Waukesha West High School won its ninth straight title Friday at the Wisconsin Academic Decathlon in Wisconsin Dells, earning a trip to next month's national competition.
The team scored 46,428.3 points out of a possible 60,000, placed first in the Super Quiz relay and earned the top team award for all 10 featured subjects, said decathlon director Molly Ritchie.
In academic decathlon, nine student teams go head to head in a series of tests on academic subjects, interviews and essays. Each team includes three students with A-grade averages, three with B averages and three C students.
Twenty teams competed in the state competition, based on their performance at local and regional events.
New Berlin Eisenhower took third place in the overall competition and won the event's Division 2 competition, Ritchie said.
Menomonee Falls won Division 1 and placed fifth overall, she said.
Other Milwaukee-area high schools participating in the two-day competition that wrapped up Friday were Brookfield Academy, taking second in Division 4 and 10th overall; Pewaukee, third in Division 2 and eighth overall; and Waukesha South, second in Division 1 and sixth overall in its first visit to the state decathlon.
Along with its nine consecutive state championships, Waukesha West won the national title in 2002. They finished second in the nation last year.
This year's national competition is April 21-24 in Omaha, Neb.
Jesse Garza of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.