West Valley High School, Public high school in Fairbanks North Star, United States.
West Valley High School is a public secondary institution in Fairbanks North Star that serves students from grades 9 through 12 with a variety of academic and technical programs. The campus includes standard classroom spaces, specialized labs, and dedicated areas for career training in fields like digital technology and health sciences.
West Valley High School was designed by CCC/HOK Architects and Planners of Anchorage and was meant to open at the start of the 1976 school year. Construction delays pushed the opening back, and mandatory Saturday school days ran for three months to make up lost time. Built for 750 students, it enrolled over 1,000 in 1976–77. A major renovation completed in 2000 roughly doubled classroom space to serve up to 1,300 students.
The school's music program fields jazz, concert and symphonic bands, two orchestras, choirs and a steel drum group; students compete at the All-State Music Festival each fall and the Statewide Solo & Small Ensemble Competition each spring. In 2015–16 four orchestra members earned first-chair awards at All-State.
The campus sits on the southeast corner of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, separated from the lower campus core by the Alaska Railroad tracks, with Hutchison High School next door to the east. The grounds hold a football field and track, a soccer field and a baseball field. The two-floor building is split into three sections: classrooms, administration and library, and gymnasium.
West Valley's wrestling team won five consecutive state championships from 1987 to 1991, a run built under coaches Dave Toney and Tom Ritchie with a dual match record of 176-1-1. The program holds more state titles and individual state champions than any other sport at the school.
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