2017-18 School Year Recognitions

• US News & World Report named AHS as one of the 2017 Best High Schools in the nation
• The Washington Post again named AHS as one of  "America's Most Challenging High Schools"
• Over half of Arrowhead’s students earned a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or better (honors program)
• Arrowhead's student achievement tops the list of Waukesha County High Schools on standardized assessments such as the ACT and AP Exams.
• Arrowhead received a 4-star 'Exceeds Expectations' rating on WI DPI's Wisconsin Accountability Report Card, placing AHS in the top 3-5% of 510 high schools. 
• Arrowhead team, clubs and classes facilitated 150+ community service projects during the year, totaling over 12,000 hours of volunteerism. 
• Of 28 teams that compete in a conference, 16 teams were Conference Champions. 
• Fourteen teams won their respective Sectional Championships, qualifying for state championships.
• State champion teams include girls golf, boys ski, and girls lacrosse. State Runner-up teams include boys golf, girls ski, gymnastics, and boys soccer. 
• Ten student athletes won their respective WIAA Individual Championships: Alexis Woida- gymnastics, Keegan O'Toole- wrestling, Josh Otto- wrestling, Jacob Biewer- track, Sarah Edwards/Abby Bartelson/Anna Schueth/Kayla Vogt- track relay, Lucas Farrar- swim, and Piercen Hunt- golf. 
• AHS was honored as #1 WSN Large School Division for the 11th year in a row, which is as long as the award's existence. 
• Arrowhead's Barbershop Quartet, MetaFour, is the 2018 State Champion. 
• The boys and girls golf teams were honored with the Classic 8 Conference Sportsmanship Award.
• Two of Arrowhead's Engineering Team qualified in the top five teams for the State Finals. 
• Forensics Team had many students compete in the State competition and two students moved forward to the National competition. 
• Many DECA students competed in the State competition with a school-record 17 moving onto Nationals, with three being recognized as Top 10 in the world: Natalie Purko, Jonathan Witter and Emma Hofman. 
• The Arrowhead Scholarship Foundation awarded $73,000 in college scholarships to about 80 senior students.
• Of the 575 poems, from 16 schools, submitted to the annual MPM Student Poetry Competition, three high school winners were recognized with two of them being from Arrowhead.
• National Honor Society semi-finalists included Reagan Zimmerman, Jake Wesson, Molly Teske, Samuel Cox, Owen Hunt, Greyson MacLean, Alex Vesel, and Elise Skarda.
• Among Arrowhead's graduates were 10 students who were awarded the Wisconsin Global Education Achievement Certificate and earned "Global Scholar" status. 
• Andy Freeburg was named AHS National Honor Society Teacher of the Year.
• Jim Hessler was named on of the Teen Ink magazine's Teacher of the Year. 
• Jeff Stauss was named as Division 1 Boys Soccer Coach of the Year.
• Teacher of the Year for Arrowhead, chosen by a committee of School Board, peers, and community representatives were Tom Fechter, Brenda King, and Jeremy Schlitt.
• Greg Bisbee received the President's Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Secondary Education by the Entomological Society of America. 
• Elisabeth Schueth earned the Teacher of the Year Award from the German Language and School Society of Wisconsin.
• Terri Carnell was awarded the WISN 12 Top Teacher Award for the month of May.
• Heidi Hamilton was named a Teacher of the Month through 93.3 Radio.
• Seven former AHS athletes and coaches were elected into the Arrowhead Athletic Hall of Fame.
• The annual Job Olympics were hosted at Arrowhead, who again won the competition. 
• Arrowhead loves veterans! They were supported this year through Veterans' Day Breakfast, Saturday morning coffee and donuts for vets and students, a spaghetti dinner fund-raiser for Stars & Strips Honor Flight, two AHS school board members serving on the Stars & Stripes Honor Flight's board of directors, a free showing of the Honor Flight Movie, our superintendent serving as a guardian on an Honor Flight to Washington DC,  and various student groups welcoming back veterans at the MKE airport from multiple Honor Flights. 

• Arrowhead offered more than 40 clubs/activities and 30 sports, with a total of 3,381 students (duplicated count) participated in non-athletic offerings (highest on record) and 2,120 participated in athletics (duplicated count).

2001- Kathie Mitich    & Dan Rosa