Oak Harbor High School
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For the high school in Ohio, see Oak Harbor High School (Ohio)
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Oak Harbor High School (OHHS) is a public grade 9–12 high school that is located in Oak Harbor, Washington
on Whidbey Island
. The school is in the Oak Harbor School District
#201. Dwight Lundstrom is the current Principal, Bill Weinsheimer and Rae Wood are the current Associate Principals.
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In 1911 a new school was built on property donated by Will Izett, where until 2006 the old Memorial Stadium stood. The high school students used the basement and lower floor and the elementary grades were housed on the top floor. Only the basement of this building remains and is now used to house maintenance services.
In 1934 with the aid of WPA
labor, a school was built to house secondary students. This brick building (still in use as the North wing of Oak Harbor Elementary School) was a great source of pride to the community and housed high school students until 1956.
In 1956 another new high school was completed and initially contained 330 students in grades 9-12 and an eighteen member staff. This building (which later was used as Oak Harbor Junior High School, and then North Whidbey Middle School) contained the high school program until June 1974 at which time the enrollment was 975 students in grades 10-12. (This building was demolished in 2006.)
In 1968 planning for the current high school began. It was to be located on a 45 acres (182,108.7 m²) site near 800 Avenue West (now called NW Second Avenue) and Heller Road. It was built to house 1200 students initially and meant to be expandable to accommodate an enrollment of 1800 student grades 10–12. The facility was built with a brick exterior, steel frame throughout except for the field house dome which consists of laminated wood beams and a wood roof deck. This facility was completed in 1975 and total construction costs were $4,111,071.09. In 1991, the school was expanded to include ninth grade, reaching a capacity of 1,700 students.
By 2006 the school was at the end of its planned life, meaning that the infrastructure – plumbing, and roof – were considered worn out or outdated to the point of being costly. In addition, the school is was not well-suited for modern technology and undersized for the number of students (classrooms were too few and too small, hallways too narrow).
On May 16, 2006, voters approved a plan to completely modernize the high school. Construction will be phased in with completion expected by September 2010. The six buildings that make up the campus will be consolidated into one or two buildings. Approximately 38000 square feet (3,530.3 m²) would be added, for a total of 240000 square feet (22,296.7 m²). Modernization is projected to cost $74 million, of which $20 million would come from state matching funds.
Departments:
, Calculus
, Statistics
, US History
, Government
, Biology
, Economics
, Spanish
, Literature and Composition
, Language and Composition
and Chemistry
.
Foreign languages available for students to take are French
, Spanish
, and Japanese
. For those students whose first language is not English, ESL
classes are offered.
Cable subscribers on Whidbey Island, Wildcat TV (Channel 21) is Oak Harbor High School’s student-run Public-access television
cable TV channel. Operational since 2005 it features a variety of programs ranging in topic from the Island County Fair to Drama Club theatrical performances. Students in Chris Douthit’s Monster Media and Broadcast Communications classes create content for the channel.
OHHS is a member of the Western Interscholastic Conference, and plays within the 3A division.
at a cost of $8.3 million. The new facility has a covered main grandstand with 2,500 home seats, and a smaller covered grandstand with 500 visitor seats. The playing field is a FieldTurf surface and is encircled by a new track and field oval. The stadium also includes locker rooms, bathrooms, a concession area, and storage space.
The entrance to the stadium is graced with a memorial to veterans of the 5 branches of the military. The main spire is a pentangle, with the seals of the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard mounted on each of the five sides. At the top, as a special tribute to the active Navy personnel stationed at NAS Whidbey, there is a ship's bell. The bell is rung on special occasions, and after every Wildcat touchdown. The memorial was designed by Carlos Sierra of Sierra-Martin Architects.
The Dream Season Team Key Player List:
John Irvin - Brent Matson - Ken Parker - Mike Maletich - Tim Zumwalt - Loni Kyser - Neal Parker - Brad Yates - Bruce Bull - Ozell Jackson - Rod Sullivan - Les Boon - Ron Durant - Rex Bebee - Steve Eidsmoe
The Oak Harbor High School football team, under the direction of head football coach Dave Ward, made it to state in the 2006 season. Playing in the Tacoma Dome
, the Wildcats defeated Bothell High School
21-14 to win the Washington Class 4A State Championship.
Glory and pride of every heart.
Loyal forever doubt us never
Alma mater hail hail hail!
Oak Harbor High School (Ohio)
-About:Oak Harbor High School is a public high school located in Oak Harbor, Ohio on State Route 163. It is the only high school in the Benton-Carroll-Salem Schools district. Their mascot is the Rockets, and their school colors are red and green. Presently, Keith Thorbahn serves as the principal...
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Oak Harbor High School (OHHS) is a public grade 9–12 high school that is located in Oak Harbor, Washington
Oak Harbor, Washington
Oak Harbor is a city located on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington. The population was 22,075 at the 2010 census.Oak Harbor was incorporated on May 14, 1915.-History:Oak Harbor is Whidbey Island's largest incorporated city...
on Whidbey Island
Whidbey Island
Whidbey Island is one of nine islands located in Island County, Washington, in the United States. Whidbey is located about north of Seattle, and lies between the Olympic Peninsula and the I-5 corridor of western Washington...
