Green Bay Southwest High School

Public secondary school in Green Bay, Wisconsin

44°31′11″N 88°05′53″W / 44.51965°N 88.098174°W / 44.51965; -88.098174InformationSchool typePublic High schoolMottoThrough Strength and Courage Together We Will...School districtGreen Bay Area Public SchoolsPrincipalMicheal WhislerFaculty72.50 (FTE)^[1]Grades9–12Enrollment1,155 (2018–19)^[1]Student to teacher ratio15.93^[1]LanguageEnglishHours in school dayEight (8)Color(s)Royal blue and silverSloganThrough Strength and Courage Together We Will...SongOur DirectorFight songOur DirectorAthletics conferenceFox River Classic ConferenceMascotFighting TrojanTeam nameFighting TrojansRivalGreen Bay Notre DameNewspaperThe ShieldYearbookThe ClassicFeeder schoolsLombardi Middle SchoolWebsitehttp://southwest.gbaps.org/

Green Bay Southwest High School is one of four public high schools located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Southwest High School is located at 1331 Packerland Drive. Its school colors are royal blue and silver, and their logo and mascot is the Trojan helmet.

Academics

Nearly half of Southwest's class of 2011 attended accredited four-year colleges (49%).^[3] The school offered 14 Advanced Placement courses in 2007, with 220 AP tests taken in May 2007.^[3] Overall, 31% of students participated in AP Exams in 2016.^[4] Southwest has partnered with NWTC to provide a number of Technical classes at the High School.^[5] Southwest High School was ranked #13 in Wisconsin as the best overall school by Newsweek 2013. The school made the Top 20 four years running. A collaboration with NWTC in 2012 to provide credited courses in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) provides students hands on coursework in blueprint reading; welding, and robotics. The music department is a magnet for students from neighboring schools and school districts.

Demographics

The school is 66% white, 9% Hispanic, 8% Native American, 6% black, 5% native American, and 5% of students identify as a part of two or more races.^[6]

Athletics

Southwest's athletic teams are known as the Fighting Trojans, and compete in the Fox River Classic Conference. The Trojans have won two Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association state championships, one as part of a co-op girls' hockey team in 2014, and the Division 1 girls' tennis championship in 1997.^[7]

The football stadium and track and field area is named Dahlin Family Stadium. It was renovated in 2014 to add synthetic turf.^[8] Carl Sunby Gymnasium, named after a former athletic director,^[9] has a capacity of 2000^[10] and is often used as a neutral site for WIAA basketball playoff sectionals. Additionally, Southwest has tennis courts, baseball diamonds, and an indoor swimming pool.

Notable alumni

John Anderson (1983), ESPN reporter^[11]
Lou Goss, NASCAR driver.^[12]
Natisha Hiedeman (2015), basketball player for the Israeli team Maccabi Bnot Ashdod and the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)^[13]
Andre Jacque (1999), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly^[14]
Kahlil McKenzie (attended 2011-2013), NFL and XFL defensive lineman ^[15]
Max Scharping (2014), NFL offensive lineman^[16]

Health care reform meetings

Southwest High School was the site of a visit by former U.S. president Barack Obama on June 11, 2009, who led a town hall meeting about health care reform.^[17] At the request of members of the physical education and health staff at the school, he signed a wall in a health classroom.^[18]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Southwest High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
^ "WISEdash Data Files by Topic". Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Profile of Southwest" (PDF). Green Bay Area Public School District. Retrieved 2009-09-04.
^ "Southwest High". US News. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
^ West High closer to having International Baccalaureate program, an August 18, 2009 article from the Green Bay Press-Gazette
^ "Southwest High in Green Bay, WI - Student Body". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
^ "State Championships by School". WIAA. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
^ "Southwest to install synthetic turf field". USA TODAY High School Sports. 2014-04-08. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
^ "Carl Sunby's Obituary on Green Bay Press-Gazette". Green Bay Press-Gazette. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
^ "Gymnasium Seating Capacities" (PDF). WIAA. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
^ http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/ic/blogs/preps/2008/07/espn-anchor-owns-green-bay-southwest.html
^ Soquet, William (October 1, 2019). "FEATURE: Lou Goss carving his own identity in long line of Wisconsin drivers". LASTCAR.info. Blogger. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
^ "Natisha Hiedeman".
^ "Representative Andre Jacque". Wisconsin State Legislature. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
^ "Former Green Bay Southwest star Kahlil McKenzie ready for the NFL".
^ "Green Bay Southwest's Scharping drafted by Houston Texans in second round".
^ Remarks by the President in Town Hall Meeting on Health Care Archived 2010-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, a June 11, 2009 White House press release
^ P061109PS-0111, a photograph from the White House's official photostream at Flickr