Nathan Hale High School

Nathan Hale High School
Location
10750 30th Ave NE
Seattle, Washington 98125 USA
Information
Type Public
Opened 1963
Principal Jill Hudson
Faculty 102[1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 1,171[1]
Color(s)              Red, white, blue
Mascot Raider
Newspaper The Sentinel
Yearbook Heritage
Website halehs.seattleschools.org

Nathan Hale High School is a public high school in Seattle, Washington. Nathan Hale is part of Seattle Public Schools and is a member of the Coalition of Essential Schools.[2]

History

Early years

The area northeast of Seattle was part of the Shoreline School District until 1954. For a number of years that area had only one secondary school, Jane Addams. Steady population growth during the 1950s prompted a need for a new high school. In the planning stage, the school was given the temporary name of Northeast High School. This was later changed to Meadowbrook High School. The site for the new school, originally part of the Fisher Dairy, had most recently been the Meadowbrook Golf Course owned by the Tachell family. While the school was under construction, new guidelines and procedures for the naming of schools were adopted. As a result, Meadowbrook was replaced by Nathan Hale, named after the Continental Army soldier. Once built, the factory model school building and parking lot were positioned on either side of Thornton Creek, which runs west to east through the property. The site is directly across the street from what is currently Jane Addams Middle School. Nathan Hale High School was one of several schools for which the Seattle Parks Department paid a portion of the building construction in exchange for title to adjacent land to be used for recreational facilities. The first principal, Claude Turner, helped design the school. In its first year, Hale opened to sophomores and juniors only, with only 1,206 students. Two years later, it had a student body of 2,002. By the late 1960s, Hale’s enrollment had reached 2,400, and 24 portables were in use.[3]

1970s

A new learning resource center opened in fall 1972, nearly doubling the size of the school’s original library. The community chose to use bond money for the learning resource center, rather than for an auditorium, so the high school continued to use the Jane Addams Middle School auditorium for its dramatic productions. From 1964 through the mid-1970s, Nathan Hale was a sports powerhouse, winning the Metro championships in several sports three out of four years in a row. The music department also excelled, with the stage band capturing numerous regional awards. The district’s 1978 desegregation plan cut the number of schools feeding Hale from ten to four. Some of these feeder schools were closed, drastically cutting into Hale’s enrollment, despite the addition of 9th graders in September 1979. Some students who would have attended Hale were sent to south end schools.[3]

Principals

State Testing Boycott

As of April 23, 2015, all 280 juniors at Nathan Hale boycotted the Smarter Balanced state tests. Taking these tests was not a graduation requirement for the junior class, but would be for the sophomore class. Many of teachers, parents, and administrators previously questioned the worthiness of the new state testing requirements.[4]

Newspaper/Website

Nathan Hale's journalism class, headed by Ted Lockery, writes for the Sentinel, Nathan Hale's official newspaper and website.

Radio

Nathan Hale is home to the nationally acclaimed radio station KNHC. It is mostly student-run, but has a full-time DJ. KNHC plays dance music, and is one of six stations monitored by Nielsen BDS for inclusion in Billboard Magazine's weekly Hot Dance Airplay chart. In addition, Nathan Hale boasts a Radio class taught by Simon Thwaits and Richard J. Dalton.

Sports

Nathan Hale is a member of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA). The school is currently in the second largest classification, known as 3A, and has been so since the 1984-85 school year. Prior to that it was in the largest classification. The Raiders are a member of the Metro League and Sea-King District.[5] Hale has traditionally been a rival to Ingraham High School[6] and Roosevelt High School due to the close proximity of the three schools, but the rivalry with Roosevelt diminished when the school changed classifications in 1997.[7] In 2014 the rivalry with Roosevelt was rekindled by Roosevelt's return to the Metro League.[8]

The school supports 16 WIAA activities, including: baseball, boys and girls basketball, cheer, cross country, football, golf, gymnastics, boys and girls soccer, softball, coed swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling. Three non-WIAA sanctioned sports are also fielded: boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse, and ultimate. The boys lacrosse team was founded in 1992, making Hale the first public high school in Seattle to have a field lacrosse team.[9]

In 2016, former NBA star Brandon Roy was hired as the head basketball coach and top recruit Michael Porter Jr., as well as his brothers Jontay Porter and Coban Porter, transferred to the school when their father, Michael Porter Sr., became the assistant coach at the University of Washington. This led to the school becoming nationally relevant, including a national #1 ranking on maxpreps.com. The basketball team completed the 2016-17 season undefeated, defeating Garfield High School (Seattle) 68-51 in the class-3A state championship game in Tacoma, Washington.[10]

WIAA State Championships

Nathan Hale has won five team state championships.[11]

Sport Year
Boys Cross Country 1966
Boys Gymnastics† 1970
Girls Track & Field[12] 1971
Boys Soccer[13] 1985
Boys Basketball 2017

† = Boys gymnastics in now a defunct sport

Individual State champions[11]

Notable alumni

Athletics

Other

Notes

  1. 1 2 "School Report for the 2012–2013 School Year" (PDF). Seattle Public Schools. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Lilly, Dick (November 20, 1996). "Six Notable Schools - They Shine With Creative, Unique Approaches". Seattle Times. Retrieved September 18, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Nile Thompson & Carolyn Marr (2002). "Building for learning - Seattle Public Schools Histories" (PDF).
  4. ↑ http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/nathan-hale-high-school-juniors-boycott-state-test/
  5. ↑
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Leutzinger, Rosie (March 18, 2003). "School Spotlight: Nathan Hale". Seattle Times. Retrieved September 18, 2010.
  7. ↑ Raley, Dan (January 6, 1997). "Reclassification Sets Off Scramble in State High Schools". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved September 20, 2010.
  8. ↑ Thomasseau, Allison. "Ballard, Garfield, and Roosevelt rekindle rivalries in Metro 3A League". USA Today High School Sports. USA Today. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  9. ↑ Smith, Craig. "Prep Beat -- Franklin And Hale Poised To Add To Lacrosse History". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "No. 1 Nathan Hale (Wash.) wins 3A state title led by showtime dunks from Michael Porter Jr.". USA Today High School Sports. 2017-03-05. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
  11. 1 2 WIAA Tournament History
  12. ↑ Spruill, Scott. "Girls Team State Meet Champions". Washington Track. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  13. ↑ PARIETTI, WALT (May 26, 1985). "JEFFERSON WINS 3RD STRAIGHT TITLE". Seattle Times.
  14. ↑ Raley, Dan (April 23, 2008). "Where Are They Now? Swimming great now gets her kicks from soccer". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved September 18, 2010.
  15. ↑ Raley, Dan (July 15, 2008). "Where Are They Now? Colella left hanging on swimming replay". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved September 18, 2010.
  16. ↑ USATF Leadership Page
  17. ↑ Washburn, Gary (December 22, 2008). "Schmetzer to assist Schmid in 2009". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved September 18, 2010.
  18. ↑ RALEY, DAN. "Where Are They Now? Ed Simmons, former NFL tackle". Seattle PI. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  19. ↑ "History : 70 Greatest Redskins". Washington Redskins. Archived from the original on October 14, 2007. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  20. ↑ Paynter, Susan (August 11, 2006). "NPR host proves what falls down can pop back up". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved September 18, 2010.
  21. ↑ Lewis, Mike (February 9, 2007). "Historian's voice still fighting to be heard". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved September 18, 2010.
  22. ↑ Owen, Rob. "Hari Sreenivasan: From Nathan Hale High to 'PBS NewsHour'". Seattle Times. Retrieved 6 November 2012.

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