Glendale High School | |
Streetaddress: | 2727 South Ingram Mill, Springfield, Missouri 65804 |
City: | Springfield |
State: | Missouri |
Country: | United States |
Type: | US Public Secondary |
Established: | 1963 |
Principal: | Josh Groves |
Teaching Staff: | 69.44 (FTE) |
Ratio: | 20.49 |
Grades: | 9–12 |
Enrollment: | 1,423 (2018–19)[1] |
Mascot: | Falcon |
Conference: | Ozark Conference |
Nickname: | Falcons |
Rival: | Kickapoo High School |
Website: | http://glendale.spsk12.org/pages/GlendaleHS |
Campus: | Suburban |
Colors: | Scarlet red and Columbia blue [2] |
Free Label: | Emblem |
Glendale High School is an American high school in the southeast area of Springfield, Missouri, near U.S. Route 65. Glendale is one of five public high schools in Springfield Public Schools. In 2010, it had an enrollment of 1,416 students.
The choral students at Glendale have been selected for District, State, Regional and National Honors Choirs. In 2005, the Glendale High School Chamber Choir sang for the National American Choral Directors Convention in Los Angeles, California, and also in St. Louis, Missouri for the 2006 Southwestern Regional ACDA Convention.
Glendale's orchestra has two divisions: the freshman and advanced.
Glendale's band consists of concert, jazz, marching bands. The marching band has performed in numerous bowl parades, the most recent being the 2001 Orange Bowl Parade.
The art department is active in The Memory Project, a program where artists make portraits of underprivileged children around the world in order to foster friendship, caring, and a sense of self-worth
In May 2023 a teacher was recorded by a student using a racial slur multiple times while in class. [6] The student was suspended for using an electronic device in class although her family retained an attorney encourage SPS to reconsider its actions. The teacher who used the racial slur later resigned.