Belton High School (Belton, Texas)

Belton High School (BHS) is a high school that serves the city of Belton, Texas, parts of Temple and Morgan's Point Resort, and the Belton Independent School District (BISD). The High school's motto is "Every Kid a Winner!". BHS is fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Texas Education Agency. A charter member of the Texas Mentor School network, BHS is noted for strong academic, sports, career studies, and fine arts programs.

chool colors and songs

The school colors are red and white with black being an unofficial accent color on school merchandise.The school song is titled "Belton High School Alma Mater" and is performed by the school band The Marching 100.

The school fight song is known as "Tigers Fight" and is set to the tune of University of Texas's "Texas Fight" but with altered lyrics.

Statistics

*BHS's population according to the last census is approximately 71% Caucasian, 17% Hispanic 8% African-American, and 2% Asian/Pacific Islander, and Other
*BHS is currently estimated to have about 2,400 students. (2007)
*The Class of 2007 was the only senior class ever to be smaller than the previous.
*The Class of 2001 was the first class to graduate more seniors than arch-rival Temple High School.

Extracurricular Athletics

Belton High School currently fields football, volleyball (girls), cross country, basketball, soccer, softball (girls), powerlifing, swimming, tennis, track, baseball, and golf teams in UIL 5A competition.

Academic Teams

Belton High School currently have a nice Academic Team in UIL 5A competition The contest are Accounting, Calculator Applications, Current Issues & Events, Literary Criticism, Mathematics, Number Sense, Ready Writing, and Social Studies, as well as a Speech and Debate team.

Marching 100

The Marching 100, is the Belton High School Band. The band is one of the best in the Area. They won the 1995-96 UIL 4A State Marching Contest, as well as winning the Central Texas Marching Contest in 2004, 2003, and many other years. The band got its name when the locals started to call it the marching 100, when there was 100 people in the band. The band is now on average 300 people. And for concert season they have four different bands, that play music based on their ability. Recently the M-100 performed for the president's daughter, Laura Bush's dinner rehearsal in Salado, Texas in May 2008.

tate Athletic Champions

*1909 State Champion Track & Field Team. This came at a time when all schools competed in one division regardless of size.
*1958 State Champion Basketball Team
*1985 State Champion Girls Golf Team
*1988 State Champion Girls Golf Team
*1994 State Champion Baseball Team

chool mascot

The school mascot is a tiger named Tigo. Most often Tigo makes appearances at pep rallies and football games. Most of the middle and elementary schools in the Belton ISD use a variation of Tigo as mascots. In 2000, staff for the school paper were at the Belton, Texas city library researching an article when they found an old Belton High year book from 1921 called "The Bronco". When this was reported in the school paper several weeks later many speculated that it was possible that the true BHS mascot was a bronco due to the fact the current name of the year book was "The Lair". However, no further evidence supporting this claim was found.

Rivalry with Temple

Belton's arch-rival is the Temple High School Wildcats. This is most visible during the yearly Belton-Temple football game. The cities of Belton and Temple in the past had years of animosity towards each other, possibly from the founding of Temple by the Santa Fe Railroad.

This spilled over onto the football field during the 20s & 30s. It was not uncommon for fights to break out between fans in the parking lot after the game. After the 1936 game this almost turned deadly. Several people were taken to the hospital and one was hospitalized with critical injuries. Given that the fights had increased in violence over the last 3 years and commerce between the two cities was starting to suffer a county judge made a decree that the two schools shall not play each other for a minimum of 50 years. The two schools would not meet again on the football field until 1995.

In general the rivalry is friendly in nature today. Custom shirts are usually printed up by both sides to mark the event. Sometimes pranks, small acts of vandalism and general shenanigans occur in the week prior to the game. Most of this is minor in nature and are perpetrated by the students involved in the games.

The first artificially-lighted football game played in the state of Texas was the 1921 Belton-Temple game played at Wildcat Field.

Censorship

*In March 2004, the school administration decided to block the site RateMyTeachers.com due to the high number of unflattering reviews being generated.
*The school's internet is monitored by Bess and blocks social networking sites; MySpace, Facebook, blog sites; Blogger, Xanga, LiveJournal, most pornographic sites, but some slide under the radar.

Criticism

*In 2003, the school's debate team was not given a budget for the fall semester in order to travel to competitions. The team was also not permitted to accept donations or raise funds for itself.

*The school has a policy which causes them to confiscate any medication not prescribed by a doctor, including over the counter products like aspirin and women's menstruation products such as Midol.

*The school year books have been known to be riddled with misspellings. Ironically, the 2004 annual has the word ACADEMICS spelled incorrectly. The 1982 year book had the misspelling "Belton High SHOOL" on the spine of the book cover.

*The 2006 Belton High School football team lost every single game of the season.

*The school has a policy of locking the bathrooms in the cafeteria to discourage students from doing drugs on campus.

*The school's policy for students caught having sex is to suspend both students for 3 days from coming to school.

*The school district has a Zero Tolerance policy regarding weapons, and certain school supplies like metal-edged rulers, metal protractors, and scissors are actually prohibited.

*The school district has a Zero Tolerance policy regarding fighting and both students regardless of the situation typically get placed in ISS (In School Suspension).

*One year book mistakenly printed "standing ovulation" instead of "standing ovation."

*The school is known for raising state average in the number of pregnant teens.

Famous graduates

*George Eads, actor from CBS's and the WB's Savannah (TV series)
*Rudy Youngblood, lead actor in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto
*Pat Seals, bass player for the band Flyleaf
*James Culpepper, drummer for the band Flyleaf
*Ramonce Taylor, former University of Texas running back
*Toby Rumfield, former Atlanta Braves Catcher

External links

* [http://www.bisd.net]
* [http://www.bisd.net/bhs/]