Michigan City High School is located in Michigan City, Indiana .
8-507: Michigan City High School was formed by the merger of Rogers High School and Elston High School in 1995. Michigan City High School is located on the former campus of Rogers High School. The demographic breakdown of the 1,801 students enrolled as of the 2012-2013 school year is as follows: Michigan City High School is a member of the Duneland Athletic Conference . MCHS is a class 5A school for boys' football and
16-646: A class 4A school for all other sports, and is a member of the Indiana High School Athletic Association . Students participate in Men and Women's Soccer, Men and Women's Golf, Tennis, Swimming, Diving, Basketball, Track, Field, and Cross Country; as well as Softball, Baseball, Wrestling, Cheerleading, Football, Gymnastics, and Volleyball. In 1995, the volleyball team won the Indiana state championship. In addition, Elston High School won
24-659: The Indiana High School Athletic Association . Member schools are located in the counties of Lake , LaPorte , and Porter along Indiana's Lake Michigan shore. Each school is classified based on enrollment as 6A or 5A for football and 4A for basketball , the classes for the largest schools in Indiana. The Duneland Conference is also known for its gymnastics programs which have won a combined total of 35 state championship and state runner-up titles. In 2002, five schools - East Chicago Central High School , Elkhart Central High School , Lake Central High School , Mishawaka High School, & Penn High School - submitted proposals to join
32-567: The DAC when expansion talks began following Hobart's announcement it would leave to join the Lake Athletic Conference. Lake Central, Mishawaka and Penn were invited to join the DAC. Mishawaka, shortly followed by Penn, opted to not join the conference. These two schools cited wanting Elkhart Central and East Chicago Central to have been invited to join as well. This coupled with the extensive travel times to Lake County schools and
40-631: The MCHS Japanese department's Level 3 and 4 teams, won two state titles from the Japanese Olympiad of Indiana (JOI). This event, which tests students' knowledge of Japanese culture, history and society, was held at Valparaiso High School, attracted some 200 students from 15 high schools. Duneland Athletic Conference The Duneland Athletic Conference (DAC) is a high school athletic conference in Indiana serving eight members of
48-503: The following state titles: Boys' basketball - 1966; girls' cross country - 1993, 1994; and boys' golf - 1940. Rogers High School won state championships in girls' golf in 1981 and 1982. Michigan City High School houses Indiana's eighth largest public high school gymnasium, "The Wolves Den". The Wolves Den is also the ninth largest high school gymnasium in the United States, with a seating capacity of 7304. The original Ames Field
56-468: The heavily damaged turf. Available at Michigan City High School are: National Honor Society , Rho Kappa, Student Council, Morning Broadcasting, Tech Club, Show Choir, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Pep Band, Drama Society, Japanese Club, French Club, Spanish Club, German Club, Wolvettes Dancing, Peer Tutoring, Ping Pong Club, Wednesdays with Yarn, Science Olympiad , Quiz Bowl , Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) TEAMS , and Art Club. In March 2010,
64-481: Was home to the Michigan City White Caps from 1956 to 1959. The original multipurpose sports facility was demolished in 1995 to make room for expanded stadium. Ames Field is named after George Ames, an early businessman and mayor of Michigan City in the late 1800s. In the spring of 2009, the stadium's playing surface was replaced with artificial field turf at the price $ 718,396 in lieu of re-sodding
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