Robert Service High School is a public high school serving grades 9-12 in Anchorage, Alaska, named for poet Robert Service. The school, part of the Anchorage School District, opened in 1971. The school completed partial renovation in 2005. Its school colors are green and gold and its mascot is the cougar. Service High School's principal is Lou Pondolfino. Main article: Secondary education High school is a name used in some parts of the world, and particularly in North America, to describe the last segment of compulsory education. ... Nickname: The City of Lights and Flowers Motto: BIG WILD LIFE Location in the state of Alaska Coordinates: Borough Municipality of Anchorage Government  - Mayor Mark Begich (D) Area  - City 5,079. ... Robert W. Service Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a poet born into a Scottish family while they were living in Preston, England. ... The Anchorage School District (ASD) manages all public schools within the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. ... A mascot, originally a fetish-like term for any person, animal, or thing supposed to bring luck, is now something—typically an animal or human character—used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team (the name often corresponds with the mascot... Binomial name Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) Cougar range map Synonyms Felis concolor The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as the puma or mountain lion, is a large, solitary cat found in the Americas. ...

General Information

Service High serves approximately 2000 students with about 90 teachers, with students feeding in largely from Hanshew Middle School. Each day is divided into 6 periods each 50 minutes long with six-minute passing periods and a 35-minute lunch. The class schedule does not change throughout the week, except on school assembly days, where periods are shorter in order to allow time for the assembly.

Academic Offerings

Service offers honors (for grades 9-10) and Advanced Placement (for grades 11-12) courses. Service also includes a unique school-within-a-school program, The Seminar School (TSS). A socratic-style learning program, TSS operates within 2-period block classes, with regular readings on philosophy, science, and literature. Beginning in the fall of 2005, Service High has started another school-within-a-school program, Freshman Academy, which caters exclusively to freshmen. The program is intended to curb high rates of failing among freshman by giving ninth-graders more explicit instruction on study skills and basic knowledge. Advanced Placement (AP) is the term used to describe high school classes that are taught at a college level. ...

The school news paper is the Cougarosity, and the yearbook is the Silhouette.

Alumni

NFL player and ESPN commentator Mark Schlereth is a 1984 graduate of Service. NFL logo For other uses of the abbreviation NFL, see NFL (disambiguation). ... ESPN (which formerly stood for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... Mark Schlereth (born January 25, 1966 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former NFL guard and current football analyst for ESPN on NFL Live. ...

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger is a 1986 graduate of Service. [1] Larry Sanger Lawrence Mark Larry Sanger (born July 16, 1968) was Editor-in-Chief of Nupedia and the first paid editor of its successor, Wikipedia. ...

Musician/composer Matthew Burtner, inventor of the Metasaxophone, attended Service during the mid-1980s. Dr. Matthew Burtner (born 1971 in Alaska) is a contemporary American composer. ...

Accredation

Service High School is accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges and participates in sports and extramural activities sponsored by the Alaska School Activities Association. The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) is an independent, non-profit membership organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) as the regional authority on educational quality and institutional effectiveness of higher education institutions in the seven-state Northwest... The ASAA logo. ...

External links

• Service High School official site
• Service High School Class of 1985 reunion
• Service High School Class of 1986 reunion
• Freshman Academy
• The Seminar School
• Pat Podvin's suicide