User:Kclav15/North Creek High School

Introduction
North Creek High School is a public secondary school in Bothell, Washington. It is located in Bothell's North Creek neighborhood. North Creek High School serves grades 9 through 12, in the Northern portion of the Northshore School District. The following content includes construction of the school as well as demographics, academics, athletics, clubs, and activities.

Basic Information
North Creek High School opened for grades 9 through 11 in the fall of 2017 and began serving grade 12 in the fall of 2018. NCHS is one of four general high schools in Northshore School District and was built in order to facilitate the continuously growing school district. North Creek High School offers Advanced Placement classes as well as many clubs and sports.

Construction
The construction of North Creek High School was facilitated by Dykeman Architects. The construction of the new school was initiated in response to extensive growth within the Northshore School District. The school was built on a site consisting of 61 acres with the facility itself being 250,000 square feet. The school was built with three, two story buildings that included and facilitated STEM classrooms and flexible learning areas. As well, the buildings held a common area, gymnasium, cafeteria, and a performing arts center. Construction also featured a wall-to-wall tension grid system and a versatile retractable seating system.

Other features of the school include athletic fields, parking, and landscaping as well as wet lands and rain gardens.

The projects main goal was to create a facility with a "deep green" design in order to foster a sustainable school. The large project required a heavy amount of logging and earthwork activities. With this sustainability goal in mind the school was built using sustainably sourced materials and kept in mind water and energy conservation. Other aspects of the sustainable project included an energy saving geothermal heat recovery system, a site harvested wood program, and 100kW photo-voltaic array.

== Demographics == Student enrollment for the 2019-2020 school year was 1,722

Athletics
North Creek High School has a wide variety of sports teams that participate during fall, winter, and spring as well as year-round.

Fall sports offered include crew, cross country, soccer, softball (slow pitch), swim & dive, and volleyball for girls. Boys sports offered include crew, cross country, football, gold, tennis, and water polo

Winter sports offered include basketball, gymnastics, wrestling, and unified bowling for girls. Boys sports offered include basketball, swim & dive, wrestling, and unified bowling.

Spring sports offered include badminton, crew, gold, soft-ball (fast pitch), tennis, track & field, unified soccer, and water polo for girls. Boys sports offered include baseball, crew, lacrosse, soccer, track & field, and unified soccer.

In addition Co-ed cheer is offered year round.

Academics
North Creek High School offers a variety of courses and curriculum routes for students. Programs include Advanced Placement (AP) programs, Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), Career and Technical Education (CTE), WANIC, College in High School (CHS), Running Start, and Special Education. In addition to this, the school offers specified courses for English learners, highly capable services, and departmental electives.

One of the schools stand out courses is the aviation program offered as a CTE course. The school was able to procure a $14,000 Redbird flight simulator for use in the course.

Activities
North Creek High School offers a multitude of activities for its students including clubs, Associated Student Body (ASB), Link Crew, the student store, UpRoar!, and yearbook. There are 56 active clubs for the 2021-2022 school year with more clubs coming to fruition.

Link Crew, one of the actives offered by NCHS, consists of students known as "Link Leaders" who represent the school as older members and welcome new students and incoming freshman to the school by acting as mentors and serving as an outlet for questions and guidance.

The school also contains a student store known as "The Den." The student store is connected to the business course classroom and is run by members of business related classes as well as member of the DECA club. The student store offers drinks, snacks, coffee, apparel and more and is available for students during lunches four out of the five days of weekly classes.

The school also has a literary magazine called "UpRoar!" as well as a yearbook that is put together by the yearbook club and can be purchased by students.