Eureka High School, located in Eureka

Eureka, Missouri

Eureka is a city located in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, between St. Louis and Pacific, Missouri, along Interstate 44. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 10,189. The city is west of the former site of Times Beach, the site of dioxin contamination discovered in...

, Missouri

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, is a secondary school

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 in the Rockwood School District

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Student body

Eureka has a co-educational student body of nearly 2000. Most students are from Wildwood Middle School or LaSalle Springs Middle School.
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In the way of sports, Eureka has teams for:

• Boys' and girls' basketball
• Boys' and girls' cross-country
• Boys' and girls' golf
• Boys' and girls' lacrosse
• Boys' and girls' swimming
• Boys' and girls' track
• Boys' and girls' volleyball
• Boys' and girls' tennis
• Boys' and girls' soccer
• Boys' and girls' swimming and diving
• Hockey
• Rugby
• Baseball
• Wrestling
• Water polo
• Field Hockey
• Freshman, junior varsity, and varsity football

Eureka also has the following activities:

• 160-member marching band
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   (The "Wildcat Pride Marching Band," won sweepstakes in 2004 for their show "Stormworks." Won best percussion is 2006.)
• Color guard
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   to perform with the marching band, as well as a winter guard
  Winter guard
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• Large open concert band, took "I", "I-", and "II" ratings at the State Band Festival in 2006.
• Selective symphonic band, scored three perfect "I+s" at the State Band Festival in 2006.

• A curricular jazz lab band as well as an extracurricular jazz band/big band.
• Chamber, Concert, and Symphonic Orchestras.
• Mixed, Mixed Chamber, Treble, and Treble Chamber Choirs, as well as a Concert Chorale and a Show Choir. ("Onstage!")
• Junior varsity and varsity pom/dance squads ("Golden Line") (Won state in 2007.)
• Freshman, junior varsity, and varsity cheerleading squads (Won state in 2005.)
• A quiz bowl team
• A debate team
• An International Club
• A French Club
• A Yoga Club
• An Art Club
• A Photography Club
• A Book Club
• A Key Club
• A Renaissance Committee recognizing students with 3.0 or above GPA
• A theater company, ("etc...") winning regional awards from the CAPPIES
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   for their 2005 run of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
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  . In the 2006/2007 school year they won 8 St. Louis CAPPIE Awards for their productions of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Hamlet". In 2007/2008 etc... went on to win Best Play for their production of "Wait Until Dark" and other recognitions for "My Fair Lady"
• Politicats- a political group who talks to politicians
• National Honor Society
• Many variously-themed clubs and student bodies.

Academics

In 2004, Newsweek

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 named Eureka one of the most challenging High Schools in the country. Time

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also listed Eureka among its top 100 high schools.

Newspaper

The school's student newspaper publication is The Bugle.