Nathan Hale High School (Wisconsin)

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Nathan Hale High School
Type	Public secondary
Principal	Kathleen MacDonald
Assistant Principals	Andy Muszytowski, Lewis Malczewski
Faculty	146 (2006-07)
Students	1,516 (2006-07)
Grades	9–12
Location	West Allis, Wisconsin USA
Oversight	West Allis-West Milwaukee School District
Colors	Green and white
Mascot	Huskie
Yearbook	Painting Memories
Website	www.wawm.k12.wi.us

Nathan Hale High School is a public high school in West Allis, Wisconsin, located at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue and South 116th Street. It's mailing address is 11601 W. Licoln Ave., West Allis, WI 53227. The school boundaries are the City of West Allis, Village of West Milwaukee and portions of New Berlin and Greenfield. It runs on a 52 minute, 8 period, 2 semester schedule. The faculty is made of more than 100 faculty members including 5 guidance counselors and 6 administrators. NHHS offers organizations including National Honor Society, Nathan Hale Mentors, and FBLA as well as clubs like Students for Saving the Earth, Key Club, Bowling Club, Debate Team, Science Olympiad, Forensics, and Drama Club. Nathan Hale's rival is West Allis Central, their mascot being a bulldog.

Nathan Hale is known for its academic rigor, offering a variety of AP and Accelerated (more commonly known as honors) classes. It first offers its students the opputunity to take an AP class, AP World History, in their sophomore years. This class is taught by David Clarke.

At the March 29, 2007 JV Math League Team Competition in Kettle Moraine, Team 1337 took 2nd place of 16 teams, earning a trophy. Following were the Fighting Squirrels at 4th, the Kangaroos at 9th, and the Ninja Turtles at 13th. Team 1337 contained many of the same members as the trophy winning Squares, who placed 1st at both the first (Nathan Hale) and second Math Meets of the year. Math teams coach is the fabulous Mr. Jablonski (aliases including J and J-Bomb), Nathan Hale teacher of Geometry, Accelerated (Honors) Geometry, and AP Calculus.

March 31, 2007 the Nathan Hale Science Team competed in the State Science Olympiad. They placed 4th in Mystery Engineering and 6th in Designer Genes, also fighting valeintly and spectatularily in Robot Ramble, Health Science, Forensics, Sounds of Music, Experimental Design, Write It Do It, Five Star Science, Entymology (Formerly Don't Bug Me), Rocks & Minerals, Chem Lab, Food Science, Wright Stuff, Scrambler, Picture This, Fermi Questions, Oceonography, and Ecology, but defeated by the highly more science-focused schools in Madison, such as the much-hated Madison West. There coaches are Mrs. Getzel (a Science Olympiad veteran), Mrs. Xiong, and Mrs. Look for forensics. The co-captions of the 2006-2007 school year were Jackie Schultz (senior) and Andrew Chadbourn (junior, and more commonly known by his last name).