Sun Prairie High School

Sun Prairie High School (SPHS) is a public high school in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States. The school is administered by the Sun Prairie Area School District. In the 2008-2009 school year, there were 146 teachers and 1,802 students at Sun Prairie High School. SPHS is a WIAA Division 1 school. It is a member of the Big Eight athletic conference.[2]

Sun Prairie High School
Address
888 Grove Street

Sun Prairie
,
Wisconsin
53590

United States
Coordinates43.17328°N 89.20952°W / 43.17328; -89.20952
Information
TypePublic high school
School districtSun Prairie Area School District
PrincipalKeith Nerby
Teaching staff111.00 (FTE)[1]
Grades10–12
Enrollment1,697 (2017–18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio15.29[1]
Color(s)Red and white         
NicknameCardinals
YearbookThe Cardinal
Websitewww.sunprairieschools.org/high

In the summer of 2010 the school moved to a new building in the southeast part of town. The new high school includes a gym that seats 2,100 and has an indoor track.[3] The former school became a combined 8th and 9th grade upper middle school and was named Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics

Swimming

Before the construction of the new high school in 2010, the Sun Prairie Area School District did not have a swimming pool. The girls' swim team practiced in Waterloo, Wisconsin and did not host home meets and the boys participated in a co-operative swim team with Madison La Follete High School (before 2008) and with DeForest High School (2008-2010). With the addition of a pool to the new Sun Prairie High School, SPHS now fields its own boys' and girls' swim teams.[4][5][6]

State championships
  • Baseball: 1974, 1994, 1997, 2005,[7] 2006,[8] 2012,[9] 2013,)[10] 2014[11]
  • Bowling: 2015,[12] 2016[13]
  • Cross Country (girls): 2016,[14] 2017[15]
  • Football: 1995
  • Golf (boys): 1991
  • Hockey: 1997[16]
  • Softball: 2018

Academic Decathlon

Sun Prairie's Academic Decathlon team has placed in the top three at the Wisconsin state finals five times.[17]

In April 2014, the Sun Prairie Academic Decathlon team represented Wisconsin in the Large School division of the National United States Academic Decathlon online national competition taking fifth place among the large schools. They repeated this in 2016.

Music

The Sun Prairie High School Jazz I has been selected to compete in the Essentially Ellington Jazz Band competition in New York City 12 times since the festival's conception, most recently in 2018.[18][19][20]

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Sun Prairie High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  2. "Big 8 Conference". 2011
  3. - SPHS Gym - May 2, 2011
  4. Cotant, Pamela (October 25, 2010). "School Spotlight: New pool is cool for Sun Prairie swimmers". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
  5. Rodriguez, Sam (January 20, 2010). "Swimmers ninth at invitational". De Forest Times-Tribune. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  6. "Special Meeting - Open Session - March 26, 2007 - Board of Education". board.madison.k12.wi.us. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  7. "Eau Claire North vs Sun Prairie". www.wiaawi.org. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  8. "Wisconsin Lutheran vs Sun Prairie (6/15/06)". www.wiaawi.org. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  9. "Sun Prairie vs Bay Port (6/14/12)". www.wiaawi.org. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  10. "Sun Prairie High School baseball review". hngnews.com. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  11. 608-252-6473, JIM POLZIN jpolzin@madison.com. "WIAA state baseball: Sun Prairie rallies to bring home a third straight state title". madison.com. Retrieved May 6, 2017.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. http://www.wihsbowlclub.com/docs/2015%20BOYS%20TEAM%20DIV%201%20SCORES.pdf
  13. http://www.wihsbowlclub.com/docs/2016FINAL%20SCORES-BoysTeamDivI.pdf
  14. http://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Results/Cross_Country/2016/gd1stateteamresults.pdf
  15. "WIAA D1 State XC Championships - Cross Country Meet".
  16. "The Hockey database listing of Sun Prairie Alumni" (SHTML). Retrieved June 19, 2007.
  17. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-12. Retrieved 2016-03-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. "Home". academy.jazz.org. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  19. "Sun Prairie High School Jazz I wins awards at Essentially Ellington". The Sun Prairie Star. May 25, 2016. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  20. "Jazz I has final push before tenth Essentially Ellington trip". The Sun Prairie Star. April 30, 2016. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  21. http://www.hngnews.com/sun_prairie_star/community/article_a823ed00-1f%5B%5D
  22. "Andy Thompson". www.retrosheet.org. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
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