Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School

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Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School
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Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School in June 2015
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Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School
630 Evans Avenue

Wyomissing
,
Berks County
,
PA
,
19610

United States
Coordinates 40°19′27″N75°58′18″W / 40.3243°N 75.9716°W / 40.3243; -75.9716
Information
Funding type Public
Motto Esse quam videri (Latin)
("To be, rather than to seem.")
Established1908
School district Wyomissing Area School District
PrincipalDr. Corey Jones
Staff79.4 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades 7-12
Enrollment874 (2022-23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio11.01 [1]
CampusSuburban
Color(s) Navy blue and white
  
Slogan"Inspiring Excellence, One Spartan at a Time"
Team nameSpartans [2]
Rival Berks Catholic High School
YearbookThe Colophon
Website District website

Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School is a secondary school serving the Wyomissing Area School District. Located in the borough of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, United States, the school has approximately 900 students in grades seven through twelve. [3] WAHS has been included in Newsweek's list of top 1,200 public high schools in the United States annually since 2006. [4]

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In 2014, The Washington Post named WAHS the most challenging public school in the state, excluding magnet and charter schools, [5] and U.S. News & World Report ranked it as the best public school in Pennsylvania, excluding magnet and charter schools. [6]

History

In 1909, the Wyomissing School District was founded, and classes began being taught in a private residence. In 1908, the district's first building was completed on Belmont Avenue and served grades 1-11 until 1922; seniors attended another area high school.[ citation needed ] It served grades 1-6 until 1939. This building is now the Wyomissing Institute of Fine Arts. The first dedicated high school building was constructed in 1923 on Wyomissing Boulevard. This building remained the high school until 1939, when it became the elementary school and the high school moved to Evans Avenue. The current high school was constructed in 1940, as part of Franklin Roosevelt's depression recovery program, the Works Projects Administration. The building was expanded to meet the growing student body in 1965, and was renovated in 1994. The Wyomissing School District became the Wyomissing Area School District upon merging with the former West Reading School District in the late 1960s. In 1984, the original high school, which was built in 1923, was destroyed and the land was sold for housing.

An addition was finished in September 2006, which added several classrooms, a chorus room, and a stagecraft workshop. The somewhat controversial renovation removed two courtyards in the school, many windows in classrooms, and part of the student parking area.[ citation needed ] The school's auditorium was also renovated. This included removing the windows, replacing the seats, installing new curtains and carpeting, repainting, and installing garage doors in the stage right wing and a new set construction rooms so that scenery could be moved.

Academics

There are 567 sections of 183 courses in basic core areas and in electives. [7] The school offers 30 honors and 23 Advanced Placement courses. [8] During the 2021-22 school year, 481 AP exams were administered to 189 students, and 77% of students scored 3 or higher on the exam (from 1-5). The same year, the average SAT score was 1145 (557 in math and 587 in ELA); the state average was 1091 (540 in math and 551 in ELA). [3] The school has a 95% graduation rate, with 94% of high school seniors attending a two- or four-year institution of higher education. [9]

Student demographics

As of the 2021-22 school year, the Wyomissing Area Junior-Senior High School has an average of 146 students in each grade. 49% of students are male and 51% are female. [10]

0.3% of students are Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. 0.4% of students are American Indian/Alaska Native. 2.9% are Asian, 5.4% are African-American, 26.5% are Hispanic, 60.9% are Caucasian, and 3.2% report themselves as two or more races. 33.6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch under the National School Lunch Act of 1946. [11]

According to a 2023 report from the Wyomissing Area School District, 35.3% of students in the district are economically disadvantaged, 15.7% are enrolled in the district's Special Education program, 5.5% have a Gifted IEP, and 3.3% are Limited English Proficient Students.

Of the Class of 2022, 75% of students reported they were planning to attend a 4-year college after graduation. 17% planned to go straight to employment, 10% planned to attend a 2-year college, 3% planned to go to a career and technical school, and 1 student planned to have a postgraduate year. The 4-year cohort graduation rate for 2022 was 96.36%, which is 4.01 percentage points higher than the previous year. [12]

Extracurricular activities

The school offers a number of opportunities for student participation outside of the classroom.

Athletics

Since the early 1990s, the school has won the PIAA state championship in boys' football (2012), boys' soccer (1994), girls' cross country (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002), boys’ cross country (2017), girls' tennis (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2016), boys' track (2003), boys' volleyball (2008), boys' tennis (2009, 2010, 2012), and golf (2012).

The school fields the following teams:

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Bowling
  • Cheerleading
  • Color guard
  • Cross country
  • Field hockey
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Lacrosse
  • Marching band
  • Boys' soccer
  • Girls' soccer
  • Softball
  • Swimming
  • Tennis
  • Spring track and field
  • Winter track and field
  • Volleyball
  • Wrestling

Clubs

The school offers the following extracurricular clubs: [13]

  • Aevidum Club
  • Art Club
  • Best Buddies
  • Big Spartan/Little Spartan
  • Brass Ensemble
  • Camerata
  • Chariot student newspaper
  • Chess Club [14]
  • Chorale
  • Colophon yearbook
  • Color Guard
  • Concert Choir
  • Cooking Club
  • Debate Team
  • Drama Club
  • Environmental Club
  • French Club
  • Freshmen Select Ensemble
  • Gay-Straight Alliance
  • Hope Squad
  • Jazz Band
  • Latin Club
  • Literary-Art Magazine
  • Marching Band
  • Math Team
  • Memory Book yearbook
  • Mini-THON
  • Model UN
  • Peer Mediation
  • Pit Orchestra
  • Science Olympiad
  • Service Club
  • Ski Club
  • Spanish Club
  • STEAM club
  • Student Council
  • Student Tutoring
  • Varsity Singers
  • Wyo5Live
  • Wyo Quiz Bowl Team

Notable alumni

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