Shorewood High School (Washington)

Infobox School | name = Shorewood High School


imagesize = 100px
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established = 1975
type = Public
principal = Bill Dunbar
enrollment = approximately 1,800 (in 2007)
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Mascot
free_text = Blue, Green, and White.
Thunderbird
location = 17300 Fremont Avenue North
Shoreline, WA 98133
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website = http://schools.shorelineschools.org/shorewood/

Shorewood High School is one of the two public high schools in the Shoreline School District in Shoreline, Washington. Shorewood High School is a large, single story school with open hallways and an open campus. Shorewood also has a highly recognized music department. The Shorewood Mascot is the Thunderbird, commonly called the T-Bird.

Building history

Shorewood High School, built in 1975, is a large high school that spans 5 city blocks. Shorewood has eight single floor buildings with open corridors outside.

Shorewood High School was built in sections. The 100’s building, closest to 175th, in Shorewood, was originally an elementary school built in 1906 and closed 1971ref|closedschoolsinfo. This closure was due to a failed levy that sent the Shoreline district into debt after 300 Shoreline residents and parents were laid off from Boeingref|closedschools.

Along with the Elementary School being closed, five other schools were closed, including Butler Junior High School, an older school originally built in 1953 and closed in 1973 to be rebuilt and become the main campus for the new High School named Shorewood. The Students still in 7th or 8th grade at the time of the closure were sent to either Einstein Junior High School, or Cordell Hull Junior High School, with a few going to Kellog Junior High School. ref|closedschoolsinfo. None of these schools were "middle" schools at that time. Shorewood was to be the first 4 year High School. Upon it's opening, only the 9th and 10th graders were brought in. That 10th grade class remained the eldest class at Shorewood until their graduation in the summer of 1978. It was a unique situation for that one class of students as they never had to face upper classmen. During this transition period for the district, all of the remaining Junior High Schools, became middle schools.

One unique point, many of the last class of 7th grade students to enter Butler Junior High School, were in the very first Graduating class through Shorewood High School in 1978.

Since Shorewood High school’s original completion in 1975, the school has had one renovation in 1997 costing 6.5 million dollarsref|schoolprofile. The rebuilding of Shorewood is in the planning stage, and development is expected to happen soon.

tudents

Shorewood High School has approximately 1,800 students in grades ninth through twelfth. Shorewood accepts students west of I-5, and is fed students from Einstein Middle School and local private schools. 67% of Shorewood students are white, 21% are Asian American, and 5% are African American or Latino.Fact|date=February 2007

Academics

Shorewood High School offers advanced placement (AP) classes, along with Running Start, a program that allows juniors and seniors a chance to receive high school and college credit for classes at the Shoreline Community College during the school day. Shorewood has 17 AP classes, covering 9 different subjects.With an 86% on time gradation date Shorewood academics are well above the state WASL average, scoring an 89% on reading, 91% on writing, 66% on math and 45% on science, with at least 60% of students passing the three state standards (Math, Writing and Reading) in the 2006 school yearref|schoolguidetwo.

Eight Shorewood seniors were named National Merit finalists in the 2005-2006 academic year, two were named in the 2006-2007 academic year, and seven were named in the 2007-2008 academic year. In 2006, an Intel Science Talent Search Finalist, Jolene Mork, was from Shorewood. Approximately 12% of students took one or more AP exams in 2003. On average 59% of Shorewood graduates enrolled in 4-year colleges, and 28% enrolled in 2-year colleges, based on the graduating class of 2004-2005ref|schoolguidetwo.

Fine arts

Shorewood offers a wide range of music-based classes including but not limited to: Jazz Band, Steel Drums, Stage Band, Marching Band, Aeolian Choir, Concert Choir, Men’s Chorus, Jazz Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, and Freshman Orchestra. Shorewood’s Jazz Band wins awards regularly and is highly acclaimed.Fact|date=July 2008 The orchestra program regularly wins local and state competitions, and has performed at Carnegie Hall twice since the year 2000. In 2004, the Shorewood Jazz Band won 1st place in Boston at the Berklee College of Music Jazz Festival, and in 2005, the Shorewood Jazz Band won honorable mention (fourth place) in the "Essentially Ellington" competition in New Yorkref|jazz. Also in January 2007, the Jazz Band performed at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference in New York. In 2008, the Jazz Band successfully repeated their performance at the "Essentially Ellington" competition by winning the Honorable Mention award for the second time in four years.Recently, the Shorewood High School Marching Band won second place in the KZOK Battle of the Bands competition and was awarded $5,000.

Some of the other fine arts featured at Shorewood are drama, culinary arts, photography, and other art classesref|schoolguidetwo.

Clubs

Shorewood has 35 clubs contained within its halls, each advised by a teacher who has some expertise relating to the club.

tudent media

Shorewood students participate in a variety of media projects and publications:
*"Imprints," a literary magazine of student art and writing,
*"Jesus Was A Jew," a publication put out by the school's "Tolerance Club" that encourages unity among people of different religious backgrounds.
*"Kolus," a student-run newspaper,
*"Thunderbird Radio," the Shorewood High School streaming radio station, and
*"Horizon," the annual yearbook.

