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Green Bay Southwest High School
Green Bay Southwest High School
Address
	1331 Packerland Drive; Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin 54304; United States
Coordinates	44°31′11″N 88°05′53″W / 44.51965°N 88.098174°W
Information
School type	Public High school
Motto	Through Strength and Courage Together We Will...
School district	Green Bay Area Public Schools
Principal	Micheal Whisler
Teaching staff	63.88 (FTE)
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,069 (2023–2024)
Student to teacher ratio	16.73
Language	English
Hours in school day	Eight (8)
Color(s)	Royal blue and silver;
Slogan	Through Strength and Courage Together We Will...
Song	Our Director
Fight song	Our Director
Athletics conference	Fox River Classic Conference
Mascot	Fighting Trojan
Team name	Fighting Trojans
Rival	Green Bay Notre Dame
Newspaper	The Shield
Yearbook	The Classic
Feeder schools	Lombardi Middle School
Website	http://southwest.gbaps.org/

Green Bay Southwest High School is one of four public high schools located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Southwest High School is located at 1331 Packerland Drive. Its school colors are royal blue and silver, and their logo and mascot is the Trojan helmet.

Academics

Nearly half of Southwest's class of 2011 attended accredited four-year colleges (49%).^[4] The school offered 14 Advanced Placement courses in 2007, with 220 AP tests taken in May 2007.^[4] Overall, 31% of students participated in AP Exams in 2016.^[5] Southwest has partnered with NWTC to provide a number of Technical classes at the High School.^[6] Southwest High School was ranked #13 in Wisconsin as the best overall school by Newsweek 2013. The school made the Top 20 four years running. A collaboration with NWTC in 2012 to provide credited courses in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) provides students hands on coursework in blueprint reading; welding, and robotics. The music department is a magnet for students from neighboring schools and school districts.

Demographics

The school is 66% white, 9% Hispanic, 8% Native American, 6% black, 5% native American, and 5% of students identify as a part of two or more races.^[7]

Athletics

Southwest's athletic teams are known as the Fighting Trojans, and compete in the Fox River Classic Conference. The Trojans have won two Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association state championships, one as part of a co-op girls' hockey team in 2014, and the Division 1 girls' tennis championship in 1997.^[8]

The football stadium and track and field area is named Dahlin Family Stadium. It was renovated in 2014 to add synthetic turf.^[9] Carl Sunby Gymnasium, named after a former athletic director,^[10] has a capacity of 2000^[11] and is often used as a neutral site for WIAA basketball playoff sectionals. Additionally, Southwest has tennis courts, baseball diamonds, and an indoor swimming pool.

Notable alumni

John Anderson (1983), ESPN reporter^[12]
Lou Goss, NASCAR driver.^[13]
Natisha Hiedeman (2015), basketball player for the Israeli team Maccabi Bnot Ashdod and the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)^[14]
Andre Jacque (1999), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly^[15]
Kahlil McKenzie (attended 2011-2013), NFL and XFL defensive lineman ^[16]
Max Scharping (2014), NFL offensive lineman^[17]
Bobby Slowik, Houston Texans offensive coordinator

Health care reform meetings

Southwest High School was the site of a visit by former U.S. president Barack Obama on June 11, 2009, who led a town hall meeting about health care reform.^[18] At the request of members of the physical education and health staff at the school, he signed a wall in a health classroom.^[19]