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{{Short description|High school in Trenton, Michigan, United States}}
{{Infobox secondary school
{{Infobox school
|name = Trenton High School
|logo = [[Image:THS2.jpg|200px|Trenton High School]]
| name = Trenton High School
| image = THS2.jpg
|established = 1900
| logo =
|type = Public secondary
| motto =
|grades = 9-12
| established = 1900
|address = 2601 Charlton Road
| closed =
|city = [[Trenton, Michigan|Trenton]]
| type = Public secondary
|state = [[Michigan]]
| status =
|country = [[United States|USA]]
| principal =
|coordinates = {{Coord|42.143|-83.2|type:edu_region:US-MI|display=inline,title}}
| teaching_staff = 43.58 (FTE)<ref name=NCES/>
|enrollment = about 1100
| ratio = 21.06<ref name=NCES/>
|campus = [[Suburban]]
| enrollment = 839 (2023-24)<ref name=NCES>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=2633900&ID=263390006956|title=Twenton High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=May 31, 2020}}</ref>
|mascot = [[Troy|Trojan]]s
| grades = 9-12
|colors = blue and gold
| streetaddress = 2601 Charlton Road
| newspaper = Trojan Trumpet
| city = [[Trenton, Michigan|Trenton]]
| yearbook = Monguagon
| state = [[Michigan]]
|website = [http://www.trenton.k12.mi.us/index.aspx?school=6 Trenton High School]
| zipcode = 48183
| country = United States
| coordinates = {{Coord|42.143|-83.2|type:edu_region:US-MI|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| accreditation =
| campus = [[Suburban]]
| colors = Blue and gold {{colorbox|navy}}{{colorbox|gold}}
| nickname = Trojans
| rival =
| yearbook = Monguagon
| newspaper =
| website = {{url|https://www.trentonschools.com/Domain/8}}
}}

{{Infobox High school student assessments in Michigan
| year = 2021&ndash;22
| M-STEP Advanced = 17.4 / 13.1
| M-STEP Proficient = 28.6 / 26.8
| M-STEP PR Proficient = 12.7 / 43.2
| M-STEP Not Proficient = 41.3 / 16.9
| PSAT Total =
| SAT Total = 1160
| SAT Total change =
| ref = <ref name="misd">{{cite web |url=https://www.mischooldata.org/annual-education-report-1/ |title=MI School Data Annual Education Report|publisher=MI School Data|access-date=2023-01-10}}</ref>
| change ref = <ref name="misd" />
}}
}}


'''Trenton High School''' is a public high school in [[Trenton, Michigan]], one of four schools in the Trenton Public School District. The school serves the city of Trenton and is a [[magnet school]] for [[special education]] students, specifically for those with hearing disabilities, from across [[Downriver]].
'''Trenton High School''' is a public high school in [[Trenton, Michigan]], one of four schools in the Trenton Public School District. The school serves the city of Trenton and is a [[magnet school]] for [[special education]] students, specifically for those with hearing disabilities, from across [[Downriver]].
Enrollment for the 2012-13 school year was about 1200.
Enrollment for the 2012-13 school year was about 1200.

==Mission==
The Trenton High School staff is committed to educating all its students in learning the essential skills necessary to become well rounded, responsible, caring, lifelong learning citizens.<ref>http://www.trenton.k12.mi.us/ths.htm</ref>

==History==
The current school complex was constructed in 1953 on a plot bounded by West, Westfield and Charlton roads and Edsel Drive.
The school was built to handle a surge in students following World War II and the expansion of western Trenton, which was quickly expanding.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trentonmi.org/nav/departments/index.asp?Profile=32|title=City of Trenton Web site|accessdate=2008-11-21}}</ref>
The building was known as West Road Elementary School and housed elementary school students until Hedke, Anderson, Foley and Owen elementary schools opened in the 1950s.

