Analy High School
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Analy High School (ˈænəli) is a public high school
located in Sebastopol, California
, U.S.A.
in Sonoma County
. Analy was established in 1908 and celebrated its centennial in May 2008. In 2011, the school was listed at #184 on Newsweek
's list of "America's Best High Schools." Analy was the only school in the Redwood Empire listed in the top 500, and ranked 20th overall out of all California private and public high schools.
Although the town's population is small, the school serves an area of 50,000. The town it serves has changed from a rural community to a more suburban community in recent decades; many residents commute to metropolitan areas. Approximately 85% go directly to two or four-year colleges; the school ranks in the 98th percentile on sending students to two or four-year public schools.
Analy is one of two comprehensive high schools in the West Sonoma County Union High School District. The other being El Molino High School
in Forestville, California
.
Analy has a seven-period day and offers a wide variety of electives, including 11 programs in practical arts. Analy provides an almost entirely untracked curriculum for all students and a full range of AP and Honors classes in the five academic areas.
Students at Analy participate actively, as seen from subsequent sections on athletics, the performing arts, and debate. In addition, there are thirteen clubs with a total membership of over 600 students. 30% of the student population is involved in the band, choir, or theater departments.
Laboratory science
Mathematics
English language
Foreign language
Social studies
, which can be taken during the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. Santa Rosa Junior College
courses may also be taken in lieu of Analy courses, with 1 SRJC unit equalling 3⅓ Analy credits toward graduation.
report on America's Best High Schools found that Analy holds a 99% graduation rate, a 95% college matriculation rate, a 38.1 student teacher ratio, an average 1743 SAT Reasoning Test score (roughly the 75th percentile), and an average of 1.3 Advanced Placement tests per student.
, volleyball
, cross country
, soccer, softball
, baseball
, swimming
, tennis
, golf
, track and field
, wrestling
, and badminton
.
The Analy High School football team was mentioned by Bruce Campbell
's character, Sam Axe
in Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
. He stated that the tactics he used to train the rebels were the secrets of the Analy High School football team.
game, take a trip to southern California to participate in the Disney Magic Music Days
main street parade, and march in the local Apple Blossom Festival Parade. The honor band has received numerous awards and has participated in several Festival of Gold National competitions. The Analy bands are well known for masterful performances and exquisite class.
In addition, once a week, the orchestra winds and percussion meet at 6:00pm and adjourn at 7:30pm for rehearsal. The band has won numerous awards for their jazz, concert and orchestra programs. The jazz band and orchestra annually participate in the California Music Educators Association festivals and competitions. In 2011, the Analy orchestra was given a unanimous superior at a California Music Educators Association festival at Sonoma State University
, the highest rating possible; it was the second consecutive year that the orchestra earned this honor.
During the 2009/10 school year, the Analy High School Honor Choir was selected by DCINY to sing the entire piece of Faure's Requiem Mass at the Lincoln Center in New York City. The concert was set to take place in April, 2010, and was to be sung under the directing of Daniel Hughes. However, a call was received in mid-October saying the show was cancelled. Another show was set up at Carnegie Hall during the same time period, and the choir will sing songs directed by famous and contemporary composer Eric Whitacre. The students have been diligently fundraising, and are visibly excited by the opportunity presented. It will be the first such cross country trip encountered by the Analy Honor Choir.
department headed by teacher/director Starr Hergenrather, produces two shows per year, a non-musical in the fall, and a musical in the spring. The department annually attends the Lenaea Festival, a high-school theatre event held on the California State University, Sacramento
campus.
Asterisk denotes student production.
Additionally, a select group of students from the instrumental music program at Analy are selected to play in the pit orchestra for the musical performances.
Analy's team is a member of the Golden Gate Speech Association league, the California High School Speech Association
(CHSSA), and the National Forensic League.
In addition to competing in local league tournaments and national invitationals, team members speak at local service club organizations such as Lion's Club and Rotary Club, where they earn hundreds of dollars every year in scholarship money.
Analy speakers place in the finals at nearly every league tournament, often going undefeated. The league is ranked #1 in the state and is among the top ten in the nation.
Analy's debate coach, Lynette Williamson, was named the Golden Gate Speech Association's Coach of the Year in 2000, and in 2005 she was inducted into the California High School Speech Coaches' Hall of Fame.
four times: in 1986, 1994, 1999, and 2009.
