Weiser High School

The Idaho Statesman counted the start of the school as 1867, when the first school in Weiser was established. In 1904, a dedicated building for the high school was built for $40,000. Renovation and expansion worth $90,000 began to be built in 1919. In 1948 it took over the former Weiser Academy/Intermountain Institute, a boarding school with of land. According to The Idaho Statesman, this meant that it was the sole high school in the state with a large property. In 1958, there were 46 students at Weiser High who lived in the Annex and Jefferson school districts. In 1965 there was a proposal for a bond to spend $1,147,000 to build a new high school, using a hexagon-style design. That year, the state was considering pulling the accreditation of the school. ==Operations==

all students register for classes in person instead of electronically. Dave Davies, the former principal, stated that this is done to give a "personal touch" to the school. The school has various dual high school-tertiary credit courses. In 2017, 121 students graduated. 40% of them went to a tertiary institution straight out of high school. ==Athletics and clubs==

The following sports are offered at Weiser High School: • Baseball (boys) • Basketball (boys and girls) • Cross Country (coed) • American football (boys) • Golf (coed) • Soccer (boys and girls) • Softball (girls) • Tennis (coed) • Track (coed) • Volleyball (girls) • Wrestling (boys and girls) State championships include: • Baseball (2021) • 3A, American football (2021) There is also a band. The band initially had female students twirling batons while the male students played instruments. By 1961, all students were playing instruments. That year, the band won third place in a contest in the Seafair Parade in Seattle, as well as first place in another competition in the same event. The Idaho Statesman described the group as "one of the top-rate organizations of its kind in the area" after the parade. ==Notable alumni==

• Donald Anderson - Idaho Supreme Court justice (1955–56) • Herman Welker - U.S. Senator from Idaho (1951–57). Class of 1924 • Roger Batzel - Director (1971–88) of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Class of 1940 • Harold Ryan - U.S. District Judge - District of Idaho (1981–95). Class of 1941. ==References==