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Green Bay West High School

{{short description|Public secondary school in Green Bay, Wisconsin}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox school

| name = Green Bay West High School

| logo = Green Bay West High logo.jpg

| image_size =

| image = Green Bay July 2024 003 (Green Bay West High School).jpg

| caption =

| address = 966 Shawano Ave

| city = Green Bay

| state = Wisconsin

| zipcode = 54301

| country = United States

| coordinates =

| schooltype = Public High School

| motto =

| established = 1890 (As McCartney School)

1910 (As West High School)

| closed =

| district = Green Bay Area Public School District

| principal = Dexter McNabb

| teaching_staff = 62.91 (FTE)

| ratio = 12.46

| key_people =

| grades = 9 through 12

| enrollment = 784 (2023–2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&Miles=10&Zip=54303&ID=550582000644|title=West High|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=December 16, 2024}}

| school_colors = {{color box|Purple}} {{color box|black}}

| mascot = Wildcat

| Yearbook =

| athletics_conference = Bay Conference

| rival = Green Bay East

| url = {{URL|https://west.gbaps.org}}

| website =

}}

Green Bay West High School is a high school in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, serving the city's west side. Originally founded in 1890 as the high school for the town of Fort Howard (annexed into Green Bay in 1895), the school opened as West High School in 1910 and has occupied its current building since 1929.

History

File:Green Bay West cafeteria 2020.jpg

The institution that would become West High School opened in 1890 as the McCartney School, in what then was the neighboring town of Fort Howard. With the annexation of Fort Howard into Green Bay in 1895, the two school districts merged, though the McCartney School (known as Old West High) would continue to operate until 1910, when West High School formally opened.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gbaps.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=484795&pageId=504807|title=District Timeline - Green Bay Area Public School District|website=www.gbaps.org|access-date=2019-03-05}} The McCartney School later took on west-side 8th graders, becoming a precursor junior high school. West High School received a new building in 1926 and has occupied that building since.

Athletics

{{See also|Green Bay East–Green Bay West football rivalry}}

The school's mascot is a Wildcat. Its rivalry with Green Bay East High School is Wisconsin's longest consecutively-played high school football rivalry between in-state schools. In January 2014, the WIAA approved a realignment plan that moved both Green Bay East and Green Bay West out of the Fox River Classic Conference and into the Bay Conference starting in 2015-2016, which continued the East-West rivalry. West High School fielded Green Bay's first girls' basketball team in 1911.

The Wildcats have won three WIAA state championships, most recently in 2014 for girls' hockey (a cooperative team). They also won the Class A state title in boys' track and field in 1934 and 1954.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF//Results/statechampsbyschool.htm|title=State Championships by School|last=|first=|date=|website=WIAA|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-04-19}}

Performing arts

In the late 1900s, Green Bay West had a competitive show choir.{{cite web |title=SCC: Viewing School - Green Bay West High School |url=https://www.showchoir.com/choirs/school.php?id=1959 |website=Show Choir Community |accessdate=September 7, 2020}}

Notable alumni

Like crosstown rival Green Bay East, many West alumni played for the Green Bay Packers in the team's earliest years.

= Packers alumni =

= Other alumni =

References

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External links

  • [http://west.gbaps.org/ Green Bay West High School]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928110243/http://www.westwildcatsgb.wi.usfootballnet.com/ Wildcat football]

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Category:High schools in Green Bay, Wisconsin

Category:Public high schools in Wisconsin

Category:1890 establishments in Wisconsin

Category:Educational institutions established in 1890