Clarkston High School

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Clarkston High School is a high school located in Independence Township, Michigan. It is the only high school in both the township and the Clarkston Community Schools district. The school's colors are blue and gold. Its team mascot and nickname is the Wolves. The four most recent incarnations of Clarkston High School, including the current building on Flemings Lake and Clarkston roads, are still standing.The school is 384000sqft in size and cost $56,569,952.00 upon total completion in 1999. Clarkston High School is situated on a 110acre campus that encompasses a 10,000 seat football stadium, two baseball and softball fields, eight tennis courts and an eight lane outdoor track. The inside of the school features a 1000-seat auditorium complete with stage, orchestra pit, balcony and set design center, a gymnasium capable of seating 3500 and an eight lane competition pool with seating for 500 spectators in the natatorium.The school houses nine computer labs. Each lab consists of at least twenty networked PCs. The total number of computers at the school is over 700. Each classroom is also equipped with a large television/monitor that can be used to display the screen of the teacher's computer or in-school television broadcasts. Classrooms are also equipped with digital projectors that can be connected to an instructor's computer. The media center (library) in Clarkston High School is also equipped with two connected computer labs, numerous in-library computers, networked computer workstations and multiple catalog computers to assist in finding library resources. A full-featured television broadcast studio and video editing suite is located in the center of the school building. Each morning, the studio is used to broadcast daily announcements to each of the classrooms. The school also contains multiple large group instruction rooms that are equipped with digital projection equipment.