The original campus consisted of a two-story, L-shaped structure, with academic center on the eastern side and athletics on the west.
Later, during the 1967-68 school year, a two-story wing was added to the north of the building, housing the school's library and classrooms. The school is due for major mechanical and electrical upgrades starting in the spring of 2009 as part of the recently passed bond issue.
The school's football field received major renovations in 2001.
The existing high school replaced Slocum-Truax School, which opened in 1924 and took up an entire city block at Harrison Avenue and Fifth Street. The building—named after city founders Abram Caleb Truax and Giles Slocum—cost the district $165,000 to build.<ref>http://www.trentonschools.com/district/history</ref>

The school's first state championship came in the form of the Class D boys' state track title in 1927.<ref>http://www.mhsaa.com/sports/btr/yearly.htm</ref>
The structure, which later served as a junior high school, was demolished in the late 1970s, although the building's stone sign was saved and is displayed on the site, now a public park.
Until Slocum-Truax, high school classes were held in buildings with other classes.
The first schoolhouse in Trenton was constructed in the 1830s near the [[Detroit River]]. Later, a log structure at what is now Jefferson Avenue and Elm Street also served as a school.
The first designated high school was a two-story building near Slocum's Island built in the 1870s.<ref>http://www.trentonschools.com/district/history</ref>
The district also operated out of a red building at St. Joseph and Third streets built in 1900 for $10,000, records show.<ref>http://www.trentonhistoricalsociety.org/history.html</ref> That structure was torn down in 1963.

==Athletics==

Trenton is a member of the [[Downriver League]]. The school's mascot is the Trojan.
The school is best known for its [[hockey]] teams, which have won 14 state titles in 20 championship game appearances since the late 1970s- including an unprecedented 28-0-0 season in 1995-96, and the most recent state championship in the 13-14 season.<ref>http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080309/SPORTS09/803090657/1064/SPORTS16</ref>
Their main rivals are [[Detroit Catholic Central High School]] and [[Wyandotte Roosevelt High School]]The school has been home to some Michigan coaching legends as well, such as national hockey coach of the year in 2013-14 Mike Turner, winningest coach in Michigan history. Also notable are the girls' [[softball]] team, boys' [[baseball]] team, boys' and girls' swimming and diving team, the boys' [[track and field]] team, and the boys tennis team making the state finals 3 years in a row (2011-14). Trenton also played a 1998-99 Trenton vs. CC game that never ended because of an injury. Trenton won the game in 2010 during a Gatorade Replay the Series game, with the score being 4-2. In 2004 the boys' golf team won its first state title an had state ranked teams in the 2 years that followed.

==Music==
The Trenton High School Instrumental Music Department has been widely recognized for its accomplished musicians.
Alumni have performed with the [[Mahler Chamber Orchestra]], [[London Symphony Orchestra]], [[BBC Symphony Orchestra]] and Royal Opera House Orchestra.

The THS Hockey Pep Band has been featured in the [[Detroit News]] and Hockey Weekly, and appeared several times on the WDIV-TV program "State Champs," for which the band performed the theme song. The group was the first hockey pep band ever to play at the state hockey semifinals and finals.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
The 130-plus member THS Marching Band has been a Michigan Competing Bands Association Top Ten Finalist seventeen times and has performed around the country, including at the 1999, 2000 and 2001 National Outback Bowl in Tampa.<ref>http://www.outbackbowl.com/events/halftime_show.html</ref>

The THS Band was also featured in a command performance on WXYZ's "Kelly and Company" salute to late University of Michigan head football coach, [[Bo Schembechler]].
The THS Jazz Band has performed at the Detroit Montreux Jazz Festival, Toronto Music In The Parks Festival, Virginia Beach Music Festival, Chicago Navy Pier Jazz Weekend, and all around the state of Michigan.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
THS Jazz Band alumni have been jazz ensemble members at [[University of Michigan]], [[Michigan State University]], [[Western Michigan University]], and [[Central Michigan University]].

Former Trenton HS Band Director Rick Goward is the director of bands at [[Henry Ford Community College]] and leads the school Jazz Ensemble.
The Trenton Jazz Band also performed for Vice President [[Al Gore]] at the 1998 opening of the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit.
Mike Kurilko has been the Director of Bands at Trenton High School since 1987.

==Television production==
Trenton Public Schools television started in 1978 by English teacher Dennis Hamilton. Students in the Television Production Classes - Introduction to Electronic Media Production and Advanced Electronic Media Production - are trained to conceptualize, research, shoot, design graphics, and edit television programs.

The present television facility was conceptualized by Hamilton in 1981, built, and dedicated in October 1982. Hamilton, and the late Superintendent Neil E. Van Riper, negotiated an agreement with then cable company United Cable of Michigan, to split the monies allotted to the City of Trenton's Public Access Studio between the City of Trenton and Trenton Public Schools in order to equip the television studio constructed in the former vocal music room in the high school. A total of $186,500 was spent, specifically on television equipment for the district.

