Windsor High School (Colorado)
Windsor High School is a high school located in Windsor, Colorado, United States. The school is part of the Weld RE-4 School District. It serves about 1,600 students, and employs about 76 faculty members. Band. The school's marching band has a long history. The marching band has won Colorado Bandmasters' Association (CBA) State Competitions in 1991, 1992, 2008, and most recently in 2011. It changed its name from the "Windsor High School Marching Band" to the "Pride of Windsor Marching Band" after the victory in 2008. The band was selected to perform for President Barack  Obama's inaugural parade on January 20, 2009. The marching band has qualified for state every year in Colorado since the 1980s, never missing a single year. The band has achieved several 2nd and 3rd place finishes along with its wins, and has narrowly missed out on finals competition several times, including in 2007, 2013, 2015, and 2016.Two of these, in 2007 and 2016, were by less than a point. The band was selected to march in the 75th Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade in Hawaii on December 7, 2016, where they received the first place prize in the parade competition . The Pride of Windsor marching band has received high ratings and 1st place finishes at competitions in Colorado, Wyoming, Hawaii, Utah, and Texas, and notably won first place in its division at a USBands competition, sponsored and hosted by The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps in 2015. In 2019, the Windsor High School Wind Symphony, the school's top auditioned concert band, qualified for the CBA State Concert Band Festival for the first time in Windsor history, making it one of the top concert bands in the state. There it achieved an Excellent rating. In the 2019 marching season, the  band ended as a Semifinalist when CBA State was cancelled for 4A and 5A due to inclement weather, earning them the current highest regionals score of all time and the 3rd highest score in school history, behind 2011 and 2016's state performances. Today, the band program includes the marching band, several concert bands, a color guard and winter guard program, a competitive winter percussion program, a jazz band, chamber ensembles, student-organized small ensembles, Music Theory, and in some concerts, full symphony orchestra pieces are programmed, providing students with the opportunity to play with the orchestra program. Clubs and  organizations. Many clubs and organizations are offered at Windsor High School, some of which are listed below. Sports. Windsor offers several sports, including football, basketball, swimming, track, lacrosse, golf, and cross country. The Wizards boast 21 state championships including four earned in 2018 alone: The boys' basketball team went to state competition in 1924, and then went on to win the national competition. Their reputation as "wizards on the court," due to a journalist's description of their rapid, coordinated passing, earned Windsor its mascot: the Wizards. In 2011, they made it all the way to the state championship game  but lost to Sterling High School. In 2015, they reached the 4A Championship and defeated the Loveland Indians 35-14. The boys' soccer team went to the quarter round of state playoffs in 2010. After a record of 16 shutouts, they lost to Mullen High School. They won their conference with only one loss against rival Northridge High School. 2018 Addition and Renovation. Windsor High School was recently remodeled to include a new Innovation Center as well as updates to the other parts of the building. The school now includes space for more hands-on classes as well as meeting  current code and ADA regulations. The addition and renovation were made possible by a $104.8 million bond.