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Everett High School's "A Building"

Everett High School is a secondary school located in Everett, Washington which educates grades 9 through 12. The school enrolls approximately 1,700 students annually, more than triple the state and district average; Cascade and Mariner high schools, also in Everett, have still-higher enrollments. [1]

The school colors of Everett High School are blue and gold. The school mascot is Sammy the Seagull. As of 2006, the school principal is Catherine Matthews.

Geography

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 and south through the campus.

Layout

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 an enormous 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

In order to graduate, 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. 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

Everett High School has one of the largest band programs in the area, with over 150 students. Teacher Gary Evans also runs an exceptionally large jazz orchestra, with over 50 students participating. The pep band plays at all home varsity football games, and many varsity home basketball games. The band is unusual in that it does not focus on marching, but rather spirited pep performances. Until the cancelation of the Salty Sea Days parade through Everett, the band marched in the parade and also at the homecoming football game every year. Now it only marches at the homecoming game.

The 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 bands workings.

Running Start

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

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,three members of that team went on to compete at the NCAA level for that sport.For the first time in decades, the football team competed in the State Tournament in 2005. The men's swim team also had a very successful season, with five athletes competing at the state level, as did the girls' soccer team after winning more games than they had won in over five years.

2005-2006 School Year

After the 2004-05 school year, principal Pat Sullivan left the school, to be replaced by Catherine Matthews, the former principal of Lakewood High School, near Arlington.

Attendance Policy

After having taken office, changed the attendance policy and introduced a form of "Saturday School" known locally as "Wednesday School" for students in violation of attendance policy according to district's policies.

Along with the Wednesday School program goes quite strict enforcement of attendance. The administration requires that students traveling about the campus on legitimate business during class carry bright yellow 6x8 inch acrylic glass sheets labeled with room numbers as hall passes, and also sign out of class when leaving, and in when returning.

Until the 2005-2006 school year, upperclassmen were allowed to leave campus for lunch. However, a new policy was instituted a new rule which requires that upperclassmen must have parent permission in order to leave campus. A sticker is then placed on a student's ID card in order to show administrators that the student is indeed authorized to leave.

Prior to the arrival of Matthews to the administration, students in their Culminating Exhibition classes were allowed to leave in order to work on their senior projects, which are conducted entirely outside of school. These projects often require only very little classroom time and are primarily done outside of school. The policy was changed such that students must stay in their classrooms regardless of whether they have work to do or not.

Kodak

The Kodak, the school's newspaper has often had altercations with the administration over issues of censorship. Catherine Matthews, during her administration, began requiring prior review of the Kodak by the administration, which the Editors in Chief, Claire Lueneberg and Sarah Eccleston, took as an attempt at censorship. In protest, the editors published a one page paper with an article explaining why Matthews hadn't the right to censor the paper. The front page showed the two editors with their mouthes gagged. Also, the paper had on the reverse side a picture of the two editors with their hands bound behind their backs. The matter was brought before the school board, who decided that Matthews had the right to review the paper before publication. The editors have filed a lawsuit, which will go to federal court later this year.[1]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ Seattle Times, 21 Jan 2007, B1
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