Leanne Shultz currently runs the program.


==Notable alumni==
==Notable alumni==
*[[Jim Diamond (music producer)|Jim Diamond]] is an American music producer, musician, and runs Ghetto Recorders studio, formerly located in Detroit, MI.
*Jordan Mott is an actor having performed in a number of Broadway plays and movies.
* [[Ann Marie Lipinski]], former Chicago Tribune editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, who was editor of the Trojan Trumpet [https://web.archive.org/web/20081013094433/http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/97/Fal97/mt9f97.html], graduated in 1974.

* [[Anthony Bass]], current [[Toronto Blue Jays]] relief pitcher.
*Debbie Tirico (Gibaratz), a sports star in high school and former Syracuse University basketball, is the wife of Mike Tirico, ESPN announcer.
*[[Bradley A. Smith]], Law professor, a Clinton appointee to the Federal Election Commission, elected Chairman of the Commission in 2004, was born and raised in Trenton, elected Senior Class President, and graduated Trenton High in 1976.

* [[Mary Lynn Rajskub]], comedian and actress, was born and raised in Trenton, and graduated from Trenton High School in 1989.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Suchyta |first1=Sue |title=Trenton native Mary Lynn Rajskub coming home for three-day show |url=https://www.thenewsherald.com/2022/07/18/trenton-native-mary-lynn-rajskub-headed-home/ |access-date=21 June 2024 |work=The News Herald |date=18 July 2022}}</ref>
*[[Jim Diamond (music producer)|Jim Diamond]] is an American music producer, musician, and runs Ghetto Recorders studio, Detroit, MI.
* [[J. J. Putz]], a relief pitcher for the [[Seattle Mariners]], [[New York Mets]], [[Chicago White Sox]] and Arizona Diamondbacks as well as a [[2007 MLB All-Star Game]] participant, was raised in Trenton, and graduated from Trenton High School in 1995.

* [[Ann Marie Lipinski]], former Chicago Tribune editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, who was editor of the Trojan Trumpet [http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/97/Fal97/mt9f97.html], graduated in 1974.

* [[Anthony Bass]], current [[MLB]] player

*[[Bradley A. Smith]] Law professor, a Clinton appointee to the Federal Election Commission, elected Chairman of the Commission in 2004, was born and raised in Trenton, elected Senior Class President, and graduated Trenton High in 1976.

* [[Mary Lynn Rajskub]], comedian and actress, was born and raised in Trenton, and graduated from Trenton High School in 1989.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}

* Irwin Kemp (1927) brought home a collection of four gold medals from the 1927 [[Michigan High School Athletic Association]] track and field championships; in addition to running the anchor-leg on Trenton's victorious 880-yard relay, Kemp took first-place in the javelin throw, the 100-yard, and 220-yard dash.<ref>http://www.mhsaa.com/MHSAA_ARCHIVE/sports/btr/yearlyindv1920.html</ref>

* [[J. J. Putz]], a relief pitcher for the [[Seattle Mariners]], [[New York Mets]], [[Chicago White Sox]] and Arizona Diamandsbacks as well as a [[2007 MLB All-Star Game]] participant, was raised in Trenton, and graduated from Trenton High School in 1995.

*Professional Comedian [[Tim Slagle]] was raised in Trenton, and graduated Trenton High in 1976
*Professional Comedian [[Tim Slagle]] was raised in Trenton, and graduated Trenton High in 1976
*[[Psychobilly]] frontman [[Jim Leedy]], of the cult band [[Elvis Hitler]] was born and raised in Trenton, and graduated Trenton High in 1979.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
*[[Psychobilly]] frontman Jim Leedy, of the cult band [[Elvis Hitler]] was born and raised in Trenton, and graduated Trenton High in 1979.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}

* Science fiction author [[Sarah Zettel]] was raised in Trenton and is a 1984 graduate of Trenton High School.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
* Science fiction author [[Sarah Zettel]] was raised in Trenton and is a 1984 graduate of Trenton High School.{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}
*[[Toronto Blue Jays]] starting pitcher [[Matt Shoemaker]] grew up in Trenton, and graduated from Trenton High School in 2004.

