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Roosevelt High School (Seattle)

Roosevelt High School
Roosevelt High School-1.jpg
South entrance in February 2008
Address
1410 NE 66th Street
Seattle, Washington 98115
United States
Coordinates 47°40′37″N 122°18′47″W / 47.677°N 122.313°W / 47.677; -122.313Coordinates: 47°40′37″N 122°18′47″W / 47.677°N 122.313°W / 47.677; -122.313
Information
Type Public
Motto "What I am to be I am now becoming"
Established 1922, 95 years ago
Principal Brian Vance
Faculty 116
Grades 912
Enrollment 1,753
Color(s) Green & Gold            
Athletics WIAA Class 3A,
Washington Interscholastic Activities Association
Athletics conference Metro 3A Sound Division
Mascot Rough Riders
Rivals Ballard, Garfield
Newspaper The Roosevelt News
Yearbook Strenuous Life
Information (206) 252-4810
Website

Roosevelt High School (RHS) is a public secondary school located in the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Opened 95 years ago in 1922 and part of the Seattle Public Schools, Roosevelt continues to be one of the largest schools in the greater Seattle area.

The school offers a wide variety of academic courses as well as extracurricular activities. In a yearlong series of reports on RHS, NPR described it as "an above-average school in a below-average school district."

The school is named after President Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919); the school's team, the Rough Riders, is named after Roosevelt's famous military regiment. It subsequently gave its name to the Roosevelt neighborhood and nearby Roosevelt Way Northeast.

The school was designed by the Seattle School District's architect, Floyd Naramore, and constructed in 1921–22. From 2004 to 2006, the building was seismically retrofitted, modernized, and expanded while many of the school's original architectural elements were preserved. During this time classes were held in Lincoln High School. Architects for this work were Bassetti Architects.

Roosevelt High School has the only full-time drama program in the Seattle School District. Eight periods of drama are offered per day including directing, acting, technical theater, production, design, and a complete musical theater program. There are four private voice teachers, a vocal director, and a choreographer for the annual musical.


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