Center Grove High School
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Center Grove High School (colloquially known as CG) is a four star high school located in Greenwood, Indiana
, United States
. The mascot is a Trojan, as are the names of all of its sports teams. The principal, Matt Shockley (2009 State Principal of the Year), is assisted by Sandy Hillman (2010 State Assistant Principal of the Year), Amy Howie, and Tim Hudson, while Ruben DeLuna serves as Dean of Students. CGHS has a variety of clubs, programs, and sports for students to participate in.
s, and a computer & audio interface system. It is now in every classroom here and at both middle schools, and many elementary school classrooms.
Also new in 2007, the school upgraded its old online grade program from Centerpoint
to Skyward
, which still allows students and parents to keep track of grades, attendance, and other information from their computers at home. Students were also assigned new Gaggle.net school-filtered email accounts, and some teachers took advantage of the school-sponsored Epsilen online course management program.
AJ Zapp - Former first round MLB draft pick
Brad Long - "Buddy" from the movie, "Hoosiers"
Surviving the consolidation of small schools that began in the 1960s [ref needed], the school continued to expand as the population of the incorporated school district. To accommodate the population growth [ref baby boomer, suburban growth, white flight?], a series of building projects created a separate middle school and multiple elementary schools [dates]. Eventually, shifting and expansion created up to six elementary schools, as of January 2011. With the closing of West Grove Elementary and the addition of Center Grove Middle School North, there are currently five elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school in the Center Grove Community School corporation.
Greenwood, Indiana
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 36,037 people, 14,931 households, and 9,600 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,524.8 people per square mile . There were 16,042 housing units at an average density of 1,123.9 per square mile...
, United States
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. The mascot is a Trojan, as are the names of all of its sports teams. The principal, Matt Shockley (2009 State Principal of the Year), is assisted by Sandy Hillman (2010 State Assistant Principal of the Year), Amy Howie, and Tim Hudson, while Ruben DeLuna serves as Dean of Students. CGHS has a variety of clubs, programs, and sports for students to participate in.
School Format
The school operates on a block eight schedule with each class around 90 minutes long and meeting every other day. The days are based on the school's colors. Red Days consist of periods 1, 2, 3 (STaR), 4, & 5. White Days consist of periods 6, 7, 8 (STaR), 9, & 10. STaR (Students Teachers and Relationships) is the school's 30 minute prep period, replacing the IRP (individual resource period) of past years. The teacher who supervises the students during STaR is considered the homeroom teacher of the students. Lunch period takes place during period 4 and 9 of each day and are based on what area of the school that the student is in during that time. Classes begin at 7:35 each day, and in the 2007-08 school year, CGHS implemented a new system in which every Wednesday school is dismissed at 2:05PM instead of the usual 2:50PM for teacher planning and meetings, instead of having half days every so often. Passing periods between classes are 6 minutes long.Activities
Center Grove High School has a variety of different extracurricular sports and activities students can take part in throughout the year.Fall Sports
- FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
(2008 5A State Champions) - Boys TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
(2001, 2008 State Champions) - Cross CountryCross country runningCross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
- Girls GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- Girls VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
- Soccer
- Marching BandMarching bandMarching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
Winter Sports
- Boys BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
- BowlingBowlingBowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
- Girls BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
(1996 State Champions) - Girls GymnasticsGymnasticsGymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
- SwimmingSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
and DivingDivingDiving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one... - WrestlingScholastic wrestlingScholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
Spring Sports
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
- Boys GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
- Boys VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
- Girls TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
- SoftballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
(1986, 1995, 1998 3A, 2003 3A, 2009 4A State Champions) - Track and FieldAthletics (track and field)Athletics is an exclusive collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking...
(2011 Boy's State Champions) - Ultimate Frisbee
Academic Teams
- Science Olympiad
- FIRST Robotics Red Alert Team 1741
- Academic Super Bowl
Clubs
- Art Club
- Best Buddies Club
- Book Forum
- BPABusiness Professionals of AmericaBusiness Professionals of America is a career and technical student organization that is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. BPA aims to develop leadership, academic, and technological skills in the workplace among students and leaders within the community...
- Chess ClubChess clubA chess club is a club formed for the purpose of playing the board game of chess. Chess clubs provide for both informal games and timed games, often as part of an internal competition or in a league.-Organisation:...
- Club Green
- Ethnic Club
- French Club
- FCAFellowship of Christian AthletesThe Fellowship of Christian Athletes is a non-profit interdenominational Christian organization founded in 1954 and that has been based in Kansas City, Missouri since 1956. It falls within the tradition of Muscular Christianity. Although established by evangelical Protestants, the concept has...
- FEAFuture Educators AssociationThe Future Educators Association , sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa International , is a professional organization that supports students who are interested in education-related careers...
- French National Honors Society
- GSAGay-straight allianceGay–straight alliances are student organizations, found primarily in North American high schools and universities, that are intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their straight allies .-Goal:The goal of most, if not all,...
