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West Warwick High School
West Warwick High School
Address
	1 Webster Knight Dr; West Warwick, Rhode Island 02893; United States
Coordinates	41°42′32″N 71°30′58″W / 41.709°N 71.516°W
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Type	public high school
Principal	Philip Solomon
Faculty	88
Enrollment	1022 (2015)
Campus type	Urban Ring
Color(s)	Black and Orange
Mascot	Wizard
Newspaper	The Magic Word
Website	[1]

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West Warwick High School is a public high school located in West Warwick, Rhode Island.^[1] The current enrollment (February 2011) is approximately 1000 students. The school mascot is the Wizard and the school colors are black and orange.

The mission of West Warwick High School is to create a caring learning community with rigorous academic and professional standards. These standards will provide students and staff with a safe and healthful, positive and personalized environment. The educational community will encourage mutual, lifelong learning so that all students and staff may achieve their full potential as productive, ethical and responsible members of the community. To that end, in recent years, the school has seen resurgence in academic prowess and rigor. Primarily, due to recent initiatives and professional development opportunities for faculty and staff, the student body has seen significant gains on state testing, specifically the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) scores for the 2010 school year. Student test scores have improved significantly, most notably 83% of WWHS students who took the NECAP test are either proficient or proficient with distinction in Reading.

Athletics

The school has a long tradition of excellence in Rhode Island Interscholastic Sports and is a member of the RI Interscholastic League (http://www.riil.org/). Most recently, the Wizard football team won the RI Division II State Championship in December 2014. Hundreds of students participate in numerous sports throughout the year.^[2]

Performing Arts

The Performing Arts, have helped to bring national status to the school in recent years. The West Warwick High School Jazz Ensemble "A" Band has won numerous awards for musical accomplishments including placing in the Finals of the Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival from 2002–2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, winning the prestigious festival in 2007 and 2014.^[3] The Concert Band and Concert Chorale have competed and won local and national awards and titles the past twenty years. Currently, the West Warwick High School Music Department is the largest in the state, with more than 600 students participating annually.

The drama department (West Warwick High School Players) produce high quality musical productions and have performed to "sell out" crowds since 2010, performing High School Musical; Footloose; Aida; Grease, Legally Blonde, In the Heights; and Big Fish. ^[4] In 2015, they were the first and only school to participate in the Connecticut High School Theater Awards, the regional division of the National High School Musical Theater Awards (NHSMTA).

Notable alumni

Frank Maznicki - Running back on Boston College 1940 Cotton Bowl Classic team and 1941 Sugar Bowl squad. Maznicki played in the NFL with the Chicago Bears and New England Patriots from 1942 to 1947; ran for 463 yards and was 65 for 69 on extra points. He was ranked as one of Rhode Island's Top 50 athletes of the 20th century by Sports Illustrated. The West Warwick High School football field is named in his honor.
Tom Garrick - Former professional basketball player and former coach of the University of Rhode Island women's basketball team.
Chuck Palumbo - Professional wrestler and builder of custom motorcycles.
Tony Maserati - Record producer and studio engineer who has worked with many mainstream artist of the 1990s and 2000s including James Brown, Mariah Carey, Destiny's Child, R. Kelly, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Puff Daddy and Tupac Shakur.

References

External links

[1] "WWHS". WWPS.

[2] "RI Interscholastic League".

[3] "Berklee HS Jazz Festival".

[4] "WWHS Players".