. The school is in the Oak Harbor School District
Oak Harbor School District
Oak Harbor School District 201 is located on the north end of Whidbey Island, serving the town of Oak Harbor and surrounding area in Washington State.-Elementary:*Broadview Elementary*Crescent Harbor Elementary*Hillcrest Elementary*Oak Harbor Elementary...
#201. Dwight Lundstrom is the current Principal, Bill Weinsheimer and Rae Wood are the current Associate Principals.
History
Oak Harbor's first high school was housed in a building on the waterfront, where the upstairs was used both as a school room and as a community hall for various social functions. In the lower storey, hay and freight were stored as they came off the steamers of the Puget Sound Mosquito FleetPuget Sound Mosquito Fleet
The Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet was a large number of private transportation companies running smaller passenger and freight boats on Puget Sound and nearby waterways and rivers. This large group of steamers and sternwheelers plied the waters of Puget Sound, stopping at every waterfront dock...
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In 1911 a new school was built on property donated by Will Izett, where until 2006 the old Memorial Stadium stood. The high school students used the basement and lower floor and the elementary grades were housed on the top floor. Only the basement of this building remains and is now used to house maintenance services.
In 1934 with the aid of WPA
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects...
labor, a school was built to house secondary students. This brick building (still in use as the North wing of Oak Harbor Elementary School) was a great source of pride to the community and housed high school students until 1956.
In 1956 another new high school was completed and initially contained 330 students in grades 9-12 and an eighteen member staff. This building (which later was used as Oak Harbor Junior High School, and then North Whidbey Middle School) contained the high school program until June 1974 at which time the enrollment was 975 students in grades 10-12. (This building was demolished in 2006.)
In 1968 planning for the current high school began. It was to be located on a 45 acres (182,108.7 m²) site near 800 Avenue West (now called NW Second Avenue) and Heller Road. It was built to house 1200 students initially and meant to be expandable to accommodate an enrollment of 1800 student grades 10–12. The facility was built with a brick exterior, steel frame throughout except for the field house dome which consists of laminated wood beams and a wood roof deck. This facility was completed in 1975 and total construction costs were $4,111,071.09. In 1991, the school was expanded to include ninth grade, reaching a capacity of 1,700 students.
By 2006 the school was at the end of its planned life, meaning that the infrastructure – plumbing, and roof – were considered worn out or outdated to the point of being costly. In addition, the school is was not well-suited for modern technology and undersized for the number of students (classrooms were too few and too small, hallways too narrow).
On May 16, 2006, voters approved a plan to completely modernize the high school. Construction will be phased in with completion expected by September 2010. The six buildings that make up the campus will be consolidated into one or two buildings. Approximately 38000 square feet (3,530.3 m²) would be added, for a total of 240000 square feet (22,296.7 m²). Modernization is projected to cost $74 million, of which $20 million would come from state matching funds.
School information
The current high school facility, initially constructed during the 1970s, rests on 47 acres (190,202.4 m²) in northwest Oak Harbor. The school was remodeled, with the addition of the Student Union Building and the Career & Tech building opening in 2009. Currently, the school is finished with construction as of the 2010-2011 school year. In 2008, "North Campus" was opened in the old Clover Valley Elementary school. Students in grades 9 and 10 had their core classes at North Campus, and were then bussed back to the main campus for lunch, electives, and lab sciences.A-Wing
- Administrative Offices
- Counciling/Career Center
- Library/Media Center
- Computer Lab
Departments:
- English
- Social Studies
- Special Education
Career & Tech Building (CAT)
Departments:- Art
- Pottery
- CAD
- Metal Design
- Video Productions
- Photography
- Graphics Design
Student Union Building (SUB)
Departments:- DECA
- Leadership
- Drama
- Cafeteria
- Band/Choir
- Health
Academics
Oak Harbor High School offers Advanced Placement courses in ArtAP Studio Art
AP Studio Art is a series of Advanced Placement Courses divided into three different categories: AP Studio Art Drawing, AP Studio Art 2D, and AP Studio Art 3D.-The portfolio:...
, Calculus
AP Calculus
Advanced 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....
, Statistics
AP Statistics
Advanced Placement Statistics is a college-level high school statistics course offered in the United States through the College Board's Advanced Placement program...
, US History
AP United States History
Advanced Placement United States History is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program...
, Government
AP United States Government and Politics
Advanced 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...
, Biology
AP Biology
In 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....
, Economics
AP Economics
Advanced Placement Economics consists of two, separate examinations that are offered as part of the College Board's Advanced Placement Program.*AP Macroeconomics*AP Microeconomics...
, Spanish
AP Spanish Language
Advanced Placement Spanish Language is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program.-The course:...
, Literature and Composition
AP English Literature and Composition
Advanced 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...
