Ashland High School (Oregon)

Ashland High School is an American high school located at 201 S. Mountain Ave., Ashland, Oregon.

Ashland High School, located near the Southern Oregon University campus, is a comprehensive four-year high school of approximately 1175 students with 70 teaching faculty. It is accredited by the Northwest Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges and is a member of the AAAA Southern Oregon Conference.

Ashland follows a semester academic calendar with classes meeting every other day for ninety-five minutes each. Each course has a value of 1 credit, with a total of 50 credits required to graduate.

Statement of Philosophy

We teachers, parents, students, administrators, and community members recognize and accept personal responsibility for education that integrates four essential goals:

1) Enhance Best Practice on teaching and learning while being receptive to new approaches. technologies, and lifestyles that reflect the values of a democratic society.
2) Create a balance between cooperative and individual learning styles.
3) Model respect for the individual.
4) Use teamwork, collaboration, and cooperation.
5) Through the successful completion of these goals, lifelong learning, self-esteem, and resiliency in students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members will be cultivated.

Mission Statement

The mission of Ashland High School is to foster a learning community that will inspire academic excellence, promote individual achievement, value diversity, create community, and encourage respect and responsibility in students, staff, parents, and community.

History

AHS opened in 1890.

The Quad

The quad is the center of school-hour social activity for the AHS student body. It is comprised of cement, bricks, and an assortment of interesting geometric shapes upon which students socialize under several deciduous and evergreen trees.

Some notable features of the quad are as follows:

The Giant Sequoia: On the northwest side of the quad is a tall giant sequoia tree. There have been many successful and unsuccessful attempts by students both at climbing it and at approximating its height by triangulation (a traditional endeaver of geometry classes).

The Bell Tower: On the AHS quad is located a red bell tower. The centerpiece was donated by the class of 2003. To some, the tower resembles a giant phallus, and on-campus attitudes toward the tower vary considerably.

The Moon: In front of one particular shape on the quad, the half "Moon," students may entertain themselves with a special echo spot. When one makes sound in the spot, one can hear a reverberant effect on their voice heard nowhere else on the quad.

Social Group Spacial Movement: Different social groups tend to gather in specific locations on the quad. Over time, however, such locations change and groups will relocate. The most notable changes occure at the beggining of each school year in August or September.

External Link

Ashland High School Website Some of the students in the class of 2004 would joke about removing the Bell Tower (located on the quad) as their senior present.