ThunderRidge High School

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motto = Right place, Right Time, Right Thing
established = 1996
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faculty = 134 "(2007)"
teaching_staff = 80 "(2006)"
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students = 1608 "(2007)"
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grades = 9-12
address = 1991 Wildcat Reserve Parkway
city = Highlands Ranch
state = Colorado
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district = Douglas County Public School District
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ThunderRidge High School is a public high school serving the ninth through twelfth grade in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. It is part of the Douglas County Public School District. It was established in 1996 and has approximately 1608 students as of November 2007 [http://www.dcsdk12.org/portal/page/portal/DCSD/Schools/High_Schools/ThunderRidge_High_School]

Curriculum

In addition to typical core courses (Math, Science, English, Social Studies) found in most high schools, TRHS offers basic, regular, Honors/Pre-AP, and Advanced Placement level courses. More than 100 electives are offered, including: Foreign Language, Art, Music, Theatre, Business, Consumer & Family Studies and Technology.

The school is adding the International Baccalaureate Program (IB) to its curriculum in 2011, and will begin to offer the IB program to students in the 2008-2009 school year. [ [http://blog.teamcoxrealtors.com/public/blog/181656 Denver Real Estate and News "Douglas County School District Adding New International Baccalaureate (IB) Program", September 01, 2007] ]

tudent support

Several academic support systems are in place at ThunderRidge, including: Academic Access, Peer Tutoring, Adult Mentor Program, Adult Tutoring and an after-school NovaNet Credit Recovery Program.

Extracurriculars

Clubs and Organizations

In addition to typical high school clubs, TRHS hosts the following organizations:

*Academic Decathlon
*Advanced Art Club
*Art/Anime
*Book Nerds
*Color Guard
*Co-Exist Club
*Competitive Speech/Debate
*Destination Imagination
*Drumline
*EPYCS (El Pomar Youth in Community Service)
*FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America)
*FCCLA (Family, Career & Community Leaders of Amer.)
*FEA (Future Educators of America)
*Game Club
*Interact/Rotary Club
*Junior ROTC
*Link Crew
*Literary Magazine Club
*Marching Band
*Math Club
*Mock Trial
*Model United Nations
*National Honor Society
*SALT (Students as Living Testimonies)
*Science Club
*Spanish National Honor Society
*Sports Medicine
*Thespian Society
*TRI-M (Music Honor Society)
*TSA (Technology Student Association)
*Unified Grizzly BB (Special Olympics)

ports

ThunderRidge High School opened in 1996 and began varsity athletic competition in the 1998-1999 school year. Since that time, the Grizzlies have won 18 state championships:

The Girls basketball team won three state championships. In 2003 both the boys and girls won the state championship at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. The basketball program has also produced multiple All-Americans: Abby Waner (Duke), Emily Waner (Duke), and Emily Fox (Minnesota). Matt Bouldin (Gonzaga) led the Grizzlies to two state championships in 2004, 2005 but never came away with the win. The boys went to the State Championship 4 straight years under Joe Ortiz 2002-2005, but only won 2002, 2003 defeating Wheat Ridge High School and Denver East, respectively.

The ThunderRidge football team has competed in 4A football until the 2007 season, but will start a 5A schedule in 2008. The team rarely misses the playoffs, and the Grizzlies went to the State Semi-Finals 5 years in a row under Coach Joe Johnson, 2001-2005 going 3-2, with a 3-0 record in state championship games. Since that time, however, the team has failed to advance past the second round of the playoff bracket. The most noteable recent seasons are 2004 when the Grizzlies went 12-2 and won the state championship. In 2005 with 19 returning starters on offense and defense the Grizzlies went 14-0 and beat Grand Junction High School at the first ever State Championship game played at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado and was named the number one team in the state. (including 2A-5A schools) The school has club sports in:

*Ice Hockey
*Inline Hockey
*Mountain Biking
*Rugby (Boys)
*Rugby (Girls)
*Ski/Snowboard

References

External links

* [http://www1.dcsdk12.org/secondary/trhs/ High School website]
* [http://www1.dcsdk12.org/ District website]
* [http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/co/564 greatschools]
* [http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/14273 Public School review]