- German Club
- Hacky-Sack Club
- It's Sew Fun Club
- Japanese Club
- Japanese National Honor Society
- Key Club
- Lacrosse
- Makeup Crew
- NHSNational Honor SocietyThe National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
- Periphery
- Philanthropy Club
- Philharmonic Orchestra
- Photo Club
- Quiz Bowl Team - Brain GameBrain Game (Indiana)The Brain Game is a weekly quiz bowl show for high school students that airs on NBC-affiliate WTHR-13 in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is currently broadcast at 7 pm on Saturdays, and the host is WTHR lead meteorologist Chris Wright. It is sponsored by Westfield Insurance, which also sponsors four...
- SADD
- Science Olympiad
- Show Choir
- Spanish Club
- Spanish National Honor Society
- Speech & Debate Team
- Spell Bowl team
- Stage Crew
- Student CouncilStudent councilStudent council is a curricular or extra-curricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world. Present in most public and private K-12 school systems across the United States, Canada and Australia these bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student...
(STUGO) - Symphonic Orchestra
- Theatre Program
- Trolling Club
- Ping Pong Club
- Grissom Club
- Rock Club
Center Grove Television
Center Grove Television (commonly referred to as CGTV) is a credit-earning class which broadcasts announcements to the school daily via classroom televisions. All on air talent is directed and performed by students. Students also create the graphics and work the cameras. Center Grove television's most notable student would be Dustin Grissom, who created popular shorts (which air in between the news broadcasts) such as The Green Team Trilogy, Dusty Dinkleman, a round of marching band documentaries, and an attendance video. CGTV redesigned it's presentation in the school year of 2011-2012 with much critical acclaim.The Trojaneer
The Trojaneer is CGHS's student newspaper. The paper is written, designed, and published by students that are accepted to the class based on their journalism and/or visual design skills. The Trojaneer staff meets once every two days during class period 6. The paper is funded by advertisements sold by the students. The newspaper has also recently launched a website the Trojaneer Online.Enrollment
Center Grove High School is a public high school. As of 2007, there were 2578 students. Freshman through senior class attends the school along with students in the special services program.Recent Technology Upgrades
During the summer vacation and fall semester of 2007, approximately 25 classrooms around the school were outfitted with new, high-tech projection systems, including DVD/VCR decks, document cameraDocument camera
Document cameras, also known as image presenters, visual presenters, digital visualizers, digital overheads, and docucams, are real-time image capture devices for displaying an object to a large audience...
s, and a computer & audio interface system. It is now in every classroom here and at both middle schools, and many elementary school classrooms.
Also new in 2007, the school upgraded its old online grade program from Centerpoint
Centerpoint
Centerpoint is used in several senses:* Centerpoint , a generalization of the median to two or more dimensions-Organizations:* CenterPoint Energy, an electric and natural gas utility in the US...
to Skyward
Skyward
Skyward is a software company specializing in K–12 administrative software packages used in schools to manage and store information pertaining to Student Management, Human Resources, Financial Management, Food Service and Special Education. They are a provider of this type of software to over...
, which still allows students and parents to keep track of grades, attendance, and other information from their computers at home. Students were also assigned new Gaggle.net school-filtered email accounts, and some teachers took advantage of the school-sponsored Epsilen online course management program.
NASC Conference 2010
Center Grove High School will be the last school to host the National Association of Student Councils annual conference before the conference is made to be a hotel-only affair. Though the decision to move the conference out of schools is a controversial one to the steering committee at Center Grove, the NASC board believes it will increase attendance to the conference. Other high school groups such as Key Club International have been doing this for years and it has been quite successful. Center Grove High School won its bid to host in 2006. NASC 2010 Home PageFootball Program
The Center Grove Trojan Football team won the 2008 Indiana 5A Football State Championship. Under the leadership of coach Eric Moore, the Trojans scored 22 points in the last six minutes of the game to beat Carmel High School. This broke the state record for a largest comeback in a state championship game. Notable players on the 2008 Trojan team were: KICKER MIKE WOOD who managed to put the team on his back in their time of need, Quarterback Jordan Luallen, Running backs Luke Swift, Matt Adams, Tanner Riley, Kyle Jones, and Anthony Elias.Notable Alumni
Larry Esquivel - AuthorAJ Zapp - Former first round MLB draft pick
Brad Long - "Buddy" from the movie, "Hoosiers"
Center Grove School Corporation
- Center Grove High School
- Center Grove Middle School Central
- Center Grove Middle School North
- Center Grove Elementary School
- Maple Grove Elementary School
- Sugar Grove Elementary School
- Pleasant Grove Elementary School
- North Grove Elementary School
- West Grove Elementary School
History
A small country school building was originally established in 1884 and was erected in the center of a large grove of trees on the property at the Southeast corner of Morgantown and Stones Crossing Roads. It is generally accepted that the school owes its name to being in the center of the grove of trees or possibly in the center grove of several stands of trees. The last remaining tree stood proudly through the 1960s to the 1980s near the center of a parking lot between the south end of the high school built in the 1960s [verify] and an administrative building completed in the 1970s [verify].Surviving the consolidation of small schools that began in the 1960s [ref needed], the school continued to expand as the population of the incorporated school district. To accommodate the population growth [ref baby boomer, suburban growth, white flight?], a series of building projects created a separate middle school and multiple elementary schools [dates]. Eventually, shifting and expansion created up to six elementary schools, as of January 2011. With the closing of West Grove Elementary and the addition of Center Grove Middle School North, there are currently five elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school in the Center Grove Community School corporation.