Canterbury High School (Fort Wayne)
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Canterbury School is an independent college preparatory school for students of pre-school age through Grade 12. The school is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana
and enrolls 905 students in three divisions.
. It was a nondenominational, self-supported school with 89 students in Kindergarten through Grade Six. It sought to inspire and motivate students while instilling Christian values and morals, cultivating an appreciation for the fine arts, developing foreign language skills, and setting high standards for teaching and learning. It continued to grow and within three years, it outgrew its church setting. In 1980, it relocated to the vacant Fort Wayne Community Schools building on Covington Road. When Jonathan Hancock arrived as the fourth headmaster in 1983, he oversaw Canterbury’s expansion to Grade 12. And in 1987, the year the first seniors graduated from Canterbury, the school grew yet again, opening a campus for grades nine through 12 on Smith Road. Programs for students as young as 2 were added that year, providing opportunities for children of every age to meet and embrace the educational challenges envisioned by those caring and dedicated parents who first served as an example of what can be achieved. Then, in 2007-2008, the school added onto both campuses.
Canterbury High School's students consistently score higher on state and national SAT averages, often having some of the highest scores in the state: the class of 2008 had a 1244 average, compared to the state 1007 average, and 1017 national average. All students enrolled in AP level courses are required to take the exam. In 2008, 117 students took 263 exams. 96% of the exams scored a three (pass grade) or higher while 80% of all exams taken earned a four or five note. These statistics and its college preparatory curriculum credit Canterbury as one of the best high schools in the state of Indiana.
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Canterbury maintains its inclusion policy, allowing all students to compete in sports, even if they are not competitive at the varsity level.
In 2008, 2009 and 2010, the Girls Basketball team won back-to-back-to-back titles as the Indiana state champion in class 1A. The 2010 championship was especially memorable as it was won in Fort Wayne's own Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
, the only time in tournament history that the championship has been held outside of Indianapolis. The Canterbury Boys Soccer Team also has a long history of competing at the State Championships. In all sports, the school has had a total of 15 semi-state or state final appearances.
The school's baseball field is dimensionally modeled after the field of Yankee Stadium
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, computer art, visual art, chamber music, jazz band, debate, speech, women's choir, men's a cappella
, or theatre
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Each year, the high school puts on two productions, typically a musical and a play. Recent works include: Seussical
, The Wizard of Oz
, Into the Woods
, Romeo and Juliet
, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
, You Can't Take it With You
, and The Man Who Came to Dinner
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Anime
Club
Bowling
Team
Canterbury Automated Vehicle Society (CAVS)
Canterbury Against Bulling (CAB)
Debate
Excalibur Yearbook
International Student Organization
Junior Engineering Technical Society
(JETS) TEAMS
Junior Classical League
Key Club International
Mimesis Literary Review
Model UN
Sci Fi
Club
Science Olympiad
Science Show
Speech Team
Sententiae Literary Magazine
Stock Market Club
Untitled Paper
In 2009, the team placed second, with only two state finalists, both in Discussion: AJ Alifimoff, a sophomore, in second, and freshman Jodie Goodman in fifth.
In 2010, the team repeated with two discussion finalists, AJ Alifimoff coming in first place, with Jodie Goodman coming in fourth. The team placed second overall in the Class A division.
In the state tournament, senior Brendan Murphy, and sophomores Nevil Parikh and Chris Bormann were the only people to place.
Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...
and enrolls 905 students in three divisions.
History
Established in 1977, Canterbury School opened at Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Fort Wayne, IndianaFort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County. The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana...
. It was a nondenominational, self-supported school with 89 students in Kindergarten through Grade Six. It sought to inspire and motivate students while instilling Christian values and morals, cultivating an appreciation for the fine arts, developing foreign language skills, and setting high standards for teaching and learning. It continued to grow and within three years, it outgrew its church setting. In 1980, it relocated to the vacant Fort Wayne Community Schools building on Covington Road. When Jonathan Hancock arrived as the fourth headmaster in 1983, he oversaw Canterbury’s expansion to Grade 12. And in 1987, the year the first seniors graduated from Canterbury, the school grew yet again, opening a campus for grades nine through 12 on Smith Road. Programs for students as young as 2 were added that year, providing opportunities for children of every age to meet and embrace the educational challenges envisioned by those caring and dedicated parents who first served as an example of what can be achieved. Then, in 2007-2008, the school added onto both campuses.
School Mission
Canterbury School is an independent, coeducational day school offering a college-preparatory education to students in early childhood through Grade 12. The school seeks to enroll students with diverse talents and backgrounds. Canterbury promotes the total development of each child in his or her intellectual, physical, social, and spiritual growth.Academics
The high school is known for its academic excellence, with nearly 100% of its students matriculating to colleges and universities.Canterbury High School's students consistently score higher on state and national SAT averages, often having some of the highest scores in the state: the class of 2008 had a 1244 average, compared to the state 1007 average, and 1017 national average. All students enrolled in AP level courses are required to take the exam. In 2008, 117 students took 263 exams. 96% of the exams scored a three (pass grade) or higher while 80% of all exams taken earned a four or five note. These statistics and its college preparatory curriculum credit Canterbury as one of the best high schools in the state of Indiana.
