Waunakee Community High School

General Information

WAUNAKEE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL

Committed to Children * Committed to Community * Committed to Excellence

2017-2018 School Profile

(Also listed in Student Services)

Waunakee High School Recognized
Placing 1 of 447
school districts to earn a spot on
@CollegeBoard’s 8th Annual AP^®
District Honor Roll
for making access to & success
in AP courses a priority.

447 School Districts Across the U.S. and Canada Are Honored

ONE-ACT PERFORMS AT STATE

Congratulations to the cast, crew and directors of the One Act Play, Star Crossed Lovers, for their performance at State this past weekend. The performance drew a standing ovation from the crowd and earned the troupe All-State Honors. In addition, they earned an Ensemble Acting and Crew Award. Selena Harris and Dan Nassalang earned individual All-State Acting Awards. This is the second such award for Dan who earned this award his freshmen year and was nominated last year. With his second win, he is eligible for a WHSFA Hall of Fame Award. Finally, congratulations to Madeline Thompson and Olivia Foght for becoming two-time winners of the Wisconsin Thespians individual events held in conjunction with the State Theater Festival. They both have been invited to compete at the International Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska in June, 2018.

ACT & SAT SUCCESS AT WAUNAKEE

Riley Collins,Alexis Anunson, Steve Frost, Sophie Liu, Theodore Liu, Moira Shrader, Danielle Amundsen, and Colin Hensen are the only students in the history of Waunakee Community High School to achieve perfect scores on the ACT

Alex Werndli achieved the first perfect SAT score of 2400 in the history of our school

ACT scores associated with last Spring’s State-Wide ACT test were recently released and congratulations are extended to the members of the Class of 2018 for achieving a composite score of 24.31. This score represents the highest ACT score in Dane County and the sixth highest in the State behind Cedarburg 25.19 – 276 students, Waukesha Engineering Preparatory Academy 24.95 – 44 students, Brookfield Central 24.61 – 332 students, Whitefish Bay 24.56 – 241 students, and Tesla Engineering Charter School 24.36 – 39 students. Congratulations as well to the teachers in our school community at the high school as well as K-8 teachers for your tireless efforts to prepare our students to achieve at a high level on the ACT

To current 9th grader, Michael Regnier, who took the ACT Test last Spring and was recently honored by Northwestern University's Center for Talent Development at its annual award ceremony. He was one of only 2% of more than 12,000 students nationwide who qualified for this recognition.

Outstanding Young People (2016-17)

recognized by the Urban League of Madison:

Areli Salto, Arvind Rierson, Kaitlyn Wilhelms, Laura Lippitt,
Megan Guttenberg, Sophia Liu, Sydney Lincoln, Velkin Velasquez

Congratulations 2017 National Merit Scholars Semi-Finalists!
Brayden Helwig, Daniel Steinl and Sarah Woerner

Three members of the Class of 2017 have been named National Merit Semi-Finalists in the 2017 National Merit Scholarship Program which placed them in the top 16,000 students of the approximately 1.5 million high school juniors in 22,000 high schools that took the qualifying examination.

We wish them best of luck in their quest to be named
one of 7600 finalists in the spring of 2017!

2016 National Merit
Scholarship Program Students
Steven Frost, Theodore Liu,
Samantha Mitchell, Jonah Schiestle

Congratulations Class of 2016
achieving the top composite ACT score
of all schools in Dane County – 23.9

Posting the highest ACT score in Dane County is an accomplishment that the members of the Class of 2016
should take great pride in.
The High School Staff and Administration are proud of you and appreciate your efforts to excel on the ACT.

Dane County Schools ACT Composite Scores