North Scott High School


North Scott High School is a four-year comprehensive high school located in Eldridge, Iowa. The school is part of the North Scott Community School District, and has an enrollment of approximately 1,000 students in grades nine through 12.
Located at 200 South First Street in Eldridge, North Scott High School draws students from several communities in northern Scott County, Iowa, including Eldridge, Dixon, Donahue, Long Grove, Maysville, McCausland, Park View, Princeton and surrounding rural areas.

History

North Scott High School was completed in 1958 at a cost of $1.2 million, and originally conceived as a junior-senior high facility. Prior to the school's opening, students living in what is now the North Scott School District completed their high school education at one of a number of area high schools – which included Clinton, Davenport, LeClaire, Wheatland or DeWitt.
Junior high students continued to attend the high school until 1975, when they were moved into the newly built North Scott Junior High School. The junior high building is located approximately one-quarter mile southwest of the high school campus.
The high school has undergone many renovations and additions during its 60-year history. A fine arts auditorium, a 900-seat venue opened in 1982; the auditorium was extensively remodeled in 2017 and 2018. The athletic lobby, cafeteria and administrative offices were also extensively remodeled twice, in 1983 and in 2015.
Other additions have included an auxiliary gymnasium, a special education wing, modern media center with computer labs and a science and music wing on the school's west end.
In August 2005, North Scott High School received an $800,000 Smaller Learning Communities Grant aimed at assisting students during their high school years.

Fine arts

Lancer Productions offers at least three shows a year with chances for students to participate on and off stage. Troupe 739 in the International Thespian Society. Lancer Productions have performed at many State and International Thespian Festivals. They have performed many plays and musicals, including Schoolhouse Rock Live, The Music Man, A Piece of My Heart, Dark of the Moon, Once Upon a Mattress, Godspell, It's a Wonderful Life, Bye Bye Birdie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Loving Lives, and The Spitfire Grill .
The music department has multiple choirs, two jazz bands, two concert bands, a pit band, a marching band and an orchestra. On February 25, 2009, it was announced that Jazz I was one of fifteen high school jazz band finalists for the 14th annual Essentially Ellington competition and festival held at Lincoln Center in New York City each May.
Several Reader's Theatre and Ensemble Acting plays received Division I ratings, the highest honor possible, in all-state competition. The school's duet act for the play "The Rabbit Hole" was selected as the best out of 800 in Iowa during the 2010 competition.

The Pit

The school's main gymnasium is referred to as "The Pit," in part due to its horseshoe arena-type shape.
The Pit underwent a major renovation in 2006, as part of a larger project to expand the girls' locker rooms.

Athletics

North Scott sports teams are known as the Lancers; their uniforms display the school's colors of scarlet and silver.
The school fields athletic teams in 19 sports, including:
North Scott does not field its own swimming program; however, swimmers from North Scott participate in a cooperative with neighboring Pleasant Valley. The school also has a cheerleading squad and a competitive dance team named the Silver Shakers.
North Scott is classified as a 4A school, according to the Iowa High School Athletic Association and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union; in sports where there are fewer divisions, the Lancers are usually in the largest class. Exceptions include football and certain girls' sports, where North Scott is a 4A school in volleyball and girls' basketball, which have five classes, and is a 2A school in girls' soccer, which has three classes. The school is a member of the 10-team Mississippi Athletic Conference, which comprises schools from the Iowa Quad Cities, along with Burlington, Clinton and Muscatine high schools.
Lancer softball teams have been to the IGHSAU-sponsored state tournament 12 times in 1987–2010, and produced five Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union Players of the Year, either overall or in their enrollment classification.
The football team won its first outright MAC championship in 2006, going undefeated during the nine-game regular season and being ranked No. 1 in the state.
The Lancer wrestling program won MAC conference titles in 2004, 2006 and 2017, and six individuals have won state championships, five of those coming since 2000.
The girls' soccer program won a state title in 2014.
In addition to individual state championships in track, girls' cross country and wrestling, the following teams have won either state titles or runner-up trophies: