North Shore Conference
The North Shore Conference is a high school athletic conference in Wisconsin. It was founded in 1985, and membership is concentrated in the northern suburbs of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. All member schools are affiliated with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
History
1985-1992
The North Shore Conference was one of three conferences formed during the realignment of high school athletic conferences in southeastern Wisconsin for the 1985-86 school year. Six members came from the Braveland Conference and four came from the disbanded Suburban Conference. Other names considered for the conference were the Heritage Conference, Lakeshore Ten and North Suburban Conference.1992-2017
Shorewood left the North Shore Conference in 1992 to take West Milwaukee's place in the Parkland Conference after the school closed its doors. In 1993, Wauwatosa East and Wauwatosa West left to become charter members of the new Woodland Conference, with Menomonee Falls moving over from the defunct Braveland Conference as a replacement. They would only last four years in the North Shore Conference and were replaced by Milwaukee Lutheran High School in 1997. Milwaukee Lutheran was in the process of joining the WIAA as part of the merger with the Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association, and was the first private high school in the conference.2017-present
Membership would stay consistent for the next twenty years before further realignment occurred. In 2017, Germantown left to join the Greater Metro Conference and Milwaukee Lutheran became a member of the Woodland Conference. They were replaced by four schools who were displaced after the dissolution of the Wisconsin Little Ten Conference: Hartford Union, Slinger, West Bend East and West Bend West. The North Shore Conference will become a seven-member loop in 2025 with the loss of Port Washington, West Bend East and West Bend West to the Glacier Trails Conference.Football-only alignment
In February 2019, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association, the WIAA released a sweeping football-only realignment for Wisconsin to commence with the 2020 football season and run on a two-year cycle. The North Shore Conference's original football group consisted of full conference members Cedarburg, Hartford Union Homestead, Nicolet, Slinger, West Bend East, West Bend West and Whitefish Bay. This alignment is set to stay in place until the 2026-2027 cycle, when West Bend East and West Bend West move to their primary conference affiliation in the Glacier Trails Conference, which is set to begin competition next year as an all-sport conference before its first football season in 2026. The two schools currently slated to replace them are Pewaukee of the Classic 8 Conference and Wisconsin Lutheran of the Woodland Conference.List of conference members
Current full members
Current associate members
Current co-operative members
Former full members
Future football-only members
Membership timeline
Full members
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Football members (since 2020)
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Membership map
Sanctioned sports
List of state champions
Fall sports
| School | Year | Division |
| Homestead | 1986 | Class A |
| Whitefish Bay | 2008 | Division 1 |
| Slinger | 2023 | Division 1 |
| School | Year | Division |
| Port Washington | 1985 | Division 2 |
| Germantown | 1998 | Division 2 |
| Homestead | 1999 | Division 1 |
| Germantown | 2003 | Division 2 |
| Homestead | 2006 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2008 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2012 | Division 2 |
| Homestead | 2015 | Division 2 |
| Homestead | 2018 | Division 2 |
| Slinger | 2024 | Division 2 |
| School | Year | Division |
| Homestead | 1987 | Single Division |
| Homestead | 1999 | Single Division |
| Homestead | 2011 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2012 | Division 1 |
| School | Year | Division |
| Cedarburg | 1989 | Single Division |
| Wauwatosa East | 1990 | Single Division |
| Cedarburg | 1991 | Single Division |
| Homestead | 1993 | Division 1 |
| Whitefish Bay | 1994 | Division 1 |
| Whitefish Bay | 1995 | Division 2 |
| Cedarburg | 1996 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 1999 | Division 1 |
| Whitefish Bay | 2015 | Division 2 |
| Whitefish Bay | 2016 | Division 2 |
| Whitefish Bay | 2017 | Division 2 |
| School | Year | Division |
| Germantown | 1992 | Division 2 |
| Germantown | 1993 | Division 2 |
| Grafton | 2004 | Division 2 |
| Grafton | 2005 | Division 2 |
| Grafton | 2013 | Division 2 |
| Grafton | 2014 | Division 2 |
| Whitefish Bay | 2024 | Division 2 |
| School | Year | Division |
| Nicolet | 1989 | Single Division |
| Nicolet | 1990 | Single Division |
| Nicolet | 1992 | Single Division |
| Nicolet | 1993 | Single Division |
| Nicolet | 1994 | Division 1 |
| Nicolet | 1995 | Division 1 |
| Whitefish Bay | 1995 | Division 2 |
| Nicolet | 1996 | Division 1 |
| Whitefish Bay | 1996 | Division 2 |
| Nicolet | 1998 | Division 1 |
| Whitefish Bay | 1998 | Division 2 |
| Nicolet | 1999 | Division 1 |
| Nicolet | 2000 | Division 1 |
| Whitefish Bay | 2005 | Division 1 |
| Whitefish Bay | 2007 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2008 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2009 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2010 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2011 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2012 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2016 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2017 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2018 | Division 1 |
| Homestead | 2019 | Division 1 |