Mill Valley High School
| Mill Valley High School | |
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| Address | |
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5900 Monticello Road Shawnee, Kansas 66226 United States |
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| Coordinates | 39°01′12″N 94°50′27″W / 39.02000°N 94.84083°WCoordinates: 39°01′12″N 94°50′27″W / 39.02000°N 94.84083°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public high school |
| Established | 2000 |
| School district | De Soto School District |
| Principal | Tobie Waldeck |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1300 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Midnight Blue and Silver |
| Mascot | Jaguar |
| Rival | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Newspaper | The JagWire |
| Yearbook | The JAG |
| Website | Mill Valley High School |
Mill Valley High School is a high school located in Shawnee, Kansas, and is part of the De Soto School District (USD 232). As of the 2013-2014 school year, its attendance is roughly 1,302.
Mill Valley is a member of the Kansas State High School Activities Association and offers a variety of sports programs. Athletic teams compete in the 5A division and are known as the "Jaguars". Extracurricular activities are also offered in the form of performing arts, school publications, and clubs.
The school began classes in 2000–01. In 2008, the school district proposed and passed two bond issues to expand the school because of ongoing increases in attendance. Construction on Mill Valley began in February 2009. The construction was finished in the summer of 2010. The second expansion of the school building follows a prior extension of the "A" hallway including the construction of a dedicated art wing.
Mill Valley's choral program offers a two mixed chorusus, two girls groups, and a mixed ensemble. The Jag Chorale, Mill Valley's advanced mixed chorus, has sung with the Kansas City Chorale, and has received straight one ratings in Male, Female, and Mixed group performance at contest in 2013 and 2014.
While no orchestral program is offered, Mill Valley has three standard bands, the Blue, Silver, and Symphonic Bands, as well as a Jazz Band. Both Blue and Silver bands have received high marks at contests in Kansas and Missouri. During the 2015-2016 school year, Mill Valley created the Symphonic Band, an audition-only ensemble for upper-level musicians.
The Mill Valley Theatre Department puts on two productions a year (usually these consist of one fall musical and one spring play), and the department also offers many stage related classes such as Drama I, Drama II, and Stagecraft.
The Quiz Bowl Team has competed at the state level numerous times, including 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, and also participated in the U.S. Department of Energy National Science Bowl in Washington, D.C. in 2007 and 2009.
The Jaguar Robotics Team, founded during the 2005–06 school year, held the Midwest FIRST Robotics Competition Winner title in 2006 and won the St. Louis Xerox Creativity Award in 2009. In the 10 years it has been a team it has competed using mostly with robots constructed from PVC piping for a lack of funding and shop. The team has gone to the World Championship level to compete twice on the Newton and Curie fields of the FIRST Nationals held in St. Louis, Missouri at the end of April each year. In its latest year of competing in the 2013-2014 school year the team came in 6th amongst 39 teams in Searcy, Arkansas and 8th amongst 59 teams in Kansas City, Missouri with competitions held at a regional level.
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