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Sitka High School

Sitka High School (abbreviated SHS) is the principal high school for the Southeast Alaskan community of Sitka and the Sitka School District.

The school's student body is primarily composed of Alaskan Native, Asian-Pacific Islander and white students.

Four Advanced Placement courses are offered: AP Statistics, AP Language and Composition, AP Calculus, AP Literature (offered biannually) and AP Human Geography.

Sondra Lundvick is the current principal.

Sitka High School's sports teams are known as the Sitka Wolves with female teams sometimes known as the Lady Wolves. All teams compete at the 3A level of interscholastic competition in Alaska (as dictated by the Alaska School Activities Association), the second highest level of competition available in the state for schools with an enrollment less than 400.

SHS's traditionally most successful sports are softball, baseball, swimming, and wrestling, with the former two claiming state championships in the 2004–2005 school year and with baseball and swimming claiming championships in the 2005–2006 school year. In the 2006–2007 school year, boys' swimming claimed another state championship and the Wolves baseball three-peated, winning their state for the third time in a row. Sitka has also claimed 3 more state titles at the 4A-level in the years 2014, 2017 and 2025. In the past three years, Sitka High School has won the Region V 4A Wrestling championships twice.

SHS is also renowned for its competitive drama, debate, and forensics (DDF) team, which has multiple state championships under its belt, including a forensics state championship in 2005–2006, 2008–2009, and 2009–2010, starting in 2016 and continuing to 2024 the Sitka High DDF team, has gone undefeated. Sitka High is also known for its music program and jazz band, which has taken awards at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival and Columbia Basin Jazz Festival.

Sitka High's traditional rivals consist of the boarding school Mt. Edgecumbe High School, which is also located in Sitka (across the O'Connell Bridge on Japonski Island), and its 4A southeast rivals Juneau-Douglas High School and Ketchikan High School. However, the recent change to 3A means the Juneau-Douglas Bears and the Ketchikan Kings no longer compete against the Sitka Wolves for regional and state titles.

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