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| Marquette High School | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
 Chesterfield, MO, United States |
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| Information | |
| Principal | Dr. Paige Muench |
| Assistant Principals | Lisa Karczmarczyk Greg Mathison Steve Henkins Dan Ramsey Jim Lucero |
| Type | Public School |
| Grades | 9th - 12th |
| Mascot | Mustang |
| Established | 1993 |
| Students | 2116 |
| Homepage | http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/marquette/ |
Marquette High School, located in Chesterfield, Missouri is a secondary school in the Rockwood School District.
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Student Body
Marquette has a student body that usually numbers over two thousand students. The class of 2009 has a total of 484 students. Most students are from Selvidge Middle School or Crestview Middle School.
Athletics
Marquette fields a number of sports teams. Boys' teams include: tennis, swimming and diving, football, basketball, track and field, cross country, soccer, baseball, volleyball, golf, ice hockey, and roller hockey. Girls' teams include: swimming and diving, basketball, track and field, cross country, soccer, softball, volleyball, golf, lacrosse, and field hockey. Most sports have varsity and junior varsity teams; some also have a freshman team. Marquette is considered a Class 4A large school according to MSHSAA, the Missouri State High School Athletics Association, and therefore competes at the district, sectional, and state levels with some of the largest high schools in Missouri. Marquette competes at the conference level in the Suburban West Conference, along with rival Lafayette High School (Wildwood, MO), Lindbergh High School (St. Louis, MO), Fox High School (Arnold, MO), Northwest High School (House Springs, MO), Kirkwood High School (Kirkwood, MO), Parkway South High School (Manchester, MO), Mehlville High School (St. Louis, MO), and Oakville High School (St. Louis, MO). Men's Soccer and Men's Swimming & Water Polo are two of the more successful teams that Marquette fields. Other good teams are Girl's Swimming and Girl's Golf. Marquette's Wrestling team has also fielded some great teams, and some great athletes, most notably Bobby Conn.
Academics
Newsweek named Marquette High School as number 714 of the Top 1,300 Public High Schools in the United States.[1] It offers a large variety of AP(Advanced Placement) courses, which include: AP US History, AP European History, AP Psychology, AP US/Comparative Government, AP Calculus AB/BC, AP Statistics, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics B, AP Physics C, AP Economics (teaches for both Micro and Macro), AP Spanish, AP French, AP German, AP Latin, AP Computer Science, AP Music Theory, and AP Art History.
MHStv
The school's student news station is MHStv. A television station local to Marquette High School in Chesterfield, MO that creates a weekly news show as well as numerous other video productions for the high school and the local community. Works Mustang News is the weekly 100% student produced news program at Marquette High School, located in Chesterfield, Missouri. Mustang News is aired on the school's closed circuit television network, on channel 97 as well as on Charter Cable in St. Louis twice a month. In Broadcasting I and II, teams of students develop, film, and edit everything. This completely hands-on experience, teaches our reporters and techies the skills necessary to use the equipment and tell a story. They also have the enjoyment of having what they made played for the whole school to see on Fridays during 3rd hour. The Senior DVD consists of a one-hour video, as well as other special features, that is played at the school's senior farewell and given out to all the graduating seniors as a memory of their time in high school. The Mookie Stunt Team videos are short comedic films aired to the students every year before major events in order to raise school spirit. MHStv films and edits the videos for the Mookie Stunt Team. Affiliations MHStv is proud to be a member of the [Student Television Network], which is a national, non-profit organization bringing together schools with their own broadcast programs. The organization supports and promotes scholastic television with active e-groups, summer workshops, challenging national contests, and now, a yearly convention designed solely to help its members learn and grow while promoting networking and sharing with teachers and students from across the planet. [Tell The Story] competition in Los Angeles, California. Awards MHStv won 3rd place for the Sweet-Sixteen Competition at the 4th annual STN National Convention in 2007. They competed against 40 other schools from across the nation and placed 3rd in the green division. MHStv has also won 2 Honorable mentions in the STN Spring 2006 Contest in the Show Opener and Original Short
Newspaper
The school's student newspaper is a monthly publication known as The Marquette Messenger.
Extra-Curriculars
MHS offers many activities, groups, and organizations outside of its Academics and sports teams. Many of these teams and groups such as Orchestra, Band, Choir, and Debate are consistently competitive and highly successful in their performances at the District, State, and National levels. Additionally, Marquette has a very large theater program, the Marquette Theatre Company, a part of the International Thespian Society, which usually produces at least three shows each school year. Other groups/organizations include: TLC (Teens Looking for a Cure), Scholar Bowl, Spanish Club, French Club, Latin Club, National Honor Society, Beta Chi Pi, Mu Alpha Theta, and Student Council (StuCo).
Notable alumni
- Larissa Meek - Class of 1996
- Jeff Irwin - Class of 1996
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