Student Culture
The SASA student body is extremely diverse. There are students from both working class and wealthy families, and the school's racial makeup is also very mixed. SASA draws students from both the East and West sides of Saginaw city (traditionally the province of Saginaw High School and Arthur Hill High School, respectively), as well as outlying suburbs, and the cities of Bay City and Midland to name only a few.
The school's athletics programs are limited in scope, but have grown in recent years to affiliate with the Inter-State Athletic Conference/ISAC for varsity boys and girls sports in basketball and soccer and girls volleyball. For some major sports ( including American football, and baseball ), students may elect to attend SASA for the half-day program and play on their home school's team. SASA has experienced recent athletic success, with the Girls Cross Country team qualifying for the MHSAA Division 4 State Finals in their first year, 2010, as well as in 2011. Also, the Track and Field team has seen both girls and boys individually qualify for the 2012 MHSAA Outdoor Championships in the program's second season.
There are friendly rivalries between some of the concentration programs (Math/Science and Language Arts/Global Studies in particular), and students are known to have heated discussions about politics and contemporary issues, which the school encourages through its many cross-curricular activities. The school also has a "Living Arts" program, where various artists and intellectuals are invited to address the student body as a whole.During the winter holiday season, the school had a Winter Holidays Around the World (WHATW) festival, during which small student groups research the customs of a particular country, and set up a booth showcasing seasonal holidays and traditions of that country. Students are known to particularly enjoy the many regional foods that are made for the festival.
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