Arrowhead High School is a high school located in Merton Town, Wisconsin (with a Hartland, Wisconsin post address). Sitting on of land, the school has two campuses, a north campus and a south campus. Juniors and seniors attend the north campus, while freshmen and sophomores attend the south campus.
Enrollment is about 2300 students at the school, which employs about 200 faculty members.
Arrowhead's athletics teams are known as the Warhawks, and its mascot, Wally, is a hawk.
History
Arrowhead High School was established in 1956 in the Hartland, Wisconsin area. The original high school is today known as South Campus. North Campus was added later following increased enrollment. Freshman and sophomores are at the South Campus, while juniors and seniors are at the North Campus.
Laura Myrah is the superintendent. In December 2022 she announced that after August 7, 2023 she will no longer be superintendent. She cited "political pressures" on K-12 schools as her reason for leaving the field.
Academics
In 2022, Newsweek ranked Arrowhead 594th in the nation out of more than 27,000 public high schools in the United States.
Arrowhead offers nearly 200 academic courses. There are honors sequences in English, mathematics, social studies, science, and art, and 17 advanced placement courses. "Transcripted credit" agreements with Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC) allow students to earn technical school credit for high school courses in areas such as engineering, automotive mechanics, technical and architectural drafting, fashion merchandising, child care, commercial art, and computer technology. In addition, students can participate in manufacturing and health apprenticeships through WCTC.
The school is equipped with technology and laboratory facilities. The high school also serves as a community center by providing concerts, lectures, athletic facilities and events, seminars, and evening classes to residents of the Lake Country area.
Attendance area
Arrowhead serves students from: The unincorporated areas of North Lake and a section of Okauchee Lake The villages of Hartland, Chenequa, Merton and Nashotah, as well as a part of Sussex Portions of the cities of Delafield and Pewaukee. All of the town of Merton, and portions of the towns of Lisbon, Delafield, and Oconomowoc.
It also includes the unincorporated areas of Monches, Colgate, and Stone Bank.
Feeder patterns
Feeder districts include: Lake Country School District, Hartland-Lakeside Joint No. 3 School District, Richmond School District, Swallow School District, North Lake School District, Merton Community School District, and Stone Bank School District.
Extracurricular activities
Broadway Bound
Broadway Bound was a competitive show choir that competed between 1982 and 1998. The school also hosted its own competition, the Broadway Bound Invitational.
Broadway Company
Broadway Company is a musical theater group at Arrowhead that puts on a fall musical and a spring production with musical/dance numbers from musicals that follow a theme. In Fall 2007, Arrowhead High School's Broadway Company presented a production of the hit musical Cats, which took first place in USA Weekend's nationwide competition for best American high school production, and was featured in the magazine's October 4, 2008 issue.
Community service
Arrowhead has a chapter of Rotary International and a chapter of the National Honor Society. These clubs perform volunteer activities for the community.
Robotics
Arrowhead has a student-lead FIRST Robotics Competition team. It has about 50 members and is divided into build, programming, and business sub-teams, each fulfilling their respective roles in order to complete the robot. They use Java as the language of their robot. They elect their leaders each year through a vote. They typically have 1 meeting a week, except during "build season" (in which they must build and program the robot in just 6 weeks), where they have around 5 meetings a week.
Junior State Of America
Arrowhead boasts one of the largest Junior State of America (JSA) chapters in the Midwest. The group of about 50 students discusses and debates political topics, holds candidate debate watch parties, and promotes awareness about current events.