Silver Creek High School (Longmont, Colorado)

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name = Silver Creek High School


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district = Saint Vrain Valley School District
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colors = maroon and silver color box|marooncolor box|silver
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location = 4901 Nelson Road, Longmont, Colorado
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Silver Creek High School is a school located in Longmont, Colorado. Silver Creek's mascot is the raptor. The school is part of the [http://www.stvrain.k12.co.us/district/ Saint Vrain Valley School District] . Silver Creek also is the host building for Universal High School. Silver Creek is one of the newest high schools in the Longmont area.

Classes

A wide range of classes are offered at Silver Creek. Standard "Core Classes" such as Math, English, Science, and Social Studies are taught at the school, as well as a small range of electives. Students can study many topics including cooking, music, art, literature, philosophy, and several other subjects. Silver Creek offers only French and Spanish as foreign languages, but may offer Mandarin Chinese as an online class during the 2007-2008 school year. If students want to take other languages they may take them at other schools and get credit for those classes at Silver Creek.

Extracurricular activities

Silver Creek offers a very wide range of extracurricular activities including orchestra ,band, choir, newspaper, and a wide range of sports.On May 10th, 2008, the Silver Creek/Niwot Swim and Dive team won the conference championship, ending Thompson Valley's 7 year reign.

chool colors and mascot

The official colors of Silver Creek are maroon and silver. The mascot is a raptor, which is often depicted as an owl.

tabbing Incident

The high school received a swarm of media coverage after a freshman male student stabbed a sophomore female student seven times with scissors, (non-fatally) on January 31, 2008 in the upper D hallway.cite web | title = Silver Creek student stabbed seven times | url = http://www.timescall.com/Local-Story.asp?ID=6262 | publisher = Longmont Daily Times Call]

References

External links

[http://schs.stvrain.k12.co.us/ Silver Creek High School website]

[http://www.timescall.com/ Silver Creek High School news from the Longmont Times-Call]