, Language and Composition
AP English Language and Composition
Advanced Placement English Language and Composition is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program....
and Chemistry
AP Chemistry
Advanced Placement Chemistry is a course and examination offered by the College Board as a part of the Advanced Placement Program to give American and Canadian high school students the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities and earn college-level credit.-The course:AP Chemistry is a course...
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Foreign languages available for students to take are French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, and Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
. For those students whose first language is not English, ESL
English language learning and teaching
English as a second language , English for speakers of other languages and English as a foreign language all refer to the use or study of English by speakers with different native languages. The precise usage, including the different use of the terms ESL and ESOL in different countries, is...
classes are offered.
Cable Channel
Available to most ComcastComcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
Cable subscribers on Whidbey Island, Wildcat TV (Channel 21) is Oak Harbor High School’s student-run Public-access television
Public-access television
Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...
cable TV channel. Operational since 2005 it features a variety of programs ranging in topic from the Island County Fair to Drama Club theatrical performances. Students in Chris Douthit’s Monster Media and Broadcast Communications classes create content for the channel.
Sports
Wildcat Memorial Stadium
A new stadium to replace the aged Memorial Stadium was constructed in 2007 on the west end of the OHHS campus. The new stadium, dubbed "Wildcat Memorial Stadium", had its grand opening on September 7, 2007, eight months after construction began in January. The Wildcat Memorial Stadium was built by Ebenal General Contractors of BellinghamBellingham, Washington
Bellingham is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Whatcom County in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the twelfth-largest city in the state. Situated on Bellingham Bay, Bellingham is protected by Lummi Island, Portage Island, and the Lummi Peninsula, and opens onto the Strait of Georgia...
at a cost of $8.3 million. The new facility has a covered main grandstand with 2,500 home seats, and a smaller covered grandstand with 500 visitor seats. The playing field is a FieldTurf surface and is encircled by a new track and field oval. The stadium also includes locker rooms, bathrooms, a concession area, and storage space.
The entrance to the stadium is graced with a memorial to veterans of the 5 branches of the military. The main spire is a pentangle, with the seals of the Navy, Army, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard mounted on each of the five sides. At the top, as a special tribute to the active Navy personnel stationed at NAS Whidbey, there is a ship's bell. The bell is rung on special occasions, and after every Wildcat touchdown. The memorial was designed by Carlos Sierra of Sierra-Martin Architects.
Football
Oak Harbor High School football is encapsuled by the 1977-78 Wildcat 'Dream Season' success during the first year in the WESCO Conference. The Dream Season team consisted of only 26 players and thrived under the direction of the imfamous Coach "Duck" Daugherty. The team was considered the "Hicks from the Sticks" at the time by the Northern Seattle schools. It was expected that the new school to the conference, from Whidbey Island, would be substancially trounced in every game during the season. During the season, the team became the Cinderella Story, Shutting out 5 teams, winning 8 of 9 games, and ending the season ranked 4th in the state. Their only loss to the state champions. If you knew the players and the bond they shared since Junior High, you would know they knew no limits.The Dream Season Team Key Player List:
John Irvin - Brent Matson - Ken Parker - Mike Maletich - Tim Zumwalt - Loni Kyser - Neal Parker - Brad Yates - Bruce Bull - Ozell Jackson - Rod Sullivan - Les Boon - Ron Durant - Rex Bebee - Steve Eidsmoe
The Oak Harbor High School football team, under the direction of head football coach Dave Ward, made it to state in the 2006 season. Playing in the Tacoma Dome
Tacoma Dome
The Tacoma Dome is an indoor arena located in Tacoma, Washington, USA, approximately 30 miles south of Seattle.-History:...
, the Wildcats defeated Bothell High School
Bothell High School
Bothell Senior High School is located in Bothell, Washington and is one of three high schools in the Northshore School District. Nearly 1,800 students in grades 10 through 12 attend Bothell High.-Demographics:...
21-14 to win the Washington Class 4A State Championship.
Fight song
- Fight, Fight, Fight for Oak Harbor High
- Win that Vic-tor-y
- We’re gonna win that game for purple & gold
- Best in the west
- So we’ll all do our best, so
- On, On, On, On, fight to the end
- Honor and glory we must win.
- So, fight, fight, fight for Oak Harbor High & Victory
- W-I-L-D-C-A-T-S
- Wildcats!
- So Fight, Fight, Fight for Oak Harbor High & Vic-tor-y
- F-I-G-H-T !
Oak Harbor High School Alma Mater
- Close by the shores of old Pacific,
- where ocean waves roll high and free;
- Nestled above our peaceful harbor,
- guarded by snow-crowned majesty;
- Purple and gold we rise to honor
Glory and pride of every heart.
Loyal forever doubt us never
Alma mater hail hail hail!
The Super Fan "Hey Oh" Cheer
- Can I get a "Hey Oh!"
- "Hey Oh"
- Let me hear that "Hey OOOooh!"
- "Hey OOOooh!"
- Where is my "hey OOOH!"
- "hey OOOH!"
- Give me that "Hey ooOOH!"
- "Hey ooOOH!"
- "HEY OOH!"
- "HEY OOOH!"