- Edmonds-Woodway High School is one of five high schools in the Edmonds School District in Edmonds, Washington, USA. It serves students in grades 9-12.
- Principal Michelle Trifunovic, and assistant principals Geoff Bennett and Rob Johnson, are the current administrative leadership team. Trifunovic replaced Edmonds-Woodway's long term principal, Alan Weiss, who retired in 2007.
- The school's schedule was changed for the 2009-2010 school year. It is based on a 100-minute, 3-period block schedule, consisting of 1st, 3rd, and 5th periods on Monday and Wednesday and 2nd, 4th, and 6th periods on Tuesday and Thursday. On Friday, students go to all six classes for roughly 50 minutes each. This schedule was modeled on the one used by another school in the same district, Meadowdale High School. The school follows a semester schedule.
- The school's mascot is the Warrior.
- History
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Edmonds-Woodway was formed when Edmonds High School and Woodway High School, neighboring schools with a traditional rivalry, merged in 1990, after construction of a new school on the site of the old Edmonds High. The new building has good public access, across from Stevens Hospital, at the intersection of 76th Avenue and 212th St., close to Highway 99. The school is also accessible off 220th St., near exit 179 off Interstate I-5. The new building opened in the fall of 1998, receiving several regional and national awards, including the 1990 Masonry Institute of Washington's Masonry Excellence Award, for the use of masonry throughout the project, as well as the prestigious national annual design award of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International for the 1999 year, the James D. MacConnell Award for outstanding new educational facilities serving the needs of students, staff, and the community, and facilitating student achievement. Bassetti Architects of Seattle were the architectural design firm for the new building.
- Culture
- Deaf Community
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Edmonds-Woodway has the largest Deaf student population in the Edmonds School District, due to special programs offered. A number of Deaf students attend from surrounding school districts, who may decide to contract with ESD for their students to attend the EWHS program in cases where they cannot offer a comprehensive program to meet the needs of their Deaf students. Because of the presence of the Deaf student program and its resources, Edmonds-Woodway also offers a highly regarded ASL language program. American Sign Language is the language used by the Deaf community in the United States. Four years of instruction in ASL are offered to Hearing students at Edmonds-Woodway, who can take ASL in fulfillment of the World Languages requirement for high school graduation. Some students continue on to careers as Deaf Interpreters or as DHH Teachers (Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing). Nearby Shoreline Community College offers a two-year training program for Deaf Interpreters.
- Academics
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Edmonds-Woodway is currently ranked as the # 318 high school in America, by Newsweek Magazine.The school hosts the only International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in the Edmonds School District, which is one of only eight in the state of Washington to do so. The Edmonds-Woodway IB program is one of the largest in the Pacific Northwest, with 600 IB-enrolled students and 60 full-IB Diploma graduates in 2009. Because of enrollment limitations in this popular and valuable program, in-district students whose home high school is not Edmonds-Woodway may participate in the program only as full-IB program students. Students whose home high school is Edmonds-Woodway may participate as partial-IB students (Certificate Candidates), taking IB classes they choose. Many Certificate Candidates take IB tests in several IB subject diplomas. These subject diplomas may qualify them for advanced placement in college coursework.
- In 2009, Edmonds-Woodway student Sally Chu was named as the school's first US Presidential Scholar. In 2005, the school boasted 8 National Merit Scholar Finalists, the most of any high school in the state. In 2006, 94% of the tenth graders met or exceeded reading standards on the standardized test, the WASL. 67% met or exceeded math standards. That same year, the Edmonds-Woodway Deaf Academic Bowl Team competed for the first time. It was the first team in the history of the Academic Bowl to win a Regional competition their first year.
- Athletics
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Edmonds-Woodway hosts the Edmonds School District Stadium, which is the home field for all high schools in the Edmonds School District. EW's traditional in-district football rival is Meadowdale. The school has seen success recently in its football, undefeated for two seasons in a row before going 8-2 in the 2008 season, thus effectively ending the streak. The team has also made it to the state semi-finals in both 2006 and 2007. In addition, girl's volleyball, girl's tennis, and men's basketball programs, have either have made, advanced deeply or even won state tournaments in the past five years.
- Cheerleading
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EWHS hosts an unusual cheerleading program; no coach is allowed to stay for more than four years. This continual addition of "fresh insight" has allowed the program to maintain high levels of talent and training without favoritism or improvement by the coach.
- In 2006 the EWHS cheerleading program decided against having male cheerleaders on the team. They now field a completely female squad.
- Music Program
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Edmonds-Woodway's music program includes bands and jazz bands, orchestras, and choirs. The Edmonds-Woodway Jazz Ensemble I is well-known throughout the greater Seattle area, and has performed in New York City at the Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival on two occasions. The band also participates yearly in Moscow, Idaho at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. In addition, in early 2009 they were invited to take part in the Swing Central jazz festival in Savannah, Georgia, but did not place as finalists.
- Edmonds-Woodway also supports three concert groups - the Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Wind Symphony, requiring audition. Choirs include Bel-Canto, for all students interested in choir, and Mello-Aires, a small ensemble with audition required, which performs and competes. A newer jazz choir also performs on occasions. Orchestral groups include Concert Orchestra, for freshman string players, Symphonic Orchestra, for grades 10-12, and Chamber Orchestra, a small group chosen by audition. For selected concerts, Full Orchestra includes advanced wind and percussion players from the Wind Symphony group. Two academic music courses are also offered: History of Rock and Roll, and IB Music, music theory and music history for instrumental performers.
- Craft Fair
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On the first Saturday each December, the Parent Music Boosters hold a holiday craft fair. Held in the Great Hall since 1993, this is a fundraiser for the music program. Over 60 crafters participate, with a review committee choosing varied holiday arts and crafters from applications. Student groups from the orchestra, choir and wind programs perform, and many music students also volunteer.
- Big Band Dance
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Held every year in April as a school dance, the dance is set entirely to live swing music, mostly from the 1920s to 1950s. The school's two jazz bands perform, as well as the College Place Middle School jazz band and Madrona Middle School's jazz band. Nearly all five hours of the dance are live music, with an hour of professional swing dancing lessons held before the dance. David Quinn has been the notable emcee for the past few years.
- Notable alumni
- Rick Steves, host of his own TV show, celebrated Marijuana activist and author of several books about traveling Europe on a budget (graduated from the old Edmonds High School, before it merged with Woodway High School).
- Anna Faris, actress. Best known for roles in Just Friends (2005), Lost in Translation (2003), and star of the Scary Movie series.
- Kevin Forrest, professional soccer player for the Seattle Sounders
- External links
- Official Site: Edmonds-Woodway HS
- Official Edmonds-Woodway Music Department
- Edmonds-Woodway Parent Staff Organization
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