White Station High School
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White Station High School is a public high school in Memphis
, Tennessee
, United States
.
White Station High is a member of the Memphis City Schools
system. White Station is recognized as one of the best high schools in Memphis, as well as in all of Tennessee. Newsweek
magazine ranked White Station as #1027 in the United States and #8 in Tennessee in its 2009 (for the 2009-2010 school year) edition of America's Best High Schools. White Station High made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in 2007.
White Station is home to one of the nation's best high school boys basketball programs. The Spartans are consistently ranked among the top ten high school basketball teams by USA Today
. White Station also has a girls basketball team, soccer teams (M/F), track and field teams (M/F), a football team, a bowling team (M/F), a golf team (M/F), a volleyball team (F), cross-country teams (M/F), ultimate
teams (M/F), a swim team (Co-ed), a wrestling team (M), and a tennis team (M/F). The Lady Spartans tennis team has won the city championship for 3 consecutive years and finished as state runner up in years 2009, 2010, 2011. White Station's Lady Spartan volleyball team won the Memphis city championships in the 2006, 2007, and 2008 seasons. The Men's and Women's Cross Country teams have won the Memphis city championship for 5 consecutive years.
The Spartan football team is also consistently ranked among the top performers in Tennessee. In 2009, the Spartans won the Division 6A State Title, the highest football division in the state, under second-year coach Devin Rutherford.
White Station has a school newspaper (The Scroll), an annual yearbook (The Shield), and an art-poem book, (The Scribbler), all staffed by students. The Scribbler is also entirely art and poems submitted by students. White Station has many active clubs in areas including foreign language, mathematics, science, business, government, music, art, film, community service, and more. There is an active Student Council organization, a jazz ensemble, a swim team, Model United Nations team, a Mock Trial team, a HOSA club, and student-produced morning announcements. White Station excels in local and national competitions of all varieties. White Station students hold many of the All-West Tennessee Band, Orchestra, and Choir positions. Many students even hold spots in the All-State ensembles and Memphis Youth Symphony. They also have an extensive theater program, with a troupe from the International Thespian Society
. They are ITS Troupe 1581 and have major performances each fall, spring, and an annual one-act play festival early second semester.
White Station also has a Knowledge Bowl
team that has won 4 of the last 5 Knowledge Bowl championships. Their Mu Alpha Theta
is considered one of the best of Tennessee and have won 1st regional and 2nd state this past year. Their Mock Trial team won the Tennessee State Championship in 2009 and 2010. White Station's Science Olympiad
team consistently places well in the state, placing 3rd in the 2010 competition.
There are 20.7 students/teacher. White Station High School in 2008 had the most National Merit Scholarship semifinalists of any school in the state of Tennessee for the class of 2009. White Station had a total of 52 students recognized in the National Merit Program.
, at the Park Avenue Campus, are zoned to White Station High School.
In November 2009, the school system in which White Station is included won a grant of $90 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The gift of more than $90 million from Gates will fund plans to improve teacher effectiveness, including raising the bar for tenure and paying $6,000 incentives for high quality new teachers who stay at least four years.
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
, Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
White Station High is a member of the Memphis City Schools
Memphis City Schools
Memphis City Schools is the school district operating public schools in the city of Memphis, Tennessee. Its headquarters are in the Francis E. Coe Administration Building...
system. White Station is recognized as one of the best high schools in Memphis, as well as in all of Tennessee. Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
magazine ranked White Station as #1027 in the United States and #8 in Tennessee in its 2009 (for the 2009-2010 school year) edition of America's Best High Schools. White Station High made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in 2007.
White Station is home to one of the nation's best high school boys basketball programs. The Spartans are consistently ranked among the top ten high school basketball teams by USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
. White Station also has a girls basketball team, soccer teams (M/F), track and field teams (M/F), a football team, a bowling team (M/F), a golf team (M/F), a volleyball team (F), cross-country teams (M/F), ultimate
Ultimate (sport)
Ultimate is a sport played with a 175 gram flying disc. The object of the game is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone, similar to an end zone in American football or rugby...
teams (M/F), a swim team (Co-ed), a wrestling team (M), and a tennis team (M/F). The Lady Spartans tennis team has won the city championship for 3 consecutive years and finished as state runner up in years 2009, 2010, 2011. White Station's Lady Spartan volleyball team won the Memphis city championships in the 2006, 2007, and 2008 seasons. The Men's and Women's Cross Country teams have won the Memphis city championship for 5 consecutive years.
The Spartan football team is also consistently ranked among the top performers in Tennessee. In 2009, the Spartans won the Division 6A State Title, the highest football division in the state, under second-year coach Devin Rutherford.
White Station has a school newspaper (The Scroll), an annual yearbook (The Shield), and an art-poem book, (The Scribbler), all staffed by students. The Scribbler is also entirely art and poems submitted by students. White Station has many active clubs in areas including foreign language, mathematics, science, business, government, music, art, film, community service, and more. There is an active Student Council organization, a jazz ensemble, a swim team, Model United Nations team, a Mock Trial team, a HOSA club, and student-produced morning announcements. White Station excels in local and national competitions of all varieties. White Station students hold many of the All-West Tennessee Band, Orchestra, and Choir positions. Many students even hold spots in the All-State ensembles and Memphis Youth Symphony. They also have an extensive theater program, with a troupe from the International Thespian Society
International Thespian Society
The International Thespian Society is an honorary organization for high-school and middle-school theatre students located at more than 3,600 affiliated secondary schools across the United States, Canada, and abroad. The International Thespian Society was founded in Fairmont, West Virginia...
