Humboldt High School (Iowa)

Humboldt High School is a public, co-educational high school of Humboldt Community School District, and serves grades nine through twelve. Humboldt High School is in Humboldt, Iowa. Humboldt High's mascot is the Wildcat, and the school uses the colors royal blue and yellow. On the back of the mascots jersey it says "wekinwin" representing Humboldt's decidation to sports.

Academics

Humboldt High School has about a 17:1 student / teacher ratio. There are about 471 students enrolled in Humboldt High, where there are 28 full-time teachers. [ [http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/ia/other/771#teachers Student Teacher Ratio Humboldt High School - Humboldt, Iowa - IA ] ] Humboldt High's students took the Iowa Tests for Educational Development (ITED). The 11th graders had 84% at or above proficient in reading, and 88% proficient in math, with a state average of 78% for both subjects. [ [http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/achievement/ia/771 Humboldt High School Test Scores - Humboldt, Iowa - IA ] ] Students that score above 40% are considered proficient on this standardized test, which is used to compare Humboldt students to their national classmates.Humboldt Media Center receives approximately $4,000 annually to improve and update the reading material. There are 48 computers available for student access. The media specialist is Susan Tomlinson. ["High School Directory." [http://www.humboldt.k12.ia.us/documents/High_School_Directory.pdf Page.] Retrieved on August 16 2008.]

Physics, chemistry, and astronomy teacher Daniel Holste won the Air Force Association's Fort Dodge Chapter Teacher of the year for 2006-2007. He was also awarded with the State AFA Teacher of the Year award. He was selected due to his combination of outstanding teaching ability, hands-on teaching approach, and promoting aerospace education in his classes. Winning at the state level, he received a $1,000 check, personalized jacket, certificate and a Civil Air Patrol Aerospace Education membership. ["Humboldt teacher honored for his work." [http://www.messengernews.net/Lifestyle/articles.asp?articleID=12375 Article.] The Fort Dodge Messenger. 9/9/2007. Retrieved on Jan 4 2007] Holste announced at the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year his intentions to retire from teaching, effective at the end of the year. ["Daniel Holste." [http://www.zoominfo.com/search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=781931780 Web Profile.] Zoom Info. Retrieved on 4 Jan 2007. ]

Auditorium

R. Wesley Carlson auditorium is in the west portion of the school, and is used for school events such as musicals, plays, and band and chorus concerts. The annual 5th grade operetta is also performed at the auditorium. Carlson, for whom the auditorium was named, was a superintendent at Humboldt from 1970-1989 and the auditorium was dedicated in his honor June 19, 1989. Carlson was a president of the IASA from 1976-1977 also. [ [http://www.sai-iowa.org/1000Report.html October 2000 SAI Report ] ] There is seating for 450 attendees. Fact|date=April 2007

In School Programs

PRIDE (Promoting Responsibility, Integrity, Determination, and Excellence) was established to give students a time for reading, as some students may not read outside of school. Students read for 20 minutes on Monday through Thursdays, and Fridays are left for bonding activities with PRIDE instructors.In order to receive funding from the state, Humboldt High School has adopted a wellness policy, which impacts the students' health everyday at lunch. Students are encouraged to bring healthy snacks as an alternative, and the school's lunch program no longer offers unhealthy snacks. Humboldt High School has adopted a cell phone policy as of 2006-2007. The policy was set in place to stop cell phones from disrupting classes.

Activities

Humboldt High School offers many opportunities through athletic and co-curricular activities.

Athletic

Humboldt High offers many athletics a student can be involved in. Some include volleyball, American football, girls and boys cross country, girls and boys basketball, wrestling, girls and boys track & field, soccer, girls and boys golf, baseball, and softball . [ [http://www.humboldt.k12.ia.us/en//activities/ Activities ] ] Humboldt Football was 12-1 in 2006, and won a Class 3A State Championship. In the Championship, played in the UNI-Dome, the Wildcats defeated Clear Lake High School 27-9. Jordan Smith, the Cats leading rusher, had 223 rushing yards in the win, a championship game record. Smith received $1,000 for college for his efforts. Senior linebacker and future University of Iowa football player Tyler Nielsen had 6.5 tackles as well. During the 2006 softball campaign, the team held an undefeated 18-0 record in their conference, led by then-junior pitcher Katie Tecklenburg.Fact|date=April 2007

Co-curricular

Humboldt High also offers many co-curricular activities to their students. [ [http://www.humboldt.k12.ia.us/en//activities/ Activities ] ] Some of these are vocal and instrumental music, musicals, KMO, Quiz Bowl, JETS, Science Bowl, and FFA. The instrumental music program at Humboldt High School is led by Ben Harper, and the vocal music program is led by Michael Blair. Musicals are directed by Judy Konecne. Susan Tomlinson coaches KMO and Quiz Bowl, where JETS (Junior Engineering Technical Society) is coached by Daniel Holste. ["2006 TEAMS Statistics." [http://www.jets.org/TEAMS/archives/stateRankings06.cfm?printPage=1 JETS-TEAMS.org] TEAMS Local Competition Site. Retrieved on 4 Jan 2007] Tom Johnson, also an assistant football coach, is the FFA Advisor.

Humboldt High School annually presents a musical each fall. Recent productions have been "The Wizard of Oz", "Copacabana", "State Fair", and "Babes In Arms", all under the direction of Judy Konecne. There are also spring plays annually, recently "The Games People Play", "Get Smart", and "Hercules". The current production in the works is Up the Down Staircase, which will be opening March 28. These are also under the direction of Judy Konecne.

The latest musical was on November 1, 2, and 3, 2007, "Babes in Arms."

Fight song

Humboldt High's fight song is the same as the University of Illinois fight song, Illinois Loyalty, with some minor changes.

Lyrics

:We're loyal to you Humboldt High:For your gold and your blue Humboldt High:We'll back you to stand:You're the best in the land:For we know you are grand, Humboldt High:Rah! Rah!:So smash out that ball, Humboldt High:We're backing you all Humboldt High:Our team is the fame protector,:On team, for we expect a victory from you Humboldt High.

Famous alumni

*Bruce Reimers [http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=REIMEBRU01] , an offensive lineman for the Cincinnati Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1984–1993. ["Bruce Reimers." [http://www.databasefootball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=REIMEBRU01 Regular Season Stats.] databasefootball.com.]

*Frank Gotch, a wrestler who went 154-6 in his wrestling career, winning the world heavyweight championship in 1908. [ [http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/other/titles.htm Wrestling Information Archive - The Three Wrestling Titles That Started It All ] ]

* Jon Porter, member of the United States House of Representatives in Nevada.

References

External links

* [http://www.humboldt.k12.ia.us/documents/High_School_Directory.pdf Staff]