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Name
Missouri Valley High School Address
605 E Lincoln Highway Community
Rural Type
Public Principal
Deidre Drees Activities Director
Brian Knott Grades
9 to 12 School Uniforms
No Mascot
Big Reds Colors
Red and White Newspaper
The Big Reds Review Yearbook
Title Varies Website
movalleyschools.org

Missouri Valley High School is a public, co-educational

Coeducation

Mixed-sex education, also known as coeducation or co-education, is the integrated education of male and female persons in the same institution. It is the opposite of single-sex education...

 high school

High school

High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....

 of Missouri Valley Community School District

Missouri Valley Community School District

Missouri Valley Community School District is a school district in Harrison County, Iowa. Total per pupil expenditures in the Missouri Valley Community School District totals $7,115, while the state average is $7,962.-Schools in the MVCSD:...

, and serves grades nine through twelve. Missouri Valley High School is in Missouri Valley, Iowa

Missouri Valley, Iowa

Missouri Valley is a city in Harrison County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,992 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Missouri Valley's longitude and latitude coordinatesin decimal form are 41.558912, -95.893926...

. Missouri Valley's mascot is the Big Reds, and the school uses the colors red and black. The mascot most recently used has been an arrowhead, but is recently under debate.

Academics

Missouri Valley High School has about a 15:1 student / teacher ratio. There are about 300 students enrolled in Missouri Valley High.
Missouri Valley High's students took the Iowa Tests for Educational Development (ITED). In 2006, the 11th graders had 79% at or above proficient in reading, the state average being 88%. Other scores showed 76% proficiency in math, with a state average of 78%. Students that score above 40% are considered proficient on this standardized test

Standardized test

A standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a...

, which is used to compare Missouri Valley students to their national classmates.

Missouri Valley High School Clubs

• Pep Club
• Math Club
• Thespians
• Art Club
• Science Club
• Spanish Club
• FCCLA

Athletics

Missouri Valley High offers many athletics a student can be involved in. Some include Cheerleading

Cheerleading

Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...

, Dance Team, volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball 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...

, American football

American football

American 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...

, girls and boys cross country

Cross country running

Cross 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 and boys basketball

Basketball

Basketball 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...

, wrestling

Wrestling

Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

, girls and boys track & field, soccer, girls and boys golf, baseball

Baseball

Baseball 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...

, and softball

Softball

Softball 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...

 .

Fight song

Missouri Valley High's fight song is the same as the Northwestern

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

 fight song, Go U Northwestern

Go U Northwestern

The "Go U Northwestern" is one of the fight songs of Northwestern University. It was written in 1912 by Theodore Van Etten, a member of the Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band at the time...

, with some minor changes.

Lyrics

Go ye Mo. Valley, fight for victory,

With our banners waving, we will cheer you one, two, three

fight fight fight

Go ye Mo. Valley, fight for victory

fight for the fame of our great name,

Go Mo. Valley, win this game.

Go you Big Reds! Fight fight fight!