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 | dean_of_students=Steven Alves
 | assistant_principals=Kimberly Laliberte<br>Leah Bessette
-| enrollment = 1000
+| enrollment = 1022
-| enrollment_as_of =February 2011
+| enrollment_as_of = 2015
 | faculty = 88
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 | mascot = Wizard
 | newspaper = The Magic Word
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-| website = [http://www.ww-ps.com/education/school/school.php?sectiondetailid=70&linkid=nav-menu-container-4-54450 Website]
+| website = [http://www.westwarwickpublicschools.com/]
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-'''West Warwick High School''' is a [[Public school (government funded)|public]] [[high school]] located in [[West Warwick, Rhode Island]].<ref>{{cite web|title=WWHS|url=http://www.westwarwickpublicschools.com/education/school/school.php?sectionid=7|publisher=WWPS}}</ref> The current enrollment (February 2011) is approximately 1000 students. The mission of West Warwick High School is to create a caring learning community with rigorous academic and professional standards. These standards will provide students and staff with a safe and healthful, positive and personalized environment. The educational community will encourage mutual, lifelong learning so that all students and staff may achieve their full potential as productive, ethical and responsible members of the community. To that end, in recent years, the school has seen resurgence in academic prowess and rigor. Primarily, due to recent initiatives and professional development opportunities for faculty and staff, the student body has seen significant gains on state testing, specifically the New England Common Assessment Program ([[NECAP]]) scores for the 2010 school year. Student test scores have improved significantly, most notably 83% of WWHS students who took the NECAP test are either proficient or proficient with distinction in Reading.
+'''West Warwick High School''' is a [[Public school (government funded)|public]] [[high school]] located in [[West Warwick, Rhode Island]].<ref>{{cite web|title=WWHS|url=http://www.westwarwickpublicschools.com/education/school/school.php?sectionid=7|publisher=WWPS}}</ref> The current enrollment (February 2011) is approximately 1000 students. The school mascot is the [[Magician (fantasy)|Wizard]] and the school colors are black and orange.
+The mission of West Warwick High School is to create a caring learning community with rigorous academic and professional standards. These standards will provide students and staff with a safe and healthful, positive and personalized environment. The educational community will encourage mutual, lifelong learning so that all students and staff may achieve their full potential as productive, ethical and responsible members of the community. To that end, in recent years, the school has seen resurgence in academic prowess and rigor. Primarily, due to recent initiatives and professional development opportunities for faculty and staff, the student body has seen significant gains on state testing, specifically the New England Common Assessment Program ([[NECAP]]) scores for the 2010 school year. Student test scores have improved significantly, most notably 83% of WWHS students who took the NECAP test are either proficient or proficient with distinction in Reading.
+==Athletics==
 The school has a long tradition of excellence in [[Rhode Island]] Interscholastic Sports and is a member of the RI Interscholastic League (http://www.riil.org/). Most recently, the Wizard football team won the RI Division II State Championship in December 2014. Hundreds of students participate in numerous sports throughout the year.<ref>{{cite web|title=RI Interscholastic League|url=http://www.riil.org/}}</ref>
+==Performing Arts==
-The Arts, particularly the [[Performing Arts]], have helped to bring national status to the academic program in recent years. Specifically, the West Warwick High School Jazz Ensemble "A" Band which has won numerous awards for musical accomplishments including placing in "the Finals" of the [[Berklee College of Music]] High School [[Jazz Festival]] from 2002–2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, winning the prestigious festival in 2007 and 2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=Berklee HS Jazz Festival|url=http://berkleejazz.org/}}</ref>In addition, the Concert Band and Concert Chorale have competed and won national and international awards and titles the past twenty years.  Currently, the West Warwick High School Music Department is the largest in the state, with more than 600 students participating annually. In addition, the drama department (West Warwick Players) has produced high quality [[musical theatre|musical]] productions in [[West Warwick]] the past several years, and have performed to "sell out" crowds since 2010, performing [[High School Musical]]; [[Aida]]; [[In the Heights]]; [[Grease (musical)|Grease]]; and [[Footloose (musical)|Footloose]]. <ref>{{cite web|title=WWHS Players|url=http://www.westwarwickpublicschools.com/education/club/club.php?sectionid=847}}</ref>
+The [[Performing Arts]], have helped to bring national status to the school in recent years. The West Warwick High School Jazz Ensemble "A" Band has won numerous awards for musical accomplishments including placing in the Finals of the [[Berklee College of Music]] High School [[Jazz Festival]] from 2002–2007, 2009, 2012, 2013, winning the prestigious festival in 2007 and 2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=Berklee HS Jazz Festival|url=http://berkleejazz.org/}}</ref> The Concert Band and Concert Chorale have competed and won local and national awards and titles the past twenty years.  Currently, the West Warwick High School Music Department is the largest in the state, with more than 600 students participating annually.
-The school mascot is the [[Magician (fantasy)|Wizard]] and the school colors are black and orange.
+The drama department (West Warwick High School Players) produce high quality [[musical theatre|musical]] productions and have performed to "sell out" crowds since 2010, performing [[High School Musical]]; [[Footloose (musical)|Footloose]]; [[Aida]]; [[Grease (musical)|Grease]], [[Legally Blonde (musical)|Legally Blonde]], [[In the Heights]]; and [[Big Fish (musical)|Big Fish]]. <ref>{{cite web|title=WWHS Players|url=http://wwhsplayers.weebly.com/}}</ref>  In 2015, they were the first and only school to participate in the Connecticut High School Theater Awards, the regional division of the National High School Musical Theater Awards (NHSMTA).
 ==Notable alumni==
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