Newsweek
ranked Analy #184 on their list of the top 500 high schools in the country for 2011.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in Sebastopol, California
Sebastopol, California
Sebastopol is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, approximately north of San Francisco. The population was 7,379 at the 2010 census, but its businesses also serve surrounding rural portions of Sonoma County, totaling about 50,000 people...
, U.S.A.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in Sonoma County
Sonoma County, California
Sonoma County, located on the northern coast of the U.S. state of California, is the largest and northernmost of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties. Its population at the 2010 census was 483,878. Its largest city and county seat is Santa Rosa....
. Analy was established in 1908 and celebrated its centennial in May 2008. In 2011, the school was listed at #184 on Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
's list of "America's Best High Schools." Analy was the only school in the Redwood Empire listed in the top 500, and ranked 20th overall out of all California private and public high schools.
History
Analy was established in the town of Sebastopol in the year 1908, where it would stand as the towns local school. It is primarily a college preparatory school. Many local parents are graduates from Analy. The community supports the school; in 2004 they passed a $13,000,000 bond issue, and in 2006 they renewed a four-year parcel tax for another seven years.Although the town's population is small, the school serves an area of 50,000. The town it serves has changed from a rural community to a more suburban community in recent decades; many residents commute to metropolitan areas. Approximately 85% go directly to two or four-year colleges; the school ranks in the 98th percentile on sending students to two or four-year public schools.
Analy is one of two comprehensive high schools in the West Sonoma County Union High School District. The other being El Molino High School
El Molino High School
El Molino High School is a four-year comprehensive high school located at 7050 Covey Road in Forestville, California.El Molino High School serves the West Sonoma County Union High School District. Its enrollment during the 2007-08 school year was 937 students. Doria Trombetta is the principal,...
in Forestville, California
Forestville, California
Forestville is a census-designated place in Sonoma County, California, United States. The town came into existence during the late 1860s and was originally named Forrestville, after one its founders, but the spelling long ago became standardized with one "r". The population was 3,293 at the 2010...
.
Curriculum
The high school district has 11 feeder elementary districts. Over the last three years these districts together have developed grade level standards K-12 in English, math and social studies, and work continues in technology and science.Analy has a seven-period day and offers a wide variety of electives, including 11 programs in practical arts. Analy provides an almost entirely untracked curriculum for all students and a full range of AP and Honors classes in the five academic areas.
Students at Analy participate actively, as seen from subsequent sections on athletics, the performing arts, and debate. In addition, there are thirteen clubs with a total membership of over 600 students. 30% of the student population is involved in the band, choir, or theater departments.
AP and Honors courses
Analy offers a total of 11 AP courses and 5 additional honors courses.Laboratory science
- AP BiologyAP BiologyIn the United States, Advanced Placement Biology , is a course and examination offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn placement credit for a college-level biology course....
- AP Physics BAP Physics BAP Physics B is an Advanced Placement science course that is divided into nine different sections: Newtonian Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Physics, Waves and Optics, and Atomic and Nuclear Physics. The course is equivalent to a one-year college course that...
- AP Physics CAP Physics CPart of the College Board's Advanced Placement Program, consisting of two separate courses:*AP Physics C: Mechanics*AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism...
- Chemistry Honors
Mathematics
- AP Calculus ABAP CalculusAdvanced Placement Calculus is used to indicate one of two distinct Advanced Placement courses and examinations offered by the College Board, AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC....
- AP StatisticsAP StatisticsAdvanced Placement Statistics is a college-level high school statistics course offered in the United States through the College Board's Advanced Placement program...
- Trigonometry/Pre-Calculus Honors
English language
- AP English Language and CompositionAP English Language and CompositionAdvanced Placement English Language and Composition is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program....
- AP English Literature and CompositionAP English Literature and CompositionAdvanced Placement English Literature and Composition is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program.-The Course:This course is designated for motivated students with a command of standard English, an...
- English 11 Honors
Foreign language
- Spanish 4 Honors
- French 4 Honors
Social studies
- AP World HistoryAP World HistoryAdvanced Placement World History is a college-level course offered through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program designed to help students develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts and interactions between different types of Human societies...
(for 10th grade) - AP U.S. HistoryAP United States HistoryAdvanced Placement United States History is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program...
(for 11th grade) - AP U.S. Government and PoliticsAP United States Government and PoliticsAdvanced Placement United States Government and Politics, also known as AP US Gov & Pol, AP US Gov, AP Go Po or AP Gov, is a college-level course and examination offered to high school students through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program...
