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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's music festival, and also has gone on several European tours. Darin Faul is the current director of the 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 festival in New york in 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2008; they placed 3rd in the competition in 2005 and received an honorable mention in 2002. The Jazz band has also gone on several European tours. The top jazz choir, Dynamics, was a recent 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. Thomas Sullivan is the director of the choirs. The MTHS orchestra, directed by Jennifer Schillen, has also been recognized with annual trips to Gresham, OR and many other places. |
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's music festival, and also has gone on several European tours. Darin Faul is the current director of the 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 festival in New york in 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2008; they placed 3rd in the competition in 2005 and received an honorable mention in 2002. The Jazz band has also gone on several European tours. The top jazz choir, Dynamics, was a recent 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. Thomas Sullivan is the director of the choirs. The MTHS orchestra, directed by Jennifer Schillen, has also been recognized with annual trips to Gresham, OR and many other places. |
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A notable alumnus is fiddler Mark O'Connor, who has talked about how there was virtually no music program when he attended the school.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://markoconnor.com/index.php?page=bio&family=mark&category=01--Diaries__&display=1615&from=12}}</ref> |
A notable alumnus is fiddler Mark O'Connor, who has talked about how there was virtually no music program when he attended the school.<ref>{{cite web|title=Diaries:Mountlake Terrace High School graduate of 1979|author=Mark O'Connor|url=http://markoconnor.com/index.php?page=bio&family=mark&category=01--Diaries__&display=1615&from=12}}</ref> |
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| Coordinates | 47°48′06″N 122°17′17″W / 47.80167°N 122.28806°W |
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| Type | Public Secondary School |
| Motto | "To be, not to seem." |
| Established | 1961 (Rebuilt 1991) |
| School district | Edmonds School District #15 |
| Principal | Greg Schwab |
| Grades | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Enrollment | 1,600[1] |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Silver Red Black White |
| Mascot | Hawk |
| Website | http://www.edmonds.wednet.edu/mths/ |
Mountlake Terrace High School is one of the five high schools in the Edmonds School District. It is located in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. The school serves about 1,600 students in grades 9 through 12.[1] The current Principal is Greg Schwab, aided by Assistant Principals Erin Murphy and Scott Morrison.[2] The school's official mascot is Herky the Hawk. The colors are grey, white, black, and red.
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. To comply, in September 2003 the school reorganized under five "small schools," each with a different emphasis: the Terrace Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Discovery School, the Innovation School, the Renaissance School and the Achievement, Opportunitiy and Scholarship School. The school received a $833,000 grant in return for their participation. The effort had been met with mixed reactions.[3] Students were to stay in a school until their Junior year, or file a petition with an Administrator to transfer. Due to funding issues, the small schools program has been discontinued as of the 2008-2009 school year.
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 501 c3, not-for-profit 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. 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.
The school is also known for its high-performing student newspaper (the Hawkeye) and its jazz band, the latter of which traveled to New York in 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2008 and placed third in the Essentially Ellington competition.[4]
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's music festival, and also has gone on several European tours. Darin Faul is the current director of the 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 festival in New york in 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2008; they placed 3rd in the competition in 2005 and received an honorable mention in 2002. The Jazz band has also gone on several European tours. The top jazz choir, Dynamics, was a recent 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. Thomas Sullivan is the director of the choirs. The MTHS orchestra, directed by Jennifer Schillen, has also been recognized with annual trips to Gresham, OR and many other places.
A notable alumnus is fiddler Mark O'Connor, who has talked about how there was virtually no music program when he attended the school.[5]
Football team
Mountlake Terrace High School's athletics have not been very successful in recent years. 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.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b Edmonds School District
- ^ MTHS web site
- ^ Bob Geballe. "Bill Gates' Guinea Pigs". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved 2006-11-02.
- ^ de Barros, Paul (2005-05-16). "Local school bands swing, nearly sweep competition". Seattle Times.
- ^ Mark O'Connor. "Diaries:Mountlake Terrace High School graduate of 1979".
- ^ Debbie Bennet. "Mountlake Terrace Hawks Football".