic Decathlon team earned first place for Division 2 at the Academic Decathlon National Championships in Garden Grove, California. The Wilmot Academic Decathlon team was established in 2004.

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