We are the Lanier Longhorns!

LONGHORN LEGACIES

2011-2012

FACTS and FIGURES

FACTS AND FIGURES

1130

Students

112Graduate

s

~65%

Graduation

Rate

UP 5% from 2011!

Community Service

3150

Senior Community

Service Hours

16Seniors received

cords

22Seniors received

seals

3150

16 22

Staff and Student Charities

$7000+ Donated

70%Participati

on United

Way Campaign

$3000+

Holiday Hope Fund (Care Team)

$300

0Relay for

Life

EOCT TESTING Mathematics II

Passing

12% US History

Passing 4% Mathematics I

Passing 3%

American Lit and Composition Exceeds 12% Passing 6%

9th Lit & Comp Exceeds 2 %

Biology Exceeds 8%

GHSWT: Exceeds 4%

GATEWAY

Science Mean Score – 530 76% Pass Rate

Up 16% from SC Content in 2011

8% Exceeds up from 1% in 2011

12th overall in District

Social Studies Mean Score – 546 83% Pass Rate 18% Exceeds

Up from 1% in 2011 11th overall in

District

PSAT

10th Grade Results – 9th Overall in the District!

Legacies…

ACADEMICS

Literacy

“The students showed amazing writing, organizational, analytical, and public speaking skills. Most of all, they had a blast doing it!”

Mr. Cross’s 9th Honors and Gifted Language Arts classes participated in Competitive Persuasive Debates on the LHS theatre stage with evidence documents they created!

Foreign Language: French

The Results are in for the 2012 National Language Exams in French!

Student NameRank GA

Rank Natio

nLeve

l

Ji Hee Min (9th) 9 9 1

Thanh Nugyen (9th) 10 10 1

Gabriela Matos (10th) 5 6 2

Kevin Menses (10th) 6 7 2

Rachel Konovalova (11th)

7 10 3

Nearly a thousand students participated in each level in the State of Georgia alone.  Our students did a phenomenal job!

Foreign Language: French

Congratulations to Gabriela Matos, Angelica Matos, and Kevin Menesis!

These students competed in the annual FLAG (Foreign Language Association of Georgia)spoken language competition having a 10 minute conversation with a judge.

Student Honors

Legacies…

ARTS

MUSICORCHESTRA CHORUS All State Orchestra:

Allison Song- 2nd Chair

Georgia Honor Orchestra: Jonathan Lee

All State Chorus: Ginny Lee Oliver Joy Owolabi Angie Swift

MUSICBAND 1st FULL Marching Band Show in

Uniform Straight SUPERIOR ratings at the

GMEA State Music Festival

ARTPicture of longhorn mural (what’s finished)

Thanks NAHS for the mural in our front lobby!

SHINING STARSDream Art Contest Winner:

Song Choi

1st Place at the Shuttersense Photo Exhibition: Alex PierceKiana McCalla also won two 1st place in difference categories.

Technology Achievements

FLARE Solar Car competition - we took 3rd place in the Second Annual FLARE Solar Competition hosted by GCPS.

Lanier High was selected by Georgia Tech to participate in a National Science Foundation grant to promote computing using music technology in January 2013.

Center for Design & Technology

CDAT and Lanier were awarded a $40,000 grant from the Motorola Solutions Foundation to grow and improve the project-based learning environment.

2 CDAT Sophomores were County Finalists for the Governor's Honors Program

3 of our CDAT Sophomores took 3rd place at StartupCamp Atlanta, an event for predominantly college-age and adult technologists, inventing a technology product in one weekend at SPSU.

Center for Design & Technology 3 CDAT 9th graders won "Best

Implementation" for a mobile website in the "Technology Association of Georgia Webchallenge"

Test results for CDAT were excellent. One particular point of pride was the 100% passing rate, and 56% Exceeds rate on the 9th grade Language Arts EOCT

Mr. Reilly was invited to speak at Autodesk University in Las Vegas, regarding the unique use of their software to teach core academics in the CDAT environment.

Media Festival

30 submissions to the Gwinnett Media Festival

10 went on the State level

2 were sent on to the International Media Festival and we are awaiting results!

Legacies…

SPORTS

FOOTBALL

9th Grade:UNDEFEATED

VARSITY:Won 5 more games than in 2010.

BASKETBALL:

Lady Longhorns

WON 10 games( that’s 9 more than last

year!) Beat the #1 team in the

region, Oconee, at Senior Night!