Fall
- Boys and Girls Cross CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- Girls GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- Boys TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
- Boys Soccer
- Girls Soccer
- Girls VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
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Winter
- Boys BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- Girls BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- Girls CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
- Boys and Girls SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
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Spring
- Boys BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- Boys GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- Girls SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
- Girls TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
- Boys and Girls TrackTrack and fieldTrack and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
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Canterbury maintains its inclusion policy, allowing all students to compete in sports, even if they are not competitive at the varsity level.
In 2008, 2009 and 2010, the Girls Basketball team won back-to-back-to-back titles as the Indiana state champion in class 1A. The 2010 championship was especially memorable as it was won in Fort Wayne's own Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum is a 13,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Fort Wayne, Indiana, initially built in 1952 for nearly $3 million in Fort Wayne's Johnny Appleseed Park. The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum was originally designed to seat 8,000 for hockey or 10,240 for basketball...
, the only time in tournament history that the championship has been held outside of Indianapolis. The Canterbury Boys Soccer Team also has a long history of competing at the State Championships. In all sports, the school has had a total of 15 semi-state or state final appearances.
The school's baseball field is dimensionally modeled after the field of Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium was a stadium located in The Bronx in New York City, New York. It was the home ballpark of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1973 and from 1976 to 2008. The stadium hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games during its 85-year history. It was also the former home of the New York...
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Fine arts
Canterbury has always wanted its students to receive a well-rounded education. Students study fine arts for at least two semesters, whether it be photographyPhotography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, computer art, visual art, chamber music, jazz band, debate, speech, women's choir, men's a cappella
A cappella
A cappella music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. It is the opposite of cantata, which is accompanied singing. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato...
, or theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
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Each year, the high school puts on two productions, typically a musical and a play. Recent works include: Seussical
Seussical
is a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on the books of Dr. Seuss that debuted on Broadway in 2000. The play's story is a rather complex amalgamation of many of Seuss's most famous books. After a Broadway run, the production spawned two US national tours and a UK tour...
, The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (adaptations)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, which has been adapted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland...
, Into the Woods
Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...
, Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is a parody of the plays written by William Shakespeare with all of them being performed during the show by only three actors. Typically, the actors use their real names and play themselves rather than certain characters...
, You Can't Take it With You
You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You is a comedic play in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. The original production of the play opened at the Booth Theater on December 14, 1936, and played for 837 performances...
, and The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. It debuted on October 16, 1939 at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. It then enjoyed a number of New York and London revivals. The first London production was staged at The Savoy Theatre starring Robert...
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Student organizations
Student organizations include:Anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
Club
Bowling
Bowling
Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
Team
Canterbury Automated Vehicle Society (CAVS)
Canterbury Against Bulling (CAB)
Debate
Excalibur Yearbook
International Student Organization
Junior Engineering Technical Society
Junior Engineering Technical Society
Junior Engineering Technical Society is a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting engineering and technology careers to America's young people. JETS engages students in various engineering education programs that are designed to encourage secondary school students to pursue...
(JETS) TEAMS
TEAMS (academic competition)
Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science is an annual competition originally organized by the Junior Engineering Technical Society...
Junior Classical League
Key Club International
Mimesis Literary Review
Model UN
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
Sci Fi
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
Club
Science Olympiad
Science Show
Speech Team
Sententiae Literary Magazine
Stock Market Club
Untitled Paper
Speech Team
Canterbury won the IHSFA class A state speech tournament in 1996 and 2007 and has placed ever since 2004. In 2008, they placed 3rd in class A, with multiple state finalists, including third place Broadcasting finalist Christian Kraegel (Senior), and state champion Ronnye Rutledge (Senior) in Poetry, and second place in Dramatic Interpretation. Rutledge also placed third in the nation in Poetry and eleventh in Dramatic Interpretation at various times throughout her high school career.In 2009, the team placed second, with only two state finalists, both in Discussion: AJ Alifimoff, a sophomore, in second, and freshman Jodie Goodman in fifth.
In 2010, the team repeated with two discussion finalists, AJ Alifimoff coming in first place, with Jodie Goodman coming in fourth. The team placed second overall in the Class A division.
Untitled Paper
Canterbury's Untitled Paper, under the faculty leadership of Alice Hancock, has placed multiple times in the Columbia Newspaper competition, winning a Silver award many years in a row. The Untitled Paper is published six times a year.Science Olympiad
Canterbury's Science Olympiad team, new in 2009, placed third in the local regional competition. In 2010, Canterbury's Team Newton won the Fort Wayne regional and advanced to the state tournament.In the state tournament, senior Brendan Murphy, and sophomores Nevil Parikh and Chris Bormann were the only people to place.