Oak Harbor High School
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| Oak Harbor High School(Washington) | |
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| No. 1 Wildcat Way (Previously 950 NW 2nd Ave.) Oak Harbor, Washington, USA |
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| School district | Oak Harbor School District |
| Principal | Dwight Lundstrom |
| Students | 1,800 (2006) |
| Type | Public High School |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Athletics conference | WESCO 3A/4A (North Division) |
| Mascot | Wildcats |
| Color(s) | Purple and Gold
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| Established | 1906 |
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, Nicole MacTavish and Bill Weinsheimer are the current Associate Principals.
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[edit] 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 Fleet. 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 North Whidbey Junior High, and then North Whidbey Middle School) contained the high school program until June of 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 acre 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.
OHHS Today: The school is at the end of its planned life, meaning that the infrastructure – plumbing, heating and air, electrical components, and roof – are all worn out or outdated to the point of being costly. In addition, the school is not well-suited for modern technology and undersized for the number of students (classrooms are too few and too small, hallways are too narrow[citation needed]).
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 38,000 square feet would be added, for a total of 240,000 square feet. Modernization is projected to cost $74 million, of which $20 million would come from state matching funds.
[edit] School information
The current high school facility, constructed during the 1970s, rests on 47 acres in northwest Oak Harbor. The school has five separate wings:
[edit] A-Wing
- Administrative Offices
- Counseling Center
- Library/Media Center
- Computer Lab
- Parker Hall (Commons)
- DECA Store
Departments:
- English
- Social Studies
- Foreign Language
- Performing Arts
- Special Education
[edit] B-Wing
Departments:
- Math
- Science
- Special Education
[edit] C-Wing
Departments:
- Art
- Business
- Special Education
[edit] D-Wing
Departments:
- Culinary Arts
- Industrial Technology
- Special Education
[edit] Gym & Field House
Departments:
- Physical Education / Health
- NJROTC
[edit] Academics
Oak Harbor High School offers Advanced Placement courses in Art, 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.
[edit] Cable Channel
Available to most Comcast Cable subscribers on Whidbey Island, Wildcat TV (Channel 21) is Oak Harbor High School’s student-run cable 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.
[edit] Sports and Athletics
OHHS is a member of the Western Interscholastic Conference, and plays within the North Division. It is classified by the Washington Interscholastic Association as '4A', the classification of the state's largest schools by student population.
[edit] Football
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, the school's first State title in any sport.
[edit] 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 OOOH!"
- "HEY OOOH!"
[edit] 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 !
[edit] 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;
- There's where the oak trees crown the hill,
- kissed by the golden evening sun;
- There stands our noble Alma Mater,
- There stands Oak Harbor High.
[edit] Wildcat Memorial Stadium
A new stadium to replace the aged Memorial Stadium was constructed in 2007 on the OHHS campus. The new stadium, dubbed "Wildcat Memorial Stadium", had it's Grand Opening on September 7, 2007. 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 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.
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