Salem High School (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
| Salem High School | |
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| Address | |
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1993 SunDevil Drive Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464 United States |
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| Coordinates | 36°47′0.8″N 76°8′38.2″W / 36.783556°N 76.143944°WCoordinates: 36°47′0.8″N 76°8′38.2″W / 36.783556°N 76.143944°W |
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| School type | Public, high school |
| Motto | SUPERBIA ET EXCELLENTIA (Pride and Excellence) |
| Founded | 1989 |
| School district | Virginia Beach City Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Dr. Aaron C. Spence |
| Principal | Mr. Matthew Delaney |
| Staff | 133 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment |
1,798 (2013-14 Bayside High SchoolKellam High School Landstown High School) |
| Language | English |
| Color(s) | Scarlet, Black, Silver, and White |
| Athletics conference |
Virginia High School League Beach District Eastern Region |
| Mascot | Sundevils |
| Website | Official site |
1,798 (2013-14
Salem High School is a secondary school located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
The school has a Visual and Performing Arts Academy; one of eight magnet programs in Virginia Beach. Students throughout the city interested in these arts can apply. The class of 2008 is the first graduating class to include students from the academy.
Salem High School, located at 1993 Sundevil Dr (numbered in honor of the class of 1993), is built on a 50-acre (200,000 m2) site acquired by the School Board in 1985. Construction of the 258,862-square-foot (24,049.1 m2) building began in July 1987. The school which contains 85 classrooms, an auditorium, a large lecture hall, a large gym, and two auxiliary gyms, opened on September 5, 1989, to a capacity enrollment of just over 2,000 students. A student committee selected the name, SunDevils, to represent Salem High School in the spring of 1989. The school colors are scarlet, black, silver, and white. A life-sized school mascot was unveiled during the 1991-1992 school year; "Sunny the SunDevil" (identical to the Tasmanian Devil from Warner Bros. Looney Tunes) is depicted on school sweatshirts and athletic programs. The Visual and Performing Arts Academy (VPAA) became an integral part of Salem High School in 2004. The student body had one of the largest number of Filipino-Americans in the city.
The Visual and Performing Arts Academy at Salem High School (VPAA) consists of five strands: music (both vocal and instrumental), dance, theatre, and visual arts (photography, painting, drawing, etc.). While students typically select one strand as their concentration, they are also encouraged to explore areas outside their selected strand; all seniors participate in an inter-disciplinary final project.
Curricula includes instruction in performance, exhibition, theory, and history of the arts. Independent seminars and performances are also offered throughout the year.
Admission to the program is based on several criteria: an audition/portfolio evaluation, recommendations by core subject teachers as well as previous teachers in the arts, achievement as evidenced by honors or awards in the arts, and participation in extracurricular and community activities.
The Academy Coordinator is Mr. Christopher Buhner
The Salem High School Chorus department is recognized as being among the finest in the city of Virginia Beach, and the choirs have received national recognition for their outstanding performances. Choirs from Salem have performed in the White House and National Cathedral (Washington, DC), Carnegie Hall (New York, NY), Walt Disney World (Orlando, FL), Universal Studios (Orlando, FL), Cardiff Cathedral (Cardiff, Wales, UK), and Westminster Abbey (London, England, UK). In addition, they have performed multiple times at the Virginia Music Educators Association annual in-service conference and the Southern Division convention of the Music Educators National Conference, and have been the featured ensemble at the Sweet Adelines International Mid-Winter convention. They have sung in a private performance for actor/singer Jimmy Dean and commissioned works from renowned composer Daniel E. Gawthrop. They have performed in concert with the Old Dominion University Concert Choir, the Christopher Newport University Choir, the Greensboro College Concert Choir, and the Virginia Commonwealth University "Commonwealth Singers." In recent years, they have been honored to work with such outstanding choral musicians as: Weston Noble, Eph Ely, Rodney Eichenberger, Jing Ling-Tam, Kevin Fenton, William Powell, Deen Entsminger, Rebecca Reames, and the world-famous ensemble, "Chanticleer."
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