Laptop program

Last year Shorewood High School received its long-awaited technology grant, given by a large bond passed by the voters in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. First piloted in the middle schools, Kellogg and Einstein, 2006-07 was the first year they were implemented for all high schoolers and middle schoolers. Students could choose to not get a Macbook. Each student was required to sign a restrictive terms of use as well as pay a $70 fee for insurance and a laptop case.

Every student received a Macbook pre-loaded with district deemed "necessary" software, including Microsoft Office and iLife. However, certain programs such as chat clients, DVD Players, and other applications and functionalities of the computer were removed for security, efficiency, and time constraints. While students were not the administrators and could only modify basic preferences (Desktop, Mouse, etc.) and could not install, download, or modify their district owned laptops, in certain cases exceptions were made for students to install specific programs for curricular use.

In the initial months of the program's first school year, many people experienced frustration with the laptops. A district wide poll later in the year indicated that while parents and students were supportive, if only lukewarm, of the technology integration program, teachers had many more reservations and qualms about the laptops. These included: web filtering, bandwidth bottlenecks, widespread gaming including flash as well as emulated console games, chatting, pornography, and countless violations of the terms of use. While the district exercised a lenient policy towards punishment, severe or obvious violations such as downloaded pornography or modification of system files often resulted in a suspension or equivalent punishment.

The school district network operates with the Websense web site filter. The filter fulfills two rolls: safeguard the internet to assauge parental fears of unsupervised school internet use, and restrict student ability to pursue non-curricular activities. Controversy arose when certain websites were found to be blocked by websense, including all personal hosting websites, websites affiliated with Sam Houston, YouTube (for bandwidth reasons), "hobbies" websites, almost all chat client websites, and proxies. In some cases, this blocking was unintentional, and performed automatically by the Websense software. Blocking policies in these instances were reviewed on a case by case basis, and changed if necessary. In other cases, such as personal websites, there is a 60 minute daily quota enforced, so that those sites are not completely blocked. In remaining instances, for websites such as Youtube, MySpace, Facebook, and other websites that are not academic related, web sites are completely blocked. The Websense filter only affects the school district network, and does not affect home networks.

As of the 2007-2008 school year, a Mac Minder restriction is initially placed on every students' computer. These restriction include a limit of three hours of internet time after school hours during the school week and a total of five hours computer time during the weekends. A few weeks into the school year, students were given the option to submit a signed parent consent form to modify or remove their laptop's restrictions, despite the fact that many students had already found out how to easily "freeze" the program, or remove it completely.

Faculty

As of 2006, there are more than 100 full and part time faculty members at Shorewood High School. Faculty have on average approximately twelve years of teaching experienceref|schoolreportcard, and 72% of faculty have graduate degreesref|schoolguide. Biology teacher Paul Witt was awarded State Biology Teacher of the year for 2004-2005.

Notable alumni

*David Bazan (1994), Songwriter
* Sig Hansen, Captain, F/V Northwestern (featured on "Deadliest Catch")ref|sighansen.
*Amy Holmes (1990), Columnist, Commentator
*Damien Jurado, Songwriter
*Garth Stein (1983), Author, film producer ref|garthstein
*Kelly Stephens (2001), Member of the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey team, 2006ref|kellystephens
*Darren Miller (1991), Former lead singer of electronic group backandtotheleft
*Dave Martin (1989), Drummer for the band Maktub
*Chris Cornell: Grunge pioneer, Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog vocalist. Also has a successful solo artist career.
*Chap Taylor: (1986) Screenwriter, Changing Lanes

References

#- [http://www.shorelineschools.org/news/dacpo/documents/Shoreline_School_History.pdf Shoreline School Closure and Opening Records] , Accessed January 20, 2007
# - [http://washington.schooltree.org/public/Shorewood-High-093493.html Shoreline District History] , Accessed January 20, 2007
# - [http://www.shorelineschools.org/schools/profiles/shorewood.php Shoreline School District Shorewood High] , Accessed January 21, 2007
# - [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/schoolguide/profile.php?results=search&building_id=3921&search=school_name&school_name=Shorewood Seattle Times school guide] , Accessed January 20th, 2007
# - [http://sw-web.shorelineschools.org/%7ebphillips/steel/index.html Bob Phillips's Home Page] , Accessed March 11, 2006.
# - [http://www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/jalc/news/050515-news.html Jazz at Lincoln Center] News release, Accessed March 11, 2006.
# - [http://www.shorelineschools.org/news/performance_reports/04-05/SW04_05.pdf School report card] Accessed March 4, 2006.
# - [http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=A4791B5D&nclm=MacBook Mac Laptop Information] , Accessed January 21, 2007
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External links

* [http://schools.shorelineschools.org/shorewood/ Shorewood High School official site]
* [http://www.shorelineschools.org Shoreline School District official site]
* [http://sw-web.shorelineschools.org/~doliveto/radio.html Thunderbird radio]
* [http://schools.shorelineschools.org/shorewood/clubs/index.php Shorewood Clubs Official Website/List]
* [http://schools.shorelineschools.org/shorewood/athletics/index.php Shorewood Athletics Official Website/List]
* [http://www.shorelineschools.org/instruction/tech/laptop_docs.php Shorline School District Laptop Initiatives]