Mountlake Terrace High School
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Mountlake Terrace, Washington United States |
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| Coordinates | 47°48′06″N 122°17′17″W / 47.80167°N 122.28806°WCoordinates: 47°48′06″N 122°17′17″W / 47.80167°N 122.28806°W |
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| Type | Public Secondary School |
| Motto | "Peace, love, unity, respect ." |
| Established | 1960 (rebuilt in 1991, minor renovations in 2012) |
| School district | Edmonds School District #15 |
| Principal | Greg Schwab |
| Grades | 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Enrollment | 1,400 (approx., as of 2012) |
| Campus size | Large |
| Campus type | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Silver, scarlet, black, white |
| Mascot | Herkey the Hawk |
| 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.
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. 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.
In September 2003 the school reorganized under five "small schools," 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. The effort had been met with mixed reactions. 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.
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.
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, and are slated to attend the 2017 competition; they placed third in the competition in 2005 and in 2011. They also received an honorable mention in 2002. 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.
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