Sitka High School

Sitka High School
A picture from the Sitka High School parking lot
Location
Sitka, Alaska U.S.
Information
Type	Public secondary
Established	1940s
Principal	Lyle Sparrowgrove
Grades	9–12
Number of students	400
Campus	Open
Mascot	Wolves
Website	School website

Sitka High School (abbreviated SHS) is the principal high school for the Southeast Alaskan community of Sitka and the Sitka School District.

The school's student body is primarily composed of Caucasians, Alaskan Natives, and Asian-Pacific Islanders.

Three Advanced Placement courses are offered: AP Statistics, AP Calculus, and AP Human Geography.

Lyle Sparrowgrove is the current principal and Sondra Lundvick is the current vice principal.

Sitka High School's sports teams are known as the Sitka Wolves with female teams sometimes known as the Lady Wolves. All teams compete at the 3A level of interscholastic competition in Alaska (as dictated by the Alaska School Activities Association), the second highest level of competition available in the state for schools with an enrollment less than 400.

SHS's traditionally most successful sports are softball, baseball, swimming, and wrestling, with the former two claiming state championships in the 2004-2005 school year and with baseball and swimming claiming championships in the 2005-2006 school year. In the 2006-2007 school year, boys' swimming claimed another state championship and the Wolves baseball three-peated, winning their state for the third time in a row. In the past three years Sitka High School has won the Region V 4A Wrestling championships twice.

SHS is also renowned for its competitive drama, debate, and forensics (DDF) team, which has multiple state championships under its belt, including a forensics state championship in 2005-2006, 2008–2009, and 2009–2010 and its music program and jazz band, which has taken awards at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and Columbia Basin Jazz Festival.