Rampart High School
Location
8250 Lexington Drive Colorado Springs, Colorado United States
Information
Type	Public high school
Established	1982
Locale	Residential area
School district	Academy 20
Principal	Bil Gierman
Assistant Principals	Kolette Back, Ken Latka, Clark Maxon, Jeremy Wirtjes
Staff	155[1]
Faculty	94[1]
Grades	9-12
Number of students	1633[1]
Color(s)	blue and gold
Athletics	CHSAA 5A
Mascot	Ram
Newspaper	The bLend
Yearbook	Rampages
Information	(719) 234-2000
Website	http://www.asd20.org/rhs

Rampart High School is located in Academy School District 20 of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Rampart opened as only the second high school in the district in 1982, and was awarded the National School of Excellence award in 1988. It is one of only 2 high schools within the district with the International Baccalaureate Programme. Its mascot is the Ram.

Contents 1 Band 2 State Champions 3 Notable alumni 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Band

Rampart High School is well known for its instrumental music program. Not only does the school have a multi-time state championship marching band, it also is home to concert band and orchestra programs. The school has, as of the 2007-2008 school year, three concert bands of differing levels, two jazz bands, and a string orchestra. It also offers a guitar class. The concert bands started attending the CBA state championships for concert band in 2007. The jazz bands attend many different jazz festivals throughout the school year, and have been doing so for many years.

Rampart's band, the Rampart Regiment, has won 1st place in state competitions two consecutive times in the 2005 - 2006 and 2006 - 2007 school years. "Rampart Band". September 2007. http://www.rampartband.net/awards/awardsSet.html. 

For the 2007-2008 school year, the band was moved up in class, from class 4A to class 5A. This was due to increase in the school's number of students, in accordance with CSHAA school size regulations. This effects which schools the band competes with in statewide CBA competition.

Rampart High has numerous rivals, most notably Air Academy and Pine Creek.

[edit] State Champions

In 1998 the Rampart High football team went undefeated en route to a 14-0 finish and a State Championship in the Class 4A defeating Sierra High School 35-14 at Memorial Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Famous Alumni Dexter Wynn was a part of all 5 Ram scores with 2 catches for touchdowns, a pass for a touchdown and 2 special teams scores. He also picked off a pass in the last 3 minutes of the game to seal the win for the Rams.

[edit] Notable alumni

• Jeff King, major league baseball player
• Andy Haase,^[2] National Football League player
• Dexter Wynn, National Football League player
• Patrick Harlan, member of the Pakkun Makkun duo as a stand up comedian and TV host in Japan
• Jefferson Bryant, noted journalist and book author, www.bryantmedia.us
• Duane Lee Chapman II , son of Duane Dog Chapman
• Leland Chapman, son of Duane Dog Chapman
• Maxwell Davis, professional fantasy sports player and all around awesome guy.
• Quinn Brown, noted Chris Paul heckler and NBA enthusiast.

[edit] See also

• Air Academy High School
• Pine Creek High School

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Rampart HS State School Accountability Report (SAR)". http://galileo.asd20.org/schools/ReportCards/rhs.pdf.  (as of 2005-2006)
2. ^ [1]

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Rampart Instrumental Music

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