(for 12th grade, one semester) - AP MicroeconomicsAP MicroeconomicsAdvanced Placement Microeconomics is a course for students interested in college-level work in microeconomics and/or gaining advanced standing in college. The course begins with a study of fundamental economic concepts such as scarcity, opportunity costs, production possibilities, specialization,...
(for 12th grade, one semester)
Graduation requirements
A minimum of 240 semester units are required for graduation from Analy High School. Ten units equal one year of work for each period. In order to graduate, students must also pass the CAHSEECalifornia High School Exit Exam
The California High School Exit Exam is a requirement for high school graduation in the state of California, created by the California Department of Education to improve the academic performance of California high school students, and especially of high school graduates, in the areas of reading,...
, which can be taken during the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. Santa Rosa Junior College
Santa Rosa Junior College
Santa Rosa Junior College is a community college located in the city of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California. Founded in 1918, it is the tenth oldest community college in the state. Santa Rosa Junior College was modeled as a "junior" version of nearby University of California at Berkeley...
courses may also be taken in lieu of Analy courses, with 1 SRJC unit equalling 3⅓ Analy credits toward graduation.
| Subject | Units |
|---|---|
| English | 40 |
| Social studies | 40 |
| Science | 20 |
| Mathematics | 20 |
| 20 | |
| Fine art | 10 |
| Practical art | 10 |
| Electives | 70 |
Demographics
Analy High School served 1,305 students in the 2010-2011 academic year. Its population is 88.3% Caucasian, 7% Latino. 3.1% are Limited English Proficient. Less than 8% are on free or reduced lunch. 9% are in Special Education programs. Analy provides a support class and a Spanish-speaking aide for Latino students and their families. The 2011 NewsweekNewsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
report on America's Best High Schools found that Analy holds a 99% graduation rate, a 95% college matriculation rate, a 38.1 student teacher ratio, an average 1743 SAT Reasoning Test score (roughly the 75th percentile), and an average of 1.3 Advanced Placement tests per student.
Notable alumni
- Willard F. Libby, creator of radiocarbon datingRadiocarbon datingRadiocarbon dating is a radiometric dating method that uses the naturally occurring radioisotope carbon-14 to estimate the age of carbon-bearing materials up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years. Raw, i.e. uncalibrated, radiocarbon ages are usually reported in radiocarbon years "Before Present" ,...
and NobelNobel Prize in ChemistryThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
laureate graduated from Analy High School. - Jerry GarciaJerry GarciaJerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
, founding member of the band The Grateful Dead - Karen ValentineKaren ValentineKaren Valentine is an American actress best-known for her role as the idealistic schoolteacher "Alice Johnson" in the television series Room 222.-Early life:...
, Emmy award winning actress - Matt NixMatt NixMatthew E. "Matt" Nix is an American writer, producer, and director. He is best known for creating the USA Network television series Burn Notice and the now defunct cult favorite Fox series The Good Guys.-Biography:...
, creator of popular television shows Burn NoticeBurn Notice (TV series)Burn Notice is an American television series created by Matt Nix. The show stars Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless, and, beginning in the fourth season, Coby Bell. The series premiered on June 28, 2007, on USA Network. On April 15, 2010, the show was renewed for its...
and The Good GuysThe Good Guys (2010 TV series)The Good Guys is an American action-comedy series about an old-school cop and a modern-day detective that premiered with a preview episode on Fox on May 19, 2010, and began airing regularly on June 7...
. - Schuyler GrantSchuyler GrantSchuyler Grant is an American actress best known for supporting roles in television, including the popular Anne of Green Gables mini-series.-Family ties:...
, actress known for her role as Diana Barry in the popular Anne of Green GablesAnne of Green Gables (1985 film)Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Israel, Europe and Japan.The film aired on...
series - Greyson GunheimGreyson GunheimGreyson Gregory Gunheim is a free agent American football defensive end who last played for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was signed by the Raiders as an undrafted free agent in 2008...
, professional football player with the Oakland RaidersOakland RaidersThe Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
. - Steve Pifer, former United States Ambassador to UkraineUnited States Ambassador to UkraineThe history of Ambassadors of the United States to Ukraine began in 1992.Until 1991 the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic had been a constituent SSR of the Soviet Union. Upon the breakup of the USSR, the parliament of Ukraine declared the nation’s independence on August 24, 1991...
- Jim Thornton, professional football player with the Chicago BearsChicago BearsThe Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
. - John Hanes, Grammy AwardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
winning music engineer - Chris Catterton, First Student to qualify and clear at the Tournament of Champions in LD debate. Perennial Winner.
Athletics
Analy has over 600 athletes on 38 teams in 21 sports each year. In 2009, the varsity boys basketball team at Analy won the NCS Division III Final for the first time in the school's 101 year history. Other sports offered by Analy include footballAmerican football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, soccer, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
, and badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
.
The Analy High School football team was mentioned by Bruce Campbell
Bruce Campbell
Bruce Lorne Campbell is an American film and television actor. As a cult movie actor, Campbell starred as Ashley J. "Ash" Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series of films and he has starred in many low-budget cult films such as Crimewave, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho-tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown:...
's character, Sam Axe
Sam Axe
Commander Samuel "Sam" Axe, USN is a fictional character in the television series Burn Notice and TV movie Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe, played by Bruce Campbell. He is the best friend of Michael Westen, the main character in Burn Notice.-Overview:Sam served several years as a U.S...
in Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe is a 2011 American television special based on the USA Network television series Burn Notice. It was the first official Burn Notice spin-off, and was directed by Jeffrey Donovan. The show was broadcast in the United States on April 17, 2011, on the U.S. television...
. He stated that the tactics he used to train the rebels were the secrets of the Analy High School football team.
Band
Analy is musically active. There are a total of four band classes and one orchestra class at Analy, with an average combined student participation of well over 200 and has one of the highest instrumental music students per-capita ratios in the State of California. The bands include a 0 period jazz band that starts at 6:45am every morning, an intermediate band, advanced band, and honor band, as well as an orchestra, which are all under the direction of Vance Regan. The bands perform in two scheduled concerts per year and host the annual Band Wagon Fall Festival. The bands annually perform the national anthem at a San Francisco GiantsSan Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
game, take a trip to southern California to participate in the Disney Magic Music Days
Magic Music Days
Magic Music Days is a program put on by the Disneyland Resort, the Walt Disney World Resort, the Disneyland Resort Paris and the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort. It brings in school and community groups to perform in the parks and/or take part in workshops or clinics...
main street parade, and march in the local Apple Blossom Festival Parade. The honor band has received numerous awards and has participated in several Festival of Gold National competitions. The Analy bands are well known for masterful performances and exquisite class.
In addition, once a week, the orchestra winds and percussion meet at 6:00pm and adjourn at 7:30pm for rehearsal. The band has won numerous awards for their jazz, concert and orchestra programs. The jazz band and orchestra annually participate in the California Music Educators Association festivals and competitions. In 2011, the Analy orchestra was given a unanimous superior at a California Music Educators Association festival at Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University is a public, coeducational business and liberal arts college affiliated with the California State University system. The main campus is located in Rohnert Park, California, United States and lies approximately south of Santa Rosa and north of San Francisco...
, the highest rating possible; it was the second consecutive year that the orchestra earned this honor.
Choir
Analy's choir department performs three concerts each year. The first concert is performed in the fall, the second in the winter, and the third in the spring. The choir department is divided into different choirs, which perform music at differing styles and levels of complexity.- Concert Choir: This is the beginning level choir, and it has no prerequisite to join. The concert choir primarily consists of freshmen and sophomores, though it is not limited to younger students.
- Treble Choir: This is an all female chorus. It is the second level for female singers, and students are required to audition before joining the treble choir.
- Honor Choir: This is the advanced mixed-voice chorus. It is also an audition-only choir, and usually consists of singers who have graduated from the concert or treble choirs. The group is not limited though, and singers with potential are encouraged to audition even without experience in the previous two choirs.
- Vocal Ensemble: The Vocal Ensemble is not an actual course. It is a small group (usually consisting of 8-12 singers) that rehearses outside of class hours, usually once a week. This group often tackles music that is considered more challenging, both in technical and vocal facets, also consisting wholly of songs that are performed a cappellaA cappellaA cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
. Auditions for the group are held early in the year, and are limited to students in the Honor Choir. The Vocal Ensemble is a relatively new facet of the Choir Department, which witnessed its creation in 2002.
During the 2009/10 school year, the Analy High School Honor Choir was selected by DCINY to sing the entire piece of Faure's Requiem Mass at the Lincoln Center in New York City. The concert was set to take place in April, 2010, and was to be sung under the directing of Daniel Hughes. However, a call was received in mid-October saying the show was cancelled. Another show was set up at Carnegie Hall during the same time period, and the choir will sing songs directed by famous and contemporary composer Eric Whitacre. The students have been diligently fundraising, and are visibly excited by the opportunity presented. It will be the first such cross country trip encountered by the Analy Honor Choir.