. They are ITS Troupe 1581 and have major performances each fall, spring, and an annual one-act play festival early second semester.
White Station also has a Knowledge Bowl
Knowledge Bowl
Knowledge Bowl is an interdisciplinary academic competition involving teams of four to six students trying to answer questions in a written round and several oral rounds. No team is eliminated in this event, and every team participates in every round...
team that has won 4 of the last 5 Knowledge Bowl championships. Their Mu Alpha Theta
Mu Alpha Theta
Mu Alpha Theta is a United States mathematics honor society for high schools and two-year colleges. It has over 89,000 student members in more than 1,800 schools worldwide. Its main goals are to inspire keen interest in mathematics, develop strong scholarship in the subject, and promote the...
is considered one of the best of Tennessee and have won 1st regional and 2nd state this past year. Their Mock Trial team won the Tennessee State Championship in 2009 and 2010. White Station's Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...
team consistently places well in the state, placing 3rd in the 2010 competition.
Demographics and Statistics
Currently there are more than 2,210 students at White Station: 43% are African American, 46% are Caucasian, 6.1% are Asian or Pacific islander, and 2.9% are Hispanic. The graduation rate hovers around 85%.There are 20.7 students/teacher. White Station High School in 2008 had the most National Merit Scholarship semifinalists of any school in the state of Tennessee for the class of 2009. White Station had a total of 52 students recognized in the National Merit Program.
Neighborhoods served
The family housing units of the University of MemphisUniversity of Memphis
The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....
, at the Park Avenue Campus, are zoned to White Station High School.
Future Development
The school began development on a new building in 2009 and is expected to be completed sometime in 2011, at which time an older building will be torn down.In November 2009, the school system in which White Station is included won a grant of $90 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The gift of more than $90 million from Gates will fund plans to improve teacher effectiveness, including raising the bar for tenure and paying $6,000 incentives for high quality new teachers who stay at least four years.
Reunion and Alumni resources
Alumni can get information about reunions, births, deaths, and keep in touch with other members by making a free profile on WhiteStationAlumni.comNotable alumni
- Matt BarberMatt BarberMatt Barber is an English film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He grew up in Hampshire, training classically as a chorister at Winchester Cathedral before receiving academic and music scholarships to Bradfield College, where he was head boy.Barber studied Classics and...
(Dance Professional and Writer) - Kathy BatesKathy BatesKathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an American actress and director.After several small roles in film and television, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery , for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe...
(Academy Award Winning Actress) - Dana BuchmanDana BuchmanDana Buchman is an upscale women's fashion brand, and its founder, Dana Buchman, an American fashion designer and creative designer of the same name. It is owned by the Liz Claiborne fashion company.-History:...
(Fashion Designer) - Cary FowlerCary FowlerCary Fowler is the executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, based in Rome, Italy. Previously, Fowler was Professor and Director of Research in the Department for International Environment & Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås, Norway. Fowler holds...
(Agriculture Scientist and Executive Director of Global Crop Diversity TrustGlobal Crop Diversity TrustGlobal Crop Diversity Trust is an independent international organization which exists to ensure the conservation and availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide...
) - Clare GrantClare Grant-Career:While at the University of Memphis she met director Craig Brewer who cast her in two indie films in Memphis before casting her in the film Black Snake Moan and later as the lead in his MTV series $5 Cover....
(Actress) - Joe Jackson (Basketball Player)
- Alan LightmanAlan LightmanAlan Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams. He was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the...
(Theoretical Physicist/Novelist) - Jake "The Snake" Roberts (Professional Wrestler)
- Dan SchneiderDan Schneider (TV producer)Daniel James "Dan" Schneider is an American songwriter, actor, writer, and producer of films and television. He is the co-president of his own production company called Schneider's Bakery....
(Actor, Writer and Producer) - Andrew VanWyngardenAndrew VanWyngardenAndrew VanWyngarden is the lead vocalist, guitar player and songwriter for the band MGMT, praised for "an uncanny knack for producing pop music that sounds as if it were filtered through a kaleidoscope"...
(Rock Musician, MGMTMGMTMGMT is an American alternative rock band founded by Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. After the release of their first album, the members of their live band, Matthew Asti, James Richardson and Will Berman, joined the core band in the studio...
) - Doug WambleDoug WambleDoug Wamble is a North American vocalist, guitarist, and composer.-Biography:...
(Guitarist, Vocalist and Composer) - Straycoughney Martha-Sue Dumpsterson-McBundt (Marine)
- John MartinJohn Martin-In the arts:*John H. Martin, American actor in TV soap operas One Life to Live and Sunset Beach*John Martin , English-born Canadian broadcaster*John Martin , dance critic at the New York Times...
(Writer, Fox Sports) - Don Gu Yen (Optician/Optical Physician, DGY Enterprises)
External links
- White Station High School's website
- White Station High School Junior ROTC
- White Station Baseball
- White Station Spartan Football (American footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
) - White Station High School Spartan Soccer