Sitka High School
Sitka High School (abbreviated SHS) is the principle high school for the Southeast Alaskan community of Sitka and the Sitka School District.
The school's student body is primarily [Caucasian race|Caucausion]], Alaskan Native, and Asian-Pacific Islander.
Academics
The high school science program is supported by the Sitka Charitable Trust while the math program uses the Core-Plus math curriculum which is lesser-used math curriculum among high schools.
Three Advanced Placement courses are offered: A/P Statistics, A/P Calculus, and A/P Human Geography.
Howard Wayne is the current principal and Joe Robidou is the current vice principal.
Extra-curriculars
Sitka High School's sports teams are known as the Sitka Wolves with female teams sometimes known as the Lady Wolves with all teams competing at the 4A level of interscholastic competition in Alaska (as dictated by the Alaska School Activities Association), the highest level of competition available in the state — for schools with an enrollment greater than 400. In the spring of 2006 the School School Board narrowly voted down (3-2) a proposal to move Sitka High School down to a 3A level for all interscholastic activities. SHS's traditionally most successful sports are softball, baseball, swimming, and wrestling with the former two claiming state championships in the 2004-2005 school year and with baseball and swimming claming championships in the 2005-2006 school year. SHS is also renowned for its competitive drama, debate, forensics (DDF) team, which has multiple state championships under its belt including a forensics state championship in 2005-2006, and its music program and jazz band, which has taken awards at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and Columbia Basin Jazz Festival.
The Sitka High School Auditorium is currently under construction in the rear parking lot of SHS and aims to be completed in the spring of 2007.
Sitka High's traditional rivals consist of the boarding school Mt. Edgecumbe High School which is also located in Sitka (across the O'Connell Bridge on Japonski Island), and its 4A southeast rivals Juneau-Douglas High School and Ketchikan High School.
As of 2006, the school has an enrollment of just over 400 students making it the third largest high school per enrollment in Southeast Alaska behind Ketchikan High School and Juneau-Douglas High School, the 21st largest in Alaska, and the smallest of the 21 4A classified schools in the state.