*[[Andy Greene]], professional hockey player for the [[New York Islanders]] [https://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/3871]
*[[Los Angeles Angels]] starting pitcher [[Matt Shoemaker]] grew up in Trenton, and graduated from Trenton High School in 2004.

*[[Andy Greene]] Professional hockey player for the [[New Jersey Devils]] [http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/3871]

*[[Tom Burkhard]] is American television producer and writer.
*[[Tom Burkhard]] is American television producer and writer.
* Former NHL player [[Larry DePalma]] was born in Trenton and is a 1983 Trenton High School graduate.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reference |first1=Hockey |title=Larry DePalma |url=https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/d/depalla01.html |access-date=April 24, 2023 |website=Hockey Reference}}</ref>

*[[Mandee Gibson]] is rumored to be a blood relative to the great Michael R. Gibson.
*[[Michael R. Gibson]] is a former Specialist in the U.S. Army, having served two combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq.

*James Batcheller, director of bands at [[Central Michigan University]], is a THS Band alumnus.[http://www.music.cmich.edu/about_the_school/faculty/faculty.php?id=11]

* Lt. Gen. Ronald F. Sams, the Inspector General of the Air Force, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C.. is a former drum major for the Trenton High School Marching Band.[http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=8362]

* Other notable THS Music Department graduates have performed on Broadway (Andrew Fitch - "[[Will Rogers Follies]]" and "[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]"), film (Natalie McNeil played an extra in a few movies - "[[Bad Boys 2]]" and "[[Spider-Man 3]]"/[[Mary Lynn Rajskub]] - "[[Firewall (film)|Firewall]]" with [[Harrison Ford]], "[[Little Miss Sunshine]]", "Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, & Blonde"), television ([[Mary Lynn Rajskub]] - "[[24 (TV series)|24]]" as Chloe O'Brien), and with renown musicians such as blues legends [[James Cotton]] (Shaun McDonald - keyboards) and A.C. Reed (Dan Coscarelly - guitar), and with artists [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]] and the [[P-Funk All-Stars]] and Aretha Franklin (Larry Fratangelo - percussion.) Trenton band alum and clarinet player, Ramon Wodkowski, has performed with orchestras including the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra (London), and the Royal Opera House Orchestra (London.) He has also toured with Grammy winning polka legend, [[Jimmy Sturr]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}

* Author and Inventor Steven J. Frey (featured on Season 2 of ABC's [[American Inventor]]) was born in Trenton is a 1983 graduate of Trenton High School.

* Former NHL player [[Larry DePalma]] was born in Trenton and is a 1983 Trenton High School graduate.

* Peggy Wood, class of 1965, married [[Bobby Orr]]


==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*{{official website|https://www.trentonschools.com/Domain/8}}
* [http://www.trenton.k12.mi.us/index.aspx?school=6 Official Website]
* [http://www.trenton.k12.mi.us/ Trenton Public Schools]
* [https://www.trentonschools.com/ Trenton Public Schools]

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Trenton High School
Address
Map
2601 Charlton Road

Trenton
,
Michigan
48183

United States
Coordinates42°08′35″N 83°12′00″W / 42.143°N 83.2°W / 42.143; -83.2
Information
TypePublic secondary
Established1900
Teaching staff43.58 (FTE)[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment839 (2023-24)[1]
Student to teacher ratio21.06[1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s)Blue and gold   
NicknameTrojans
YearbookMonguagon
Websitewww.trentonschools.com/Domain/8
Student assessments
2021–22 school
year[2]
M-STEP 11th grade proficiency rates
(Science / Social Studies)
Advanced %17.4 / 13.1
Proficient %28.6 / 26.8
PR. Proficient %12.7 / 43.2
Not Proficient %41.3 / 16.9
Average test scores
SAT Total1160

Trenton High School is a public high school in Trenton, Michigan, one of four schools in the Trenton Public School District. The school serves the city of Trenton and is a magnet school for special education students, specifically for those with hearing disabilities, from across Downriver. Enrollment for the 2012-13 school year was about 1200.

Notable alumni

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Twenton High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  2. ^ "MI School Data Annual Education Report". MI School Data. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
  3. ^ Suchyta, Sue (18 July 2022). "Trenton native Mary Lynn Rajskub coming home for three-day show". The News Herald. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  4. ^ Reference, Hockey. "Larry DePalma". Hockey Reference. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
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