Shelby Threlkeld was the team’s 1st All-Region and 1st All-Gwinnett County

player!

BASKETBALL:Longhorn Men

13 wins...8 more than last season

Qualified for Region Tournament

Runner-Up in the Longhorn Holiday Classic

#1 in defensive statistics for Region 8-AAA

MJ Bryant was the team’s 1st All-Region

player, received Honorable Mention for

All-County, and received a scholarship to play at Oglethorpe

University!

BASEBALL

The Varsity Team won 11 more games than last season, advancing to the state playoffs vs. State Runner-up Ringgold High School!

SOFTBALL

4 All-Region Players

Hannah Coursey made the All-County team

New Record of 9-18!

VOLLEYBALL

Varsity placed 5th in Area 3 players made the All-Area 1st and 2nd teams JV made 2nd place in the County Silver

Division 2012 was the 1st year of the 9th grade

program at Lanier High School!

SWIM AND DIVE

100% of our 1st time divers made it to county!

CROSS COUNTRYBOYS

The boys placed 8th out of 13 teams! Ervin Martinez placed 25th in the boys varsity race.

GIRLSThe girls placed 7th out of 11 teams!. Marly Alcide placed 21st in the varsity race.

Chauncy West was a State Qualifier and Area Champion

WRESTLING

SOCCER: BOYS

Roman Flores made the second team - all region

Cullen Moss made the all-county team

SOCCER: GIRLS

The team was in the AAA division.

Earned 4 more wins Tori Wyant scored

the most goals in a season

Alli Raez made 168 saves

Maddi Corley had the most assists in a season.

YOU GO GIRLS!

TENNIS

BOYSWon 13 more games than in 2010.(just one away from STATE! )

GIRLSWon 10 more games than in 2010.Entered the 1st round of the STATE TOURNAMENT

GOLFLonghorns of

the LinksThe young team recorded many personal best rounds with their awesome pace setters and young talent.

Golfin’ Lady Longhorns

Registered an on the road victory against Lakeview Academy, and made it to the Region Tournament!

TRACK and FIELD

BOYSHad FOUR state participants:TJ TaylorSpencer MendozaErvin MartinezPablo Berrios

GIRLSFor the first time we had five girls to participate in the 3A State Championships!

LONGHORN SPIRIT

The LHS Competitive Cheer Team placed 12th in the State co-ed division.

By the way, co-ed consists of teams from 5-A, 4-A, 3-A,

2-A, and 1-A schools!

SPECIAL OLYMPICS

Our boys made 3rd, 4th, and 5th place finishes in their events. They truly represented our school with class and a winner’s spirit!

Thank you General Education volunteers, you were great!

Legacies…

CLUBS

CLUBS

SPANISHDIVERSITY They had a very

successful NO PLACE FOR HATE Week

Won the V103 Highlight Nice Award!

Due to the hard work of the club members and their fund raisers, they have balanced funds, and will be able to do more fun activities this year!!

GOOD JOB!

CHINESE CLUBMembers enjoyed the experiences of being exposed to the culture, traditions, the language—mandarin, calligraphy, cuisine, etc. of the rising power -- China. They also had some hands-on experiences.

Club members are making Chinese pot-stickers, the main food for the spring festival (the biggest holiday in china), commonly called jiaozi 饺子 .

DANCE TEAM

Members participated in dance team and gained confidence to try out for other opportunities including plays, drama productions, tennis, etc. Very shy and timid students came out of their shells!

Teacher’s Reflections

“I am pleased with my students’

Gateway and EOCT scores.”-Mrs. Parlato

“We had 100%

passing (58%

exceeds and 42%

meets) in CDAT on

the 9th grade LA

EOCT!”

- Mrs. Haddock

“I would say an accomplishment

for me was incorporation varied

ways of teaching, questioning,

and reviewing than before such

as group work, discovery tasks,

and involved review games.

Results were better when

assessed after a section as

opposed to waiting until the end

of the year!”

- Mrs. Barnes

“One accomplishment

for me, was to finally

have completed my certificationthrough TeachGwinnett

May of 2012. I had to

have worked as a teacher for 5full years here in

Georgia to complete

the certification and I

completedthis, May of 2012.”- Mrs. Hernandez

Congratulations to all our Longhorn Achievers!