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Neuqua Valley High School





FACILITIES

  • One 25 yard indoor swimming pool, with a side diving well with two boards, and a small wading/warmup pool.

  • The Blue Campus has 3 Gymnasiums. 2, each with 3 basketball courts, and one acting as the Gymnastics area.

  • A fully equipped weight room

  • Wrestling room

  • 8 General Computer Labs, 2 Sound Media Labs

  • 1 Auditorium

  • 1 football field enclosed by a 400m asphalt running track

  • The blue campus is divided into wings A-E

  • ---The A wing contains Neuqua's Fine and Applied Arts, as well as industrial and consumer education classrooms and facilities.

  • ---The B wing contains History, English and Health classrooms

  • ---The C wing contains Science classrooms complete with lab equipment

  • ---The D wing contains Math, Computer Science, Foreign Language and Business Classrooms

  • ---The E wing contains the Cafeteria and Physical Education facilities.



  • See trivia for further accomplishments.


    TRIVIA

    • Total enrollment for the 2004-05 academic year was 3,791 students.

    • The school's athletic mascot is "The Wildcats."

    • Neuqua Valley competes in the Upstate Eight Conference for athletics.

    • The men's soccer team won the IHSA State final game in the fall 2003 season

    • When opened, it was rumored to be the most expensive high school built in the country.

    • Former Neuqua student Joshua Harmony became a pro-skateboarder for Toy Machine in 2002.

    • Actress and model Danielle Panabaker attended Neuqua Valley, but moved to California before she would have been eligible for graduation.

    • Neuqua Valley has received recognition by the National Academy Of Recording Arts And Sciences for its music program. The school was named a GRAMMY® Signature school in 1999 and 2001, a GRAMMY® Gold Signature school in 2000 and a National GRAMMY® Signature school in 2005. Music Department homepage , with list of awards.

    • The lake behind the school is known as "Lake Birkett," in honor of the school's first principal, Kathy Birkett.



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