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Logan High School is a public high school in
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operated by the School District of La Crosse. Located on the city's north side, the 240,000 square foot school is situated on a 32-acre site in the La Crosse River Valley. The school is named after the street address of its original location, which had been named after General
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. La Crosse Logan consistently scores among the top high schools in the U.S. state of
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and is nationally recognized for its student academic achievements and college readiness scores. The school was visited by President
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in 2002, as part of the Department of Education's ''Tour Across America''. In 2014 '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Logan 29th among Wisconsin's high schools, earning a silver medal. As of 2022, it is ranked 79th in Wisconsin.


History

Logan High School was named after the street address of its original location on Logan Street on the North Side of La Crosse. A school had existed at that location since the 1800s, and residents referred to this school as Logan out of convenience. The street itself was named after General
John A. Logan John Alexander Logan (February 9, 1826 – December 26, 1886) was an American soldier and politician. He served in the Mexican–American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a st ...
, via a resolution passed in 1888. Logan High School has since relocated, but retains the name of its original location. Its current address, Ranger Drive, is named after the school's mascot: the Logan Rangers. This mascot was named in honor of Robert Rogers' Rangers, a British company of soldiers who fought during the
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. After the original school on Logan street burned down, a new school, officially named Logan Junior High School was constructed on the same grounds and opened in 1923. A 1928 addition to the existing junior high school added a senior high school to the same building, which then taught students from grades 7 through 12. Several other additions were made to this building, including a 1940 expansion which built on a gymnasium and an auditorium. In the following decades, several attempts were made to accommodate the school's growing student population. Two additions were made to the junior high part of the building in 1956 and again in 1964. In 1958, a second building was added onto the same property, thus separating the school between the junior high, which then taught grades 7-9, and senior high, which taught grades 10-12. Despite these efforts, the school still needed more space to accommodate all of its students. Discussions began to form a separate high school in the 1970s, and construction began in 1978 at the high school's current location on Ranger Drive. The new high school opened in 1979. The original building at Logan Street became exclusively a junior high school which remains in the same location to this day. The new school at Ranger Drive originally was a three-year high school, teaching grades 10 through 12, though in 1980 a district-wide reorganization of schools made it into a four-year high school which included grade 9. Since the completion of the original construction at Ranger Drive, there have been two classroom additions made to accommodate increases to the student body. In 1997, a further addition provided music and athletic facilities. Today, Logan High is a two-story building of about situated on a site in the La Crosse River Valley on the city's north side. Students from La Crosse's north side, partial south side,
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, Medary, and some open enrollment attendees from surrounding municipalities are served by the school. In 2005, principal Scott Mihalovic won the ''
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'' Person of the Year award stating, "Scott Mihalovic, who as principal at Logan High School provided steady leadership during a challenging period at the school." Mihalovic retired from his position in 2014 and the school's former associate principal, Deb Markos, was named the new principal. In turn, Markos retired in 2018. Since then, Walter Gnewikow Jr. has been the school's principal.


2002 presidential visit

President
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visited the school on May 8, 2002, as part of the Department of Education's ''Tour Across America'' in support of the
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. The school had been one of 25 schools selected for the tour, only some of which were visited by the president. On the same trip, President Bush visited two other schools in Wisconsin, both in
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. Logan High School had been singled out and selected for the tour because of its placement on the state's list of "High Performing, High Poverty Schools," which acknowledges schools with both test scores greater than 80% of Wisconsin's state average, and a poverty rate of at least twice the state average. Prior to his speech, the president held a roundtable discussion with select community leaders and educators from La Crosse. The president then gave an approximately 30 minute speech to the student body, educators, and other members of the community. The speech primarily focused on the No Child Left Behind Act and his administration's other education initiatives, though it also emphasized the
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and his administration's
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in response to it. Of the more than 2,000 people in attendance, nearly 1,000 were current students at Logan. Also in attendance were
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,
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, and
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. As a security measure, all attending students were required to wait in the school's gymnasium for two and a half hours before his speech began. During the visit, the school was under stringent security via the
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. Those to be in close contact with the president were required to provide their Social Security number as part of a background check, while all attendees went through metal detectors upon admission.


Demographics

In 2017, the school offered 28 core classes, 21
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courses, and 20 electives provided by 15 departments. The school then had an average class size of 24.5, facilitated by 66 teachers and 16 teacher assistants, more than 50% of whom held a
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. At that time, the school had a student body of 843 between grades 9-12. Of those students, 44.83% were eligible for the free and reduced lunch program provided by the
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. As of May, 2020, 764 students are enrolled, with a
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of 11.89. Students eligible for free or reduced lunch


Extracurricular activities


Clubs and organizations

The school has several academic clubs and teams, including:
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,
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, High Quiz Bowl and
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. There are also several entrepreneurial and business clubs, including: DECA,
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, and
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. The school has its own
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chapter.


Athletics

Sport programs provided by the school include:
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,
baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...
,
softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
,
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. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
,
track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...
,
wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...
, cross country,
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,
tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
,
powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effor ...
,
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,
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, fall
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, winter dance team,
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,
golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...
,
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,
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, and
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. The school's athletic teams compete within the Mississippi Valley Conference, sponsored by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletics Association. The school's varsity teams have been state champions in baseball twice, once in 1971 and again in 2001. The Softball team were state champions within division two in 2015. The Rangers hold a cross-city rivalry with
La Crosse Central High School La Crosse Central High School is a public high school in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Administered by the School District of La Crosse, it is located on the south side of the city. The school was established in 1907. History La Crosse Central is the ...
. The rivalry centers upon the annual game between the two schools' football teams, referred to as the Battle for the Ark, though the rivalry encompasses all sports. In 2015, the
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Foundation donated $200,000 for Logan to upgrade its football field to synthetic turf. Again in 2018, The Green Bay Packers Foundation provided the school with a $7,000 grant to upgrade its weight room.


Sister schools

* Staatliches Gymnasium Friedberg,
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,
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* Luoyang Foreign Language School,
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,
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Notable faculty

* D. Wayne Lukas, horse trainer, taught and coached at Logan *
Ruth Ann Musick Ruth Ann Musick (September 17, 1897 – July 2, 1974) was an American writer and folklorist specializing in West Virginia. She was the sister of artist Archie Musick and niece of writer John R. Musick. Biography Youth and education Born in Kirks ...
, folklorist and author, taught at Logan from 1923 to 1931


Notable alumni

* Russell G. Cleary, businessman and lawyer * Edward R. Hauser,
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professor and chairman, Meat and Animal Science *
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,
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* Doug Martin, college basketball coach *Bert Phillips, cellist and conductor *
Glen Selbo Glendon Laverne "Glen" Selbo (March 29, 1926 – May 29, 1995) was an American professional basketball and baseball player. He was a college athlete at the University of Wisconsin, Western Michigan University, and the University of Michigan, and w ...
, basketball and baseball player *
Clarence Tommerson Clarence Leonard Tommerson (April 8, 1915 – January 6, 2000) was an American football halfback in the National Football League. He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1938. Tommerson was born on April 8, 1915, in La Crosse, Wisconsin and at ...
, NFL player


See also

*
La Crosse Central High School La Crosse Central High School is a public high school in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Administered by the School District of La Crosse, it is located on the south side of the city. The school was established in 1907. History La Crosse Central is the ...
* School District of La Crosse *
List of high schools in Wisconsin Adams County * Adams-Friendship High School, Adams Ashland County * Ashland High School, Ashland * Butternut High School, Butternut * Glidden High School, Glidden * Mellen High School, Mellen Barron County * Barron High School, Barron * Cameron H ...


Notes

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