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Mountlake Terrace High School 
"To be, not to seem."Location Mountlake Terrace, Washington, USA Coordinates 47°48′06″N 122°17′17″W / 47.80167°N 122.28806°WCoordinates: 47°48′06″N 122°17′17″W / 47.80167°N 122.28806°W Information Type Public Secondary School Established 1960 (Rebuilt 1991) School district Edmonds School District #15 Principal Greg Schwab Grades 9, 10, 11, 12 Enrollment 1,600 (approx., as of 2010)[1] Campus type Suburban Color(s) Silver
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WhiteMascot Hawks Website http://www.edmonds.wednet.edu/mths/ Mountlake Terrace High School is a public high school in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, and is part of the Edmonds School District. The school is also known for its high-performing student newspaper (the Hawkeye) and its jazz band. The school received attention when it became the first suburban High School in the nation to adopt the experimental Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Small Schools project. Due to budget constraints, this program was discontinued as of the 2008-09 school year.
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Academics
As of the 2008-2009 school year Mountlake Terrace High School is a registered Project Lead The Way magnet school. Project Lead The Way is a national STEM educational program that helps give middle and high school students the rigorous ground-level education they need to develop strong backgrounds in science and engineering.[2] The High School offers engineering and robotics classes that offer college and university level credit if an AP exam is taken. Approximately 100 students are enrolled in this program.
In September 2003 the school reorganized under five "small schools," [3]each with a different emphasis: the Terrace Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Discovery School, the Innovation School, the Renaissance School and the Achievement, Opportunity and Scholarship School. The school received a $833,000 grant in return for their participation. [4] The effort had been met with mixed reactions.[5] Students were to stay in a school until their Junior year, or file a petition with an Administrator to transfer.
Theater department
Mountlake Terrace's Theater Company, or the MTTC, has been nationally recognized as one of the top in the nation. The current director, Jeannie Brzovic, makes sure of this every year. Last summer (2009), the cast and crew of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska to perform (twice) at the International Thespian Festival. This honor is only given to select high school theater departments throughout the nation, and rarely has ever been given to first-time participants (as the MTTC had been).
Mountlake Terrace's Theatre sports team has been much accredited for their superior performance capabilities two years straight, winning first place at Market Place Theater's "Hogan Cup", an improvisational performance competition between Terrace and schools around the greater Seattle area.
Music program
Mountlake Terrace High School is best known for its exceptional music program. The MTHS music department is recognized nationally and internationally for its excellence. The top wind band, Chamber Winds, frequently performs at local music festivals, such as the University of Washington Music festival and Central Washington University's music festival, and also has gone on several European tours. There are 3 concert bands and 2 jazz bands. The jazz band is well decorated on local, national, and international levels with performances at festivals and competitions all over the world. They have gone to the Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival and Competition in New York in 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2008; they placed 3rd in the competition in 2005 and in 2011, they also received an honorable mention in 2002.[6] The Jazz band has also gone on several European tours. The top jazz choir, Dynamics, was a winner of the Lionel Hampton jazz festival in Idaho, 2009, the third win in a row for the choir. Dynamics is one of the best choirs in all of the northwest and winning the Lionel Hampton jazz festival is nothing new to them. Mountlake Terrace is also know for their all girls audition choir, Accents, as well as having a non-audition Chamber Choir.[citation needed] The MTHS orchestra has also been recognized with annual trips to Gresham, OR and other places.
Athletics
Mountlake Terrace High School's athletics department offers a variety of programs, including the following for the 2010-2011 year:[7]
Football Boys, Girls Volleyball, Boys Tennis, Cross Country, Girls Soccer, Girls Swimming, Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Boys Swimming, Wrestling, Track and Field, Soccer, Girls Tennis, Boys Baseball, Girls Fastpitch Softball, Golf (Boys & Girls).The 2005 football team had the best record in twenty years for the school, with a 5-5 record. The 2005 team had four players move onto Junior College at Ventura Community College. In 2008 the team amounted a 4-6 record, concluding with a victory over Monroe High School. In 2009 the team went 6-4 and made it to the playoffs for the first time in school history.[8]
Notable alumni
- Mark O'Connor, fiddler (musician). He has talked about how there was virtually no music program when he attended the school.[9]
History
The existing school is a replacement facility constructed in 1991[10] and designed by Bassetti Architects.
The Fight song is to the tune of the University of Michigan's fight song, and the chorus is as follows: Hail to the Hawks so valiant Hail to the conquering heroes Hail to the Terrace Hawks The leaders of the West
References
- ^ Edmonds School District
- ^ PLTW, retrieved online 2011-05-16
- ^ Small Schools Project, retrieved online 2011-05-16
- ^ Seattle Times article, 2005-02-16, retrieved online 2011-05-16
- ^ Bob Geballe. "Bill Gates' Guinea Pigs". Seattle Weekly. http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0529/050720_news_gateseducation.php. Retrieved 2006-11-02.
- ^ de Barros, Paul (2005-05-16). "Local school bands swing, nearly sweep competition". Seattle Times. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002276210_ellington16m.html.
- ^ School website, accessed online 2011-05-16
- ^ Debbie Bennet. "Mountlake Terrace Hawks Football". http://www.eteamz.com/terracefootball/index.cfm.
- ^ Mark O'Connor. "Diaries:Mountlake Terrace High School graduate of 1979". http://markoconnor.com/index.php?page=bio&family=mark&category=01--Diaries__&display=1615&from=12.
- ^ New High School Goes Green, 2009-06-25, retrieved online 2011-05-16
See also
External links
- Mountlake Terrace High School website
- MTHS bands website
- Greatschools.org
- Project Lead The Way
- Catherine A. Wallach, Converting a Comprehensive High School Into Small Learning Communities: A Case Study of Mountlake Terrace High School, 2002
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