Martinsville High School (Indiana)
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Martinsville High School is the only high school located in Martinsville, Indiana
. It is part of the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville. Students from Martinsville West Middle School and Martinsville East Middle School all attend Martinsville High School.
. It is located on Gray Street right off of State Road 37.
s after the several mineral water
springs that exist in the city. The school logo is also a well.
MHS features a vocational school, a separate but attached building. Vocational classes allow students to learn trades in real world environments. There are classes for welding, woodworking, electricity, and auto repair. Building trades students actually construct a house.
Martinsville High School has several athletic rooms and buildings. Inside the school there is a large main gymnasium, an auxiliary gymnasium, a second floor pool, wrestling room, weight room, and several locker rooms. Outside, the school has a softball, baseball, tennis, soccer, track, and football field. The football field was named Siderwicz Field in honor of retired coach Bill Siderwicz. The football field also contains a separate building for locker rooms and coaching offices.
In the 06-07 school year Martinsville had 65.5% students pass ISTEP http://mustang.doe.state.in.us/SEARCH/benchmark.cfm?subnum=17&hidden=6329&ip95=checked&istavg=checked&colobg=FFFFFF
Martinsville has many academic clubs. The Spell Bowl team is always at the top of their class in the Indiana Academic Spell Bowl. The Academic Decathlon team is consistently at the top of their class in the Indiana Academic Decathlon, winning the state championship the last 14 years. They have an active DECA
chapter. The school has a broadcast television class that produces news for the school and sports for local cable and has won many awards, one of which was the 2007 TV High School of the Year by IASB http://www.iasbonline.org/hswinners.shtml. The school's Business Professionals of America(BPA) club participates in state competitions. The school has a class that produces a school newspaper called the Artesian Herald.
to Mid-State Conference for location reasons. All schools in Mid-State Conference are located within 25 miles of Martinsville. Most of the schools are also one school communities like Martinsville which will help to establish community rivalries.
Martinsville offers many sports for both men and women. They offer for men, boys' basketball, Boys' Tennis, Boys' Cross Country, Boys' Soccer, Boys' Swimming, Boys' Track Boys' Golf, and Baseball For women they offer, Girls' Basketball, Girls' Tennis, Girls' Soccer, Girls' Golf, Girls' Cross Country, Girls' Track, Girls' Swimming, Softball. They also offer wrestling, football, volleyball, cheerleading, gymnastics, and a variety of musical programs such as The Martinsville Marching Artesians, The Madrigal Singers, and a show choir group called Flashin' Fascination.
Indiana High School Athletic Association
State Champions
Indiana Mr. and Miss
Martinsville, Indiana
Martinsville is a city in and the county seat of Morgan County, Indiana, United States; the population was 11,828 at the 2010 census.-History:...
. It is part of the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville. Students from Martinsville West Middle School and Martinsville East Middle School all attend Martinsville High School.
Location
Martinsville High School is located in the southern end of Morgan CountyMorgan County, Indiana
Morgan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 68,894. The county seat is Martinsville. Morgan is one of seven counties contiguous to Marion County, and is located between Indianapolis, in Marion County, and Bloomington, located in Monroe County...
. It is located on Gray Street right off of State Road 37.
Team name
Martinsville's athletic and academic teams are usually called the ArtesianArtesian aquifer
An artesian aquifer is a confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure. This causes the water level in a well to rise to a point where hydrostatic equilibrium has been reached. This type of well is called an artesian well...
s after the several mineral water
Mineral water
Mineral water is water containing minerals or other dissolved substances that alter its taste or give it therapeutic value, generally obtained from a naturally occurring mineral spring or source. Dissolved substances in the water may include various salts and sulfur compounds...
springs that exist in the city. The school logo is also a well.
Administration
The Martinsville Administration as of the 2008–09 school year.- Don Alkire, Principal
- Rick Heacock, Assistant Principal
- Martin Woody, Assistant Principal
- Jeff Racy, Assistant Principal
- Don Lipps, Athletic Director
- Lori Lund - Director of Guidance
Building
Martinsville High School has many classrooms, a large library-media center called the I.M.C, and a large area dedicated to the performing arts which adjoins the auditorium. An indoor planetarium existed until the 2005-2006 school year. There is a driving range located on school grounds as well.MHS features a vocational school, a separate but attached building. Vocational classes allow students to learn trades in real world environments. There are classes for welding, woodworking, electricity, and auto repair. Building trades students actually construct a house.
Martinsville High School has several athletic rooms and buildings. Inside the school there is a large main gymnasium, an auxiliary gymnasium, a second floor pool, wrestling room, weight room, and several locker rooms. Outside, the school has a softball, baseball, tennis, soccer, track, and football field. The football field was named Siderwicz Field in honor of retired coach Bill Siderwicz. The football field also contains a separate building for locker rooms and coaching offices.