- Each winter, the Honor Choir has traditionally performed the Hallelujah Chorus, from Handel's Messiah as the last song of the evening. Alumni of the honor choir are invited to join the chorus onstage to perform with the choir.
- Every spring, several graduating seniors are selected to direct a song each. They are given their choice of songs and rehearse with their choir, as conductor, in place of Mr. Del Monte. Eventually they conduct their piece on the night of the Spring Concert.
- On Graduation Day, at the end of each school year, the Honor Choir performs a song for the graduating seniors.
Drama
The DramaDrama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
department headed by teacher/director Starr Hergenrather, produces two shows per year, a non-musical in the fall, and a musical in the spring. The department annually attends the Lenaea Festival, a high-school theatre event held on the California State University, Sacramento
California State University, Sacramento
California State University, Sacramento, popularly known as Sacramento State, is a public university located in the city of Sacramento, California. It is part of the California State University system...
campus.
Recent shows
- FameFame (musical)A stage musical based on the 1980 musical film Fame has been staged under two titles. The first, 'Fame – The Musical' conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami,...
(2000) - 42nd Street42nd Street (musical)42nd Street is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production, directed by an ailing Gower Champion and orchestrated by Philip J. Lang, won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit...
(2001) - You Can't Take It With YouYou Can't Take It with YouYou Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...
(2001) - HairHair (musical)Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...
(2002) - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2002)*
- Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)Goodnight Desdemona is a 1988 comedic play by Ann-Marie MacDonald in which Constance Ledbelly, a young English literature professor from Queen's University, goes on a subconscious journey of self-discovery....
(2002) - For Whom the Southern Belle TollsFor Whom the Bell TollsFor Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As an expert in the use of explosives, he is assigned to blow up a...
(2003)* - The Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny OperaThe Threepenny Opera is a musical by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher. It was adapted from an 18th-century English ballad opera, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and offers a Marxist critique...
(2003) - TartuffeTartuffeTartuffe is a comedy by Molière. It is one of his most famous plays.-History:Molière wrote Tartuffe in 1664...
(2003)
- Kiss Me, KateKiss Me, KateKiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang.Kiss...
(2004) - The Breakfast ClubThe Breakfast ClubThe Breakfast Club is a 1985 American teen drama film written and directed by John Hughes. The storyline follows five teenagers as they spend a Saturday in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes.-Plot:The plot follows five students at...
(2004)* - The Laramie ProjectThe Laramie ProjectThe Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie,...
(2004) - The Pajama GameThe Pajama GameThe Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded...
(2005) - M*A*S*H (2005)
- Bye Bye Birdie (2006)
- The TempestThe TempestThe Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
(2006) - UrinetownUrinetownUrinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and municipal politics...
(2007) - LysistrataLysistrataLysistrata is one of eleven surviving plays written by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War...
(2007)
- Anything GoesAnything GoesAnything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, heavily revised by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. The story concerns madcap antics aboard an ocean liner bound from New York to London...
(2008) - The CrucibleThe CrucibleThe Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
(2008) - Beauty and the BeastBeauty and the BeastBeauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740...
(2009) - The Servant of Two Masters (2009)
- The Wedding SingerThe Wedding Singer (musical)The Wedding Singer is a musical with music by Matthew Sklar, lyrics by Chad Beguelin, and a book by Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy. It is based on the 1998 film The Wedding Singer.-Synopsis:Act 1...
(2010) - How the LoraxThe LoraxThe Lorax is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and first published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, who speaks for the trees against the greedy Once-ler. As in most Dr...
Stole HanukkahEric KimmelEric A. Kimmel is an American Jewish author of more than 50 children's books. His works include Caldecott Honor Book and Newbury Honor Book Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins , and Sydney Taylor Book Award winners The Chanukkah Guest and Gershon's Monster.Kimmel was born in Brooklyn, New York and...
(2010) - CamelotCamelot (musical)Camelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe . It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White tetralogy novel The Once and Future King....
(2011) - Dead Man WalkingDead Man Walking (play)Dead Man Walking is a 2002 play written by Tim Robbins based on Dead Man Walking, a book by Sister Helen Prejean about her experiences as a chaplain on death row...
(2011) - My Fair LadyMy Fair LadyMy Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...
