HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL (CHANDLER, ARIZONA)

'Hamilton High School' is the second public high-school built in Chandler. It is the first High School in Chandler to have a branch of the Chandler Public Library integrated into the school.
Extracurricular activities include 27 Interscholastic Athletic Teams, a chapter of the National Honor Society, Academic Decathlon, Speech and Debate, Student Government, and forty clubs and organizations.
Hamilton High received the Chandler Education Foundation 100% Awareness status from 1998-2001, and was the only Arizona A+ school in 2005.^[1]
Hamilton is very well know throughout the state for its superiority in sports. Students are involved in many different athletic activities, such as football, soccer, basketball, golf, softball,wrestling, tennis, and volleyball. Its traditional rival in the Chandler School District is Chandler High School, but competition is increasing with the city's newest high school, Basha High School. Hamilton High School's football teams are perennially dominant: they won Arizona Division 5A State Championships for the 2003-2004, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007 school years, and also played in the title games in 2001 (vs Red Mountain) and 2005 (vs Brophy).
Hamilton's fine arts programs include choir, orchestra, band (including marching band), ceramics, and drama. Hamilton's chapter of ITS won the 2005 State competition with a performance of Up the Down Staircase. Hamilton's We the People Honors class has won 1st place each of the past 4 years at the district level and taken 2nd three of the past 4 years at state.^[2] The Marching Huskies have achieved ratings of Superior and/or Superior With Distinction at the A.B.O.D.A State Marching Festival for the past two years in a row.
Each year, Hamilton hosts the Hamilton Invitational Science and Engineering Fair (HISEF), in which high-school students from all schools in the Chandler School District compete in many different categories, including biology, physics, mathematics and computers, behavioral science, botany, and zoology. Elementary and middle-schoolers also compete in their own divisions. In addition, the SECME mouse-trap car competitions are held the day of the fair.

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Design

Notable alumni

References

External links

Design

Initially built to hold 2,600 kids, the 3,000+ students at Hamilton may find getting around school a bit difficult. Hamilton is, for the most part, a 2 story, completely enclosed campus (all main classrooms and main facilities are inside of the same building. This keeps kids of out the scorching hot weather during the summer, and it also creates a safer environment and makes securing the school easier if a lock-down is necessary) with a very unique and fashionable design that you may mistake for a mall if looking from the outside. Some mall-like traits are noticed in the inside as well. It definitely stands out from the rest of the district's brown, mud like colors and simple, boxy high school designs. Students are given 7 minutes to get to each class. Each class is located in one of Hamilton's 8 main areas or "hallways". Each hallway has its own staircase so you won't have to go to a very crowded main hallway in order to get to a class upstairs. The main hallways are the only connection to the library, administrations office, cafeteria, gym, and auditorium located on the Southern side of the school. Many electives such as P.E., theater, choir, band, and orchestra take place in these areas. The auditorium sits about 600, a cafeteria meant for a couple hundred but is very crowded during lunch, a gym that sits about 3,000, and the stadium just south of the school sits about 6,000. Hamilton also has a track, a public swimming pool with special water features, multiple tennis courts, 2 soccer fields, and 6 fields used for baseball and practice.

Notable alumni

★ Terrell Suggs, Baltimore Ravens defensive end / linebacker

References

1. http://www.ade.state.az.us/edd/NewDetails.asp?EntityID=6015&RefTypeID=1153
2. http://www.hamiltonhuskies.com/content/view/78/129/

External links

★ Hamilton High School official website

★ School report card from the Arizona Department of Education

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