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Waseca Junior and Senior High School

high school in Waseca, Minnesota

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7971381 ↗
Source-derived summary

Waseca Junior and Senior High School (WJSH) is located in Waseca, Minnesota, United States. The school mascot is the bluejay and the school colors are blue and gold. It houses approximately 1,000 students in grades 7 through 12. They offer a rigorous curriculum which meets Minnesota standards. They also offer Post-Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) including College in the Schools and Advanced Placement courses. Jason Miller is the current principal.

Activities

There are many different activities and clubs at WJSH:

Spanish Club

FFA

Science Olympiad

National Honor Society (NHS)

Fall, Spring, and One-Act Plays

Student Council

Math Team

Marching Band

Link Crew

Chess Club

Speech Team

Ski Team

Art Club

International Thespian Society (ITS)

Business Professional of America (BPA)

Programming Club

Art Team

Show Choir

DECA

Law Team

Yearbook

Music program

Choir is a program open to all students. Concert Choir is a group of students in grades 9 through 12 and anyone can join. Select Choir is open to students in grades 10 through 12 and is an audition only group.

Showchoir is a branch of the choir program and participation requires the involvement in either Concert or Select Choir.

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The public source identifies “Waseca Junior and Senior High School” as high school in Waseca, Minnesota. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Waseca, Junior and Senior.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7971381. Authority coordinates are 44.094, -93.510. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Waseca Junior and Senior High School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.