(2012)
Asterisk denotes student production.
Additionally, a select group of students from the instrumental music program at Analy are selected to play in the pit orchestra for the musical performances.
Speech and Debate
Since its inception in 1995, Analy's High School's Speech and Debate Team has qualified varsity members to the state championships. It has also qualified members to many national championships for the last three years.Analy's team is a member of the Golden Gate Speech Association league, the California High School Speech Association
California High School Speech Association
The California High School Speech Association, or CHSSA, is a speech and debate organization offered to all schools in the state of California. It is the governing body for local and state speech and debate competitions in California, with higher-level competition under the auspices of the National...
(CHSSA), and the National Forensic League.
In addition to competing in local league tournaments and national invitationals, team members speak at local service club organizations such as Lion's Club and Rotary Club, where they earn hundreds of dollars every year in scholarship money.
Analy speakers place in the finals at nearly every league tournament, often going undefeated. The league is ranked #1 in the state and is among the top ten in the nation.
- In 2006, the parliamentary debateParliamentary DebateParliamentary Debate is an academic debate event. Many university level institutions in English speaking nations sponsor parliamentary debate teams, but the format is currently spreading to the high school level as well...
team of Chris Catterton and Harrison Noah placed in the top 15 teams in the nation according to the National Parliamentary Debate League. - In 2007, Chris Catterton won Top Speaker and was the Top Team at the Parliamentary Debate National Tournament. Chris earned the title of Parliamentary Debate Grand National Champion for this illustrious achievement.
- In 2008, three Varsity Parliamentary debate teams qualified to the State Debate Championships, a first in Analy history. The team of Catterton and Stafford placed fifth, the team of Burnes and Coulter placed fourth, and the team of Millerick and Noah placed third.
- In 2009, sophomore Gordon Allen competed in the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Voice of Democracy Speech Competition, advancing through league and district to place 1st in California. The organization then sent him to Washington, D.C., where he placed 11th in the nation.
- Also in 2009, Allen auto-qualified to the State Debate Championships in Lincoln-Douglas Debate, which is accomplished by having an exemplary record at the local tournaments throughout the year. Allen advanced to semifinals, placing him in the top four in the state.
- In 2010, three speakers qualified for the State Championships from Analy High School: Gordon Allen in Lincoln-Douglas DebateLincoln-Douglas debateLincoln–Douglas debate is sometimes also called values debate because it traditionally places a heavy emphasis on logic, ethical values, and philosophy...
, Nate Rosen in Impromptu SpeakingImpromptu speakingImpromptu speaking is a speech and debate consolation event that involves an eight minute speech, with up to three of these eight minutes available for use as preparation time ....
, and Ryan Taylor-Davis in Oratorical InterpretationOratorical InterpretationOratorical Interpretation is an event in American competitive high school forensics. Similar to Original Oratory, Oratorical differs in that the speeches performed must be published material, not original material. The speeches given are speeches originally delivered in a public forum...
. Allen auto-qualified to the State Championships for the second year in a row for the first time in league or Analy history. Rosen advanced to semifinals, placing 9th in the state. - Also in 2010, Allen qualified to the National Forensic LeagueNational Forensic LeagueThe National Forensic League is a non-partisan, non-profit educational honor society established to encourage and motivate American high school students to participate in and become proficient in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking and interpretation. NFL is the America's oldest and largest...
National Speech and Debate TournamentNational Speech and Debate TournamentThe National Speech and Debate Tournament is a week-long high school championship forensics competition hosted by the National Forensic League...
in Kansas City, MissouriKansas City, MissouriKansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
, among three other Lincoln-Douglas debaters from the league. At Nationals, Allen advanced to partial-quarterfinals and was ranked 7th in the nation.
Analy's debate coach, Lynette Williamson, was named the Golden Gate Speech Association's Coach of the Year in 2000, and in 2005 she was inducted into the California High School Speech Coaches' Hall of Fame.
Awards
Analy has been named a California Distinguished SchoolCalifornia Distinguished School
A California Distinguished School is an award given by the California State Board of Education to public schools within the state that best represent exemplary and quality educational programs. Approximately five percent of California schools are awarded this honor each year following a selection...
four times: in 1986, 1994, 1999, and 2009.
Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
ranked Analy #184 on their list of the top 500 high schools in the country for 2011.
External links
- Official website
- Analy Education Foundation
- Analy Band Wagon - Band & Orchestra boosters
- Analy Tiger Times--Analy's monthly student publication