Jamestown High School (Williamsburg, Virginia)

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Jamestown High School
Address
3751 John Tyler Highway Williamsburg, Virginia, 23185, United States
Website
Official Site
Information
School district	Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools
Principal	Chuck Wagner
School type	Public high school
Grades	9–12
Language	English
Campus	Suburban
Mascot	Eagles
Colors	Green, Black, White
Founded	1997
Enrollment	1,590 (2006)
Rival Schools	Lafayette High School
Athletic Conference	Bay Rivers District Region I

Jamestown High School is a public secondary school located in James City County, Virginia, just outside Williamsburg, Virginia. It is part of Williamsburg-James City County Public Schools and is located on 3751 John Tyler Highway.

Contents 1 History 2 Demographics 3 Enrollment History 4 Athletics 5 Theatre 5.1 Directors

[edit] History

Jamestown opened in 1997, with its entire student body coming from Lafayette High School. Though the high school is located in a Williamsburg mailing address, it is named after the Jamestown Settlement, which is only a few miles away. In 2007, students from Jamestown will be moved to Warhill High School in the western part of the county.

[edit] Demographics

Jamestown High School's student body is 69% White; 23% Black; 4% Hispanic; 3% Asian; and 1% Native American.

[edit] Enrollment History

School Year	Number of Students
1997-1998	820
1998-1999	1,109
1999-2000	1,169
2000-2001	1,162
2001-2002	1,215
2002-2003	1,256
2003-2004	1,331
2004-2005	1,451
2005-2006	1,525

[edit] Athletics

The mascot is an Eagle and the sports teams currently play in the AA Bay Rivers District and Region I. Though Jamestown is only 10 years old, it has already won 17 state titles, more than double the amount of rival lafayette, which include six AA girls tennis titles from 2000-2002,2004-2005,and 2006; three AA girls swimming titles from 2000 to 2002; one AA girls soccer title in 1999; one AA golf title in 1999; two AA boys swimming titles in 2001 and 2006; one girls field hockey in 2001 one AA boys soccer title in 2001; and one AA boys cross country title in 2001.

The Eagles also defeated Maryland Signee Emery Wallace and her Hidden Valley team 58-41 to claim the AA Girls Basketball title in 2006.

[edit] Theatre

Jamestown performs two major productions every school year; a fall play and a spring musical. The first fall play ever performed was "Our Town" performed on November 25 and 26 of 1997. Jamestown's first musical was "Brigadoon" on March 25, 26, and 27, 1998. Jamestown's most recent production include November 2006's fall play 'Museum' and most recently March 2007's 'A Chorus Line'.

Fall Play Productions

• Our Town (1997)
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1998)
• Night of January 16th (1999)
• Fools (2000)
• A Night for One Acts (2001)
• Rumors (2002)
• Lilies of the Field (2003)
• Arsenic and Old Lace (2004)
• The Mousetrap (2005)
• Museum (2006)

Spring Musical Productions

• Brigadoon (1998)
• 42nd Street (1999)
• South Pacific (2000)
• Grease (2001)
• Crazy for You (2002)
• The Fantasticks (2003)
• The Music Man (2004)
• The Sound of Music (2005)
• Guys and Dolls (2006)
• A Chorus Line (2007)

[edit] Directors

Jamestown's Theatre Department has only been lead by two directors; William Snyder (1997-2006), and Beth Wigley (2006- ).

William Snyder

William Snyder directed 18 productions at Jamestown (does not include competition plays), and spent nearly a decade before at Lafayette High School. "At the age of 72, I feel like it's my time," Snyder told The Eagle Eye student newspaper. Snyder had a tendency to announce a definite and sometimes possible retirement after past spring musicals, such as The Sound of Music in 2005. In the fall of 2005, Snyder announced he would stay for another semester, and possibly another school year. He then confirmed his retirement in early 2006, Guys and Dolls being his final production.

Beth Wigley

Beth Wigley was confirmed to succeed Snyder in Spring 2006 as Jamestown's near Director of Theatre. Wigley, before transferring to Jamestown, worked 13 years as Director of School of the Arts at Bruton High School. Wigley's first production at Jamestown was 2006's fall production of Museum, a plotless production about a group of zany characters who filter in and out of a museum exhibit's last day of opening, entitled 'The Broken Silence'. Wigley is known to differ from Snyder in some aspects, by choosing fall production with larger casts to encourage students to audition, and by choosing to direct productions that do not contain the typical glitz and glamor.