Wasilla High School

Welcome to the official gathering place of the Wasilla High School Class of 1989… This site is maintained by our class reunion comittee… Please click on the ‘Contact Classmates’ link and update your contact information… Help us spread the word….let other classmates know about our new class website… Enjoy your visit to www.wasilla89.com!

Welcome Wasilla High School Alumni !

Wasilla High School is a public secondary school in Wasilla, Alaska, United States, serving students in grades 9 –12.

School alumni can utilize this site to reunite with old classmates and plan class reunions.

Please click on the ‘Contact Classmates’ link above and update your contact information ASAP!

2008 Maker of class reunion & family websites.

Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and Republican vice presidential nominee for the 2008 United States presidential election, attended Wasilla High.

Search our pages for reunon photos, or other images that classmates may have uploaded.

The school is part of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District, with admission based primarily on the locations of students’ homes.

Find alumni on the map locator.

Only 58% of incoming freshman graduate as seniors.

On August 29, 2008, the day John McCain announced Palin as his running mate, Wasilla decided to create T-shirts honoring Palin’s nomination.

Wasilla’s head football coach Jim Shetter was chosen to attend the National Football League’s Youth Summit in Canton, Ohio.

Wall of Fame Stories about classmates’ achievements.

According to Principal Dwight Probasco, Wasilla High School’s curriculum teaches abstinence education, although it is not abstinence-only.

In math, 42 percent of Wasilla’s students received a passing score, placing their school in third place in their district.

In reading, seventy-nine percent of Wasilla’s students received a passing score, placing their school in fifth place in their district.

The School Board President Sarah Welton said that the study was flawed and that the false impression made on others in the country would be very unfortunate.

The study was conducted by finding the difference between a class with 400 freshman students which ended up with 260 seniors four years later.

Locate your fellow classmates, and mark your city location on our map; See who lives where!

Wasilla’s dropout rate was 6.5 percent in 2006, a number that was much higher than most of the schools in the Mat-Su district.

A Johns Hopkins University study named Wasilla High School as a “dropout factory”.

Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District has an open enrollment policy and it is fairly common for students to transfer from one school to another when their parents found new jobs in other areas.

Classmates, join us here, share memories, and catch up with old friends!