The district, and therefore the high school, serves almost all of Marshalltown, Albion, and Haverhill.[2]
History
The first Marshalltown High School was located north of downtown Marshalltown on Grant Street before moving to the present Miller Middle School. In 1965, the present Marshalltown High School building opened and has experienced minor additions including a library, weightroom, auditorium and classroom wings.
The Marshalltown High School athletics facilities include both outdoor and indoor sports accommodations. The outdoor facilities include baseball, football, soccer and softball fields, as well as a track. The indoor facilities include a swimming pool, and a gymnasium, known as the "Roundhouse", which has accommodations for basketball, volleyball, wrestling, and track. All areas are served by concessions, restrooms, parking and men's and women's locker rooms.[3]
The Roundhouse was renovated in 2015 to include additional sports locker rooms and the wooden bleachers were replaced with ADA-approved plastic bleachers. The MHS swimming pool area was also renovated to include windows to be able to view from the hallway and additional pool deck space.
The Marshalltown Court Complex, consisting of twelve tennis courts and three pickleball courts, was completed in October 2020 and is used by the Boys and Girls Tennis teams.[4]
The Bobcats Sports Complex, which included a new synthetic turf field, new track, renovated bleacher and press box structure, new scoreboard and a renovated courtyard, was completed and opened in September 2023. A storm shelter, which will also include team rooms, is under construction. [5][6]
Activities
Students at Marshalltown High School have a wide array of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities to choose from, including athletics, National Honor Society, Key Club, music, speech, drama, foreign language clubs, color guard and cheer.
Athletics
Marshalltown High School sports teams are known as the Bobcats; their uniforms display the school's colors of blue and red.
The school fields athletic teams in 21 sports[7] including:
Eagle ScoutDarwin Judge, 1974 graduate of Marshalltown High School & United States Marine Corps was KIA April 29, 1975 being one of the last two Americans killed in Vietnam.
Joey Kosinski, the American television commercial and feature film director, best known for his computer graphics and computer generated imagery work. graduated from Marshalltown High School[17] in 1992. Mr. Kosinski made his big-screen directorial debut with the Disney Digital 3-D science fiction film Tron: Legacy in December 2010.
Coach Adolph Rupp began his coaching career with the Marshalltown wrestling team, leading them to a state championship during the 1925–26 school year.[18]
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^Schmidt, D.A. (2002) Iowa Pride. Xulon Press. p. 210.
^Barnes, Brooks (December 3, 2010). "Cyberspace Gamble". The New York Times. p. AR1. Retrieved December 6, 2010. Raised in Marshalltown, Iowa — population 26,000 — he [Kosinski] is quiet, polite and interested in other people's opinions in a way that is rare in moviedom's major leagues.
^Adolph Rupp: Kentucky's Basketball Baron By Russell Rice ISBN0915611988/