Academics
In the 05-06 school year Martinsville had a graduation rate of 74% http://mustang.doe.state.in.us/SEARCH/benchmark.cfm?subnum=1&hidden=6329&ip95=checked&istavg=checked&colobg=FFFFFFIn the 06-07 school year Martinsville had 65.5% students pass ISTEP http://mustang.doe.state.in.us/SEARCH/benchmark.cfm?subnum=17&hidden=6329&ip95=checked&istavg=checked&colobg=FFFFFF
Martinsville has many academic clubs. The Spell Bowl team is always at the top of their class in the Indiana Academic Spell Bowl. The Academic Decathlon team is consistently at the top of their class in the Indiana Academic Decathlon, winning the state championship the last 14 years. They have an active DECA
DECA (organization)
DECA, also known as Collegiate DECA on the college level) is an international association of students and teachers of marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business, finance, hospitality, and marketing sales and service . DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing,...
chapter. The school has a broadcast television class that produces news for the school and sports for local cable and has won many awards, one of which was the 2007 TV High School of the Year by IASB http://www.iasbonline.org/hswinners.shtml. The school's Business Professionals of America(BPA) club participates in state competitions. The school has a class that produces a school newspaper called the Artesian Herald.
Athletics
Martinsville High School is a member of the Mid-State Conference. They have recently switched from Conference IndianaConference Indiana
Conference Indiana is an athletic conference within the Indiana High School Athletic Association. CI is one four Indiana high school athletic conferences comprised exclusively of Footall Class 5A enrollment schools...
to Mid-State Conference for location reasons. All schools in Mid-State Conference are located within 25 miles of Martinsville. Most of the schools are also one school communities like Martinsville which will help to establish community rivalries.
Martinsville offers many sports for both men and women. They offer for men, boys' basketball, Boys' Tennis, Boys' Cross Country, Boys' Soccer, Boys' Swimming, Boys' Track Boys' Golf, and Baseball For women they offer, Girls' Basketball, Girls' Tennis, Girls' Soccer, Girls' Golf, Girls' Cross Country, Girls' Track, Girls' Swimming, Softball. They also offer wrestling, football, volleyball, cheerleading, gymnastics, and a variety of musical programs such as The Martinsville Marching Artesians, The Madrigal Singers, and a show choir group called Flashin' Fascination.
Indiana High School Athletic Association
Indiana High School Athletic Association
The Indiana High School Athletic Association is the arbiter of interscholastic competition among public and private high schools in the State of Indiana. It monitors a system that divides athletically-competing high schools in Indiana based on the school's enrollment. The divisions, known as...
State Champions
| Year | Sport |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Boys’ Basketball |
| 1927 | Boys’ Basketball |
| 1933 | Boys’ Basketball |
| 1991 | Girls' Golf |
| 1992 | Girls' Golf |
| 1993 | Girls' Golf |
| 1995 | Girls' Golf |
| 1996 | Girls' Golf |
| 1996 | Volleyball |
| 1996 | Girls' Basketball |
| 1997 | Girls' Golf |
| 1997 | Girls' Basketball |
| 1998 | Girls' Golf |
| 1999 | Girls' Golf |
| 2000 | Girls' Golf |
| 2005 | Softball |
| 2005 | Volleyball |
| 2006 | Softball |
| 2007 | Girls' Golf |
| 2009 | Girls' Golf |
Indiana Mr. and Miss
| Year | Individual | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Earl Haniford | Mr. Football |
| 1996 | Israel Thomspon | Mr. Football |
Notable alumni
- John R. Wooden, UCLA basketball coach. The gymnasium is named after him.
- Jerry SichtingJerry SichtingJerry Lee Sichting is a retired American basketball player in the NBA.-1972-1975:Jerry Sichting, the 6'1", 175 lb guard, attended Martinsville High School, located in Martinsville, Indiana...
, professional basketball player with the NBANational Basketball AssociationThe National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
, announcer and coach. - Bob Denton played football at Michigan State UniversityMichigan State UniversityMichigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
and then played in the National Football LeagueNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
.
External links
- Martinsville High School website
- http://mustang.doe.state.in.us/SEARCH/benchmark.cfm?subnum=1&hidden=6329&ip95=checked&istavg=checked&colobg=FFFFFF
- http://mustang.doe.state.in.us/SEARCH/benchmark.cfm?subnum=17&hidden=6329&ip95=checked&istavg=checked&colobg=FFFFFF
- http://msdadmin.scican.net/mhs/
- http://www.reporter-times.com