Mountlake Terrace High School

Mountlake Terrace High School
Location
Mountlake Terrace, Washington
United States
Coordinates 47°48′06″N 122°17′17″W / 47.80167°N 122.28806°W / 47.80167; -122.28806Coordinates: 47°48′06″N 122°17′17″W / 47.80167°N 122.28806°W / 47.80167; -122.28806
Information
Type Public Secondary School
Motto

"To be, Not to seem"

"Prepare to prepare" ~ David Reynolds
Established 1960 (rebuilt in 1991, minor renovations in 2012)
School district Edmonds School District #15
Principal Greg Schellenberg
Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
Enrollment 1,400 (approx., as of 2012)[1]
Campus size Large
Campus type Suburban
Color(s) Silver, scarlet, black, white
                
Mascot Herkey the Hawk
Rival Lynnwood High School
Edmonds Woodway High School
Newspaper The Hawkeye
Website Mountlake Terrace High School / Overview

Mountlake Terrace High School is a public high school located in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. It is the third largest high school in the Edmonds School District. Mountlake Terrace HS participates in the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, recently reclassifying from 3A to 2A at the start of 2016-2017 school year.

Academics

STEM Education

The school is a registered Project Lead the Way magnet school. Project Lead The Way is a national program that aims to educate middle and high schoolers in STEM curriculum.[2] The school offers engineering and robotics classes that offer college and university level credit if an AP exam is taken. Approximately 100 students are enrolled in the program. The school offers college-level engineering classes that offer college credit through the local Edmonds Community College's College in the High School program. The school also offers several Advanced Placement classes.

"Small Schools" Initiative

In September 2003 the school reorganized under five "small schools,"[3] each with a specific emphasis: the Terrace Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Discovery School, the Innovation School, the Renaissance School and the Achievement, Opportunity and Scholarship School. The school received a $833,000 grant in return for their participation.[4] The effort had been met with mixed reactions.[5] Students were to stay in a school until their junior year, or to file a petition with a school administrator to transfer between programs. The "small schools" program ended in 2008, after which MTHS returned to a traditional high school format.

Activities

ASB

Mountlake Terrace has an active ASB that organizes and promotes events relating to the school. Executive ASB, known as "The Big 6", consists of the President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Public Relations, and Historian. The Big 6 is a group of executive officers who runs events such as fundraisers and school dances. Class ASB is for the promoting and supporting each individual class (Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors) with fundraisers that help raise money.

Theater department

The Mountlake Terrace Theatre Company is one of the top high school theater groups in the United States. The school's theatre sports team has won the Hogan Cup competition at the Market Place Theatre at Pike Place Market twice.

Music program

Mountlake Terrace High School is known for its music program. There are two concert bands and two jazz bands, as well as a percussion ensemble, three choirs, and two orchestras. The upper-level concert band, known as Chamber Winds, is a regular attendee at music festivals such as the University of Washington Music Festival and the Central Washington University's music festival. They also toured Europe in 2008. The school's upper jazz band, Jazz 1, has attended Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival and Competition in New York in 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012,2017 and 2018; they placed third in the competition in 2005 and in 2011. They also received an honorable mention in 2002.[6] The jazz band has gone on several European tours. The top jazz choir, Dynamics, was a winner of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Idaho, 2007, the third win in a row for the choir. Mountlake Terrace has an all girls audition choir, Accents, as well as having a non-audition, all girls Chamber Choir. The MTHS orchestra has been to Gresham, Oregon, and other places.

Athletics

Mountlake Terrace High School's athletics department offers programs for the 2017-2018 year:[7]
Boys football, girls volleyball, boys tennis, cross country, girls soccer, girls swimming, boys basketball, girls basketball, boys swimming, wrestling, track and field, soccer, girls tennis, boys baseball, girls Fastpitch softball, golf (boys and girls).

The 2005 football team had the best record in twenty years for the school, with a 5-5 record. The 2005 team had four players move onto Junior College at Ventura Community College. In 2008 the team amounted a 4-6 record, concluding with a victory over Monroe High School. In 2009 the team went 6-4 and made it to the playoffs for the first time in school history.[8]

The school's fight song is to the tune of The Victors, the fight song of the University of Michigan. The chorus is as follows:
Hail to the Hawks so valiant
Hail to the conquering heroes
Hail to the Terrace Hawks
The leaders of the West.

Mountlake Terrace won the state 4A Boys soccer title in the 1974/1975 season defeating Newport High School (Bellevue) 3-2 in the championship game.

Mountlake Terrace won the state AAA basketball title in 1976/77 season defeating Richland High School in the state championship game with a season record of 27-1.

In 2010, the Mountlake Terrace baseball team won the 4A District 1 Championship by defeating the Kamiak Knights 4-3 at Everett Memorial Stadium. The Hawks finished that season 18-7 with several players going on to play at the next level. Most notably Andrew Woeck (NC State), Brandon Choate (University of Washington), and Aaron Brooks (Edmonds Community College). Brooks went on to be drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 25th Rd of the 2012 MLB Draft. In 2018, the Mountlake Terrace baseball team defeated the Anacortes Seahawks 4-3 to clinch their first state appearance since 2014. The Hawks later went on to defeat the Port Angeles Roughriders 5-2 and the Highline Pirates 3-0 in regionals to reach the state semifinals in Yakima for the first time in school history. The Hawks would go on to defeat the West Valley Eagles in the semifinals to advance to the 2A State Championship. They would go on to lose to the defending champion Ellensburg Bulldogs 2-1 in the Championship and finish 2nd in the State. The Hawks baseball team were also named 2A Academic State Champions in 2018, making it the first time a Mountlake Terrace HS team had won that award.

Notable alumni

History and facilities

The existing school is a replacement facility constructed in 1991[13] and designed by Bassetti Architects.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Edmonds School District
  2. ↑ PLTW, retrieved online 2011-05-16
  3. ↑ Small Schools Project, retrieved online 2011-05-16
  4. ↑ Seattle Times article, 2005-02-16, retrieved online 2011-05-16
  5. ↑ Bob Geballe. "Bill Gates' Guinea Pigs". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved 2006-11-02.
  6. ↑ de Barros, Paul (2005-05-16). "Local school bands swing, nearly sweep competition". Seattle Times.
  7. ↑ School website, accessed online 2011-05-16 Archived 2011-09-28 at Archive.is
  8. ↑ Debbie Bennet. "Mountlake Terrace Hawks Football".
  9. ↑ Mark O'Connor. "Diaries:Mountlake Terrace High School graduate of 1979".
  10. ↑ "Alumni Update: Ariana DeBoo". The Hawkeye. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "Devante Downs - 2017 Football Roster - California Golden Bears". University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  12. ↑ Lee, Josh (April 24, 2018). "SF's sinatraa on playing Saebyeolbe, why Fortnite's so popular, and his CS:GO idol Stewie2k". Blitz Esports. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  13. ↑ New High School Goes Green, 2009-06-25, retrieved online 2011-05-16
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