Shaker Heights High School
Shaker Heights High School | |
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high school | |
Motto | "A community is known by the schools it keeps" |
Established | 1918 |
School district | Shaker Heights City School District |
Superintendent | David Glasner[1] |
School code | 361395 |
Principal | Eric Juli[2] |
Faculty | 109.60 (FTE)[3] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 1,498 (2022–23)[3] |
Student to teacher ratio | 13.67[3] |
Color(s) | Red White |
Song | To Shaker We Belong |
Athletics conference | Greater Cleveland Conference |
Mascot | The Raider “Tuffy” |
Team name | Raiders[4] |
Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[5] |
Newspaper | The Shakerite |
Yearbook | Gristmill |
Communities served | Shaker Heights; parts of Cleveland |
Website | www |
Shaker Heights High School is a
According to a 2004 survey by
The high school has also been recognized by
Demographics
Although the population of Shaker Heights is 55%
In addition, as a way to help narrow the
Academic program
Shaker Heights High School offers 23 Advanced Placement courses, the largest advanced Advanced Placement in Cuyahoga County.[18] In 2009, 153 students, 38% of students taking Advanced Placement exams, won Advanced Placement Awards because of high scoring on multiple exams, a record for the school.[19] The high school began offering International Baccalaureate courses in 2010 and is the only public high school in Cuyahoga County to hold this accreditation.[8] The first class of International Baccalaureate Diploma candidates graduated in 2012. The district estimates that roughly 90% of Shaker High graduates attend college. The high school ranks in the top 2% of high schools in the country by Newsweek Magazine, whose rankings are based on the number of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams taken.[20]
Shaker Heights High School sports a science wing with a roughly fifty-seat planetarium and several laboratory rooms. Sciences offered include astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, engineering applications, environmental science, oceanography, project physics and engineering, and physics.[21]
In addition to
The Asian studies class is offered in cooperation with Beachwood High School and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The program focuses on the history, literature, art, politics, and contemporary society of China, Japan, and India. Students in the class are offered an opportunity to travel to those three countries in the year they are studied.[21]
Extracurricular activities
Shaker Heights High School has a variety of extracurricular activities for languages, sports, the arts, and other areas.
Band Program
As of 2023, the marching band has more than 300 musicians, and is one of the largest student organizations in the high school, as well as the largest marching band in Ohio.[27][28] This number also includes the Raiderettes, a dance team that performs with the band.
The marching band went on a trip to
The band has band camp a week before school starts, preparing a halftime show for American football games during the fall football season.[32] After the marching band season, the school has five concert bands: one Class AA band, one Class A band, and three Class B bands. In 2013, the AA and A class bands, Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, respectively, performed at Severance Hall.[33]
Theater Program
The Shaker Theatre Arts Department was founded in its present form by former Artistic Director James Thornton, and has prepared many students for successful careers on stage and screen. Shaker Theatre Department offers a variety of classes, allowing the students to have a full view and access to the "circle" of theatre. Classes include Playwriting, Acting, the Ensemble Program, as well as the theatre management classes Theatre Production Seminar and Ensemble Coordination Management Course. The season includes the fall main stage production, the Ninth Grade Theatre Experience (written and performed by the ninth graders), New Stages (the student generated playwriting festival), and the Spring Ensemble Show (a performance consisting of movement theatre and poetry prose performed by the Senior Acting Ensemble, the Advanced Acting Ensemble and the Junior Acting Ensemble). Other Shaker Theatre Showcases include the Theatre Social, Fall Ensemble Preview, Winter Solstice Sharings, and Theatre awards. Every new Broadway season since 1991 has included one or more Shaker Theatre alum in major New York productions. In addition, Shaker Theatre alums hold positions in every area of professional theatre and the entertainment industry.[34]
Latin
Shaker Heights' Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the
The Shakerite
The school's student newspaper, The Shakerite, has won numerous awards, including the 2006 Golden Flash Award from the Northeast Ohio Scholastic Press Association and the National Pacemaker Award from the National Scholastic Press Association in 2006.[38][39] This was the second time The Shakerite received the award. In addition, the paper has received a Gold Medal Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and a First Place Award from the Great Lakes International Press Association.[40]
Student Awards
Students from Shaker Heights High School have won awards at regional, state and national levels at many academic competitions, including the
Facilities
Originally designed by the Cleveland architectural firm of
Athletics
Shaker Heights High School has teams in several sports, including baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, diving, fencing, field hockey, figure skating, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and wrestling. Shaker's neighboring sporting rivals include Cleveland Heights High School, Garfield Heights High School, Solon High School, Mentor High School, University School, and Hathaway Brown. The football stadium is named after Russell H. Rupp, who served as principal of the high school for 26 years.
Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships
- Baseball – 1965, 1976[47]
- Ice Hockey – 1981, 1993, 2001, 2013[48]
- Men's Golf – 1958, 1959, 1967[48]
- Men's Track and Field – 1926[48]
- Men's Swimming – 1954
- Wrestling – 1954[49]
- Women's Field Hockey – 1991, 2014[48]
Other State Championships
- Ice Hockey – 1971, 1972, 1974
- Fencing – 2006
- Men's tennis – 2000
- Women's lacrosse – 2001, 2003
- Chess – 1995
Notable alumni
Names are listed chronologically by class year.
- 1930 – William R. Van Aken, politician
- 1940 – Dorothy Hart, actress
- 1941 – Samuel Glazer, co-developer of Mr. Coffee[50]
- 1943 – Paul Newman, actor and race car driver[51]
- 1950 – Majel Barrett, actress[52]
- 1950 – NFLwide receiver
- 1955 – Sidney M. Wolfe, drug safety activist
- 1955 – Roger Penske, race car driver, team owner, and business entrepreneur
- 1957 – Peter Bergman, writer and comedian, member of The Firesign Theatre[53]
- 1957 – Harvey Pekar, underground comic book writer, wrote American Splendor and music critic
- 1958 – Jerry Heller, rap manager
- 1962 – Jeff Gerth, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
- 1962 – David Mark Berger, Olympic weightlifter murdered at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- 1963 – New Jersey Nets
- 1963 – Rich Stotter, football player
- 1964 – Eric Ehrmann, HuffPost columnist and former Rolling Stone feature writer from 1968-72
- 1965 – Stephen Stucker, actor
- 1967 – David Icove, FBI Academy instructor and forensic engineer
- 1969 – Lee Fisher, Ohio lieutenant governor and attorney general, and member of the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives
- 1971 – U.S. Representative
- 1971 – Cuyahoga Countycommissioner
- 1971 – Jane Campbell, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
- 1972 – stand-up comedian
- 1973 – Susan Orlean, writer
- 1974 – Wade Manning, NFL wide receiver
- 1975 – Keith Black, neurosurgeon
- 1976 – Andy Borowitz, comedian and satirist, creator of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- 1978 – John Morris Russell, renowned conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
- 1979 – Kym Whitley, actress and comedian
- 1979 – Jim Brickman, musician
- 1979 - Thomas Modly, businessman and former acting United States Secretary of the Navy
- 1981 – Michael Scharf, law professor and director of Frederick K. Cox International
- 1981 – David Pogue, technology writer, journalist and commentator
- 1983 – Marc Kamionkowski, theoretical physicist
- 1984 – Griff Allen, auto racing promoter, broadcaster, engineer
- 1984 – Michael McElroy, Tony-nominated Broadway actor
- 1984 – Gerald Levert, recording artist, member of R&B group LeVert
- 1984 – Caroline Hoxby, labor economist
- 1986 – Sean Levert, recording artist, member of R&B group LeVert
- 1987 – Rebecca Dallet, justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- 1987 – Keith Rucker, NFL defensive tackle
- 1987 – The State and member of comedy group Stella
- 1988 – Tracy Nicole Chapman, Broadway actress
- 1989 – Jamie Babbit, television and film director best known for But I'm a Cheerleader
- 1991 – Michelle Federer, Broadway actress, member of the original company of Wicked: The Musical
- 1992 – Kathryn Schulz,[54] author and journalist, winner of 2016 Pulitzer Prize
- 1993 – Carter Bays, Emmy-nominated writer for the Late Show with David Letterman and writer/producer of How I Met Your Mother
- 1995 – Scott Savol, American Idol finalist
- 1996 – Ben Simon, former Columbus Blue Jackets hockey player
- 1996 – Matt Guerrier, pitcher for the Minnesota Twins
- 1998 – Celeste Ng, author of the award-winning and best-selling novels Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere
- 1998 – Nate Clements, former NFL cornerback
- 1998 – Nate Fish, former coach for the Israel national baseball team and Israel at the World Baseball Classic[55]
- 1999 – Adrien Clarke, NFL player
- 2002 – Kid Cudi, rapper[56]
- 2007 – U.S. Representative and former aide to Donald Trump[57]
- 2008 – Wesley Lowery, Washington Post reporter
- 2008 – Machine Gun Kelly, rapper/pop punk musician
- 2012 – NBApoint guard
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