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Ashwaubenon High School | |
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Location | |
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2391 S. Ridge Rd. , | |
Coordinates | 44°29′19″N88°4′30″W / 44.48861°N 88.07500°W |
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Type | Public secondary |
Motto | Big enough to serve you-small enough to know you [1] |
Established | 1965 |
School district | Ashwaubenon School District |
Principal | Dirk Ribbens [2] |
Teaching staff | 63.42 (FTE) [3] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 1,004 (2023–2024) [3] |
Student to teacher ratio | 15.83 [3] |
Color(s) | Green and yellow |
Athletics conference | Fox River Classic Conference |
Mascot | Jaguar |
Rival | Bay Port High School |
Yearbook | The Paw |
Website | Ashwaubenon School District |
Ashwaubenon High School is a public high school located in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, United States. A community pool and performing arts center are also housed within the school.
AHS is[ when? ] 79% white, 6% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 3% black, and 2% Asian. 6% of students identify as two or more races. [4]
Ashwaubenon High School offers Advanced Placement (AP) classes, which about a third of students take. [5]
The Ashwaubenon Jaguar football team won the WIAA Division 2 state championship in 1996, 2000, 2001, and 2006. [6]
The softball team won Division 1 state championships in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 2006. [7]
The AHS marching band performed at the 2001 Tournament of Roses Parade and the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York. [8]
A referendum-funded $8 million performing arts center at the high school opened in the fall of 2016, hosting music and drama events from the school as well as other community performances. [9]
The Jaguaress dance team claimed a Division 1 kick championship in 2018, Division 2 kick and pom championships in 2019, a Division 2 pom championship in 2021, and a Division 2 kick championship in 2023. [10] [11] [12]
Ashwaubenon's Nordic skiing team won the 2020 state championship. [13]
AHS has a competitive show choir, "Encore". [14]
In 2008, the school made national and international headlines after it was discovered that a 33-year-old mother of two named Wendy Anne Brown had disguised herself as her teenage daughter and enrolled as a sophomore, attending classes for one day and being admitted to the cheerleading program before being caught by the police and charged with identity theft. [15] [16] Diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, avoidant personality disorder and paranoid personality disorder, the court found her “not guilty by reason of mental disease.” [17] The story was later adapted into a 2019 Lifetime movie entitled Identity Theft of a Cheerleader , starring Maiara Walsh, Karis Cameron, Jesse Irving, Naika Toussaint, Chiara Guzzo, Matty Finochio, Bzhaun Rhoden, and Gail O'Grady. [18]
In 2017, the school again made national headlines after a parent who thought a student dressed as a stormtrooper from Star Wars for May the Fourth (Star Wars Day) was a threat to the school, resulting in an evacuation. A nearby middle school and community center were also placed on lockdown during the incident. [19]