| Number of Schools Managed |
31 |
5 |
| Number of Students Managed |
18,934 students |
1,985 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$167,657,000 |
$16,541,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$172,076,000 |
$16,470,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$8,855 |
$8,333 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$9,088 |
$8,297 |
| District Graduation Rates |
57% |
88% |
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- Everett High School is a secondary school located in Everett, Washington, United States, which educates grades 9 through 12. The school enrolls approximately 1,700 students annually, more than triple the state and district average.
- The school colors of Everett High School are Blue and Gold. The school mascot is Sammy the Seagull. The school principal is Catherine Matthews.
- The school is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Geography
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Everett High School is located on the northern edge of downtown Everett. It is bounded on the south by 25th St., by 24th St. to the north, by Hoyt Ave. to the west, and by Rockefeller Ave. to the east. Colby Ave. and Wetmore Ave. run north to south through the campus.
- Layout
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Everett High is unusual in that it has a partially open campus. With parent permission, 11th and 12th grade students may leave campus during their lunch breaks. It is one of few high schools in the state that retains an even selectively permeable boundary. This is done out of necessity; it would be very difficult for staff to keep students on campus, with two streets running through the campus, student parking on neighboring streets, and many dining attractions only yards away.
- The school has seven buildings. On the western side of Colby are the main building, or the "A Building" to the South, the "Little Theater" to the Northwest, and the Science Building to the Northeast. Between the Colby Ave. and Wetmore Ave. are the "E Building," the "B Building," which is also called the Everett Civic Auditorium, and the "C Building," also known as the Commercial Building. The Auditorium houses JROTC classes, band, choir, a cafeteria, and a large auditorium.
- The "C Building" houses classes in foreign language, math, and some health classes. On the eastern side of Wetmore Ave. are the gymnasium and parking for staff and students. The student parking lot, more commonly called the Senior Lot, received much needed renovation and expansion prior to the 2005-06 school year. The Norm Lowry Gymnasium houses Richer Court, where basketball games are held.
- Academics
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As in the entire Everett School District, students must complete a scholarly paper, an autobiographical paper, and a senior project, then present the above to a panel of staff and community members in order to graduate. Everett High School offers Advanced Placement classes in science, English, math and history, including an advanced placement biology class offered every other year.
- Student activities
- Band
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Everett High School has one of the largest band programs in the area, with over 150 students. Members of the band participate in the pep band during the football season, and play concert music the rest of the year. Many students also participate in the jazz orchestra that practices before school, it is required that students take band during school to participate in the jazz orchestra.
- Most of the school year is spent on concert music, which consists of arrangements specifically for high school bands as well as a large number of arrangements for professional military and symphonic bands. The high school music department has a very large catalog of music, from classical transcriptions printed in the 19th century to high school arrangements of modern movie soundtracks that are ordered from time to time.
- The pep band plays at all home varsity football games, and many varsity home basketball games. It unusual in that it does not focus on marching for athletic events, but rather spirited pep performances. Until the cancellation of the Salty Sea Days parade through Everett, the pep band marched in the parade and also at the homecoming football game every year. Now it only marches at the homecoming game. The pep band is led by drum majors, who orchestrate logistics, conduct the band, choose music, and oversee behavior. There are usually between two and three drum majors every year. Drum majors are upperclassmen who are trusted by the director, capable musicians, and familiar with the band's workings.
- The jazz orchestra is unusually large, with over 50 students participating. The students usually rehearse every day of the week except Friday from 6:30 to 7:20 ten minutes before school begins. The jazz orchestra performs many shows other than concerts at the school, including performances at the heart walk at Qwest Field, and the Edmonds Jazz Connection. Students are often encouraged to sing solo vocal parts to a particular song, instead of play their instruments with the band. It can be a great learning experience for these students who have often never sang on stage previously.
- Running Start
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Everett feeds an unusually high number of students to the Running Start program. The program allows upperclassmen to take classes at Everett Community College for dual credit, free of charge. This is a very convenient arrangement for many students, because Everett Community College is only 1 mile (.62 km) to the north.
- Sports
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Everett has teams in golf, tennis, swimming, wrestling, basketball, bowling, track and field, soccer, cross country, volleyball, and football.
- In the 1998-1999 season the boys' tennis team captured the WESCO 3A conference crown for the first time in school history.
- For the first time in decades, the football team competed in the State Tournament in 2005.
- Everett High Cross Country has won back to back district titles in 2006 and 2007
- The Everett High Track Team has won many championships such as Wesco champs, Districts Champs, Freshman Champs, City Champs, Eason Champs, and 3A State Champs since 2003.
- Everett High Girls Soccer team won the District 1 championship and the WIAA 2008-2009 State Championship
- Notable alumni
- Chris Chandler, former NFL Quarterback, guided the Atlanta Falcons to the Super Bowl in the 1998-1999 season.
- Henry M. Jackson, United States senator and presidential candidate.
- Dennis Erickson, current football coach at Arizona State University.
- Mike Price, current coach of the University of Texas at El Paso and former coach of Washington State University football teams.
- Jim Lambright, former coach of the University of Washington football team
- Don Van Patten, member New Hampshire General Court
- External links
- Everett High School
- Everett Public Schools district website
- Source: Wikipedia; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
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