Standley Lake High School

Standley Lake High School
Location
9300 West 104th Avenue,
Westminster CO 80021
United States
Coordinates 39°53′02″N 105°06′00″W / 39.884°N 105.1°W / 39.884; -105.1Coordinates: 39°53′02″N 105°06′00″W / 39.884°N 105.1°W / 39.884; -105.1
Information
Type Public secondary school
Established 1988
School district Jefferson County School District R-1
Principal Jeff Pierson
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 1330[1]
Color(s)             
Blue, green and white
Athletics 4A[1]
Athletics conference Jefferson County
Mascot Gators
Newspaper The Lake
Alumni
Information 303-982-3311
Website Standley Lake High School

Standley Lake High School is a public secondary school operated by Jefferson County School District R-1 in Westminster, Colorado, United States. The school is located near 104th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard and is named for nearby Standley Lake. The high school opened in 1988 and a new addition to the southeast corner was opened in 2002. This school has been an I.B. (International Baccalaureate) school since 2012.


Area rivalries include Pomona High School and Ralston Valley High School in Arvada and Broomfield High School in Broomfield. The school's male athletic teams include baseball, basketball, football, swimming/diving, cross country, soccer, golf, wrestling, hockey, track, and tennis. Female athletic teams include basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, and volleyball.

In 2007, after the shootings at Virginia Tech, students at Standley Lake founded an event called Day Without Hate.[2] They asked their classmates to wear white in order to show a commitment and trust in each other to make their school a safer place. The day was an overwhelming success. Since then, over 100,000 students across Colorado and the United States take part in Day Without Hate to show that they will not tolerate violence or hate, and they will reach out to friends and acquaintances and say, "We're all in this together."

In 2013, PeaceJam, a non-profit organization that connects students with Nobel Peace Laureates, awarded Standley Lake its annual Global Call to Action Hero Award for the school's efforts around Day Without Hate. Nobel Laureate Betty Williams visited the school to give the prize to the students.[3][4]

The school is recognized for its award-winning extra-curricular programs. The FCCLA has earned the school accolades at the state and national level.[5] The school's newsmagazine, The Lake, has won numerous state and national awards from the Colorado High School Press Association and the National Scholastic Press Association. [6][7]

The school has a long running annual German exchange program where German students stay with American families for one month in May and American students stay with the German families for one month typically in June or July. This program is one of the oldest continuously functioning high school level German exchange programs in the state of Colorado. For more than twenty years the program's partner town was Deggendorf, Bavaria, however it is now Murnau, Bavaria.

The school made national headlines on January 27, 2014, after a 16-year-old student, Vincent Nett, set himself on fire in the cafeteria in an apparent suicide attempt, according to police. Nett initially survived the attempt, but suffered burns on 80 percent of his body, 40 percent of which were third degree. He died of his injuries around 5:00 PM on Sunday, February 9, 2014 at an area hospital (many patients with such extensive burns, even in good contemporary care, ultimately do not survive due to shock, electrolyte imbalances and dehydration, and serious infection, or sepsis).[8][9][10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Colorado High School Activities Association. Profile for Standley Lake High School Archived 2007-03-02 at the Wayback Machine.. Accessed 8 November 2010.
  2. ↑ http://www.daywithouthate.org
  3. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/a-day-without-hate-standley-lake-high-school_n_4256617.html
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-09-17.
  5. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Standley-Lake-High-School-FCCLA/282631708591496
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2014-09-17.
  7. ↑ thelakenewsmag.com
  8. ↑ "Teen Sets Himself on Fire in Suburban Denver High School". Thomson/Reuters. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  9. ↑ http://news.msn.com/us/colorado-police-student-who-set-himself-on-fire-dies
  10. ↑ http://www.denverpost.com/ci_25102297/colo-police-student-who-set-himself-fire-dies?IADID=Search-www.denverpost.com-www.denverpost.com
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