Bangor High School (Bangor, Maine)

Infobox Education in the United States
name= Bangor High School


imagesize=
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streetaddress= 885 Broadway
city= Bangor
state= Maine
zipcode= 04401
coordinates= coord|44.8315|-68.7817|display=inline
url= http://www.bangorschools.net/?cat_id=282
oversight= Bangor School System
superintendent=Robert Ervin, Ed. D.
principal= Norris Nickerson
viceprincipal= Albert Mooers
Tim Reed
staff= 115 full-time teachers
fundingtype= Public
schooltype= high school
grades= 9-12
language= English
area=
communities=
feeders= William S. Cohen School
James F. Doughty School
campus= Urban
mascot= Ram [cite journal
url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_199611/ai_n8749542
accessdate= 2007-11-05
title= When first graders go to the polls
journal= Teaching Pre K-8
date= Nov/Dec 1996
last= Brountas
first= Maria]
teamname= Rams
colors= colorbox|MaroonCrimson and colorbox|#DDDDDDwhite
yearbook= "Oracle"
newspaper= "Bangor RamPage" [cite web
url= http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov+News&id=28873&v=Article-2006
accessdate= 2007-11-05
title= Governor Baldacci Meets with Bangor High School Newspaper’s Editorial Board
date= January 22, 2007
publisher= Maine.gov: Office of the Governor]
founded= 1800s
enrollment= 1383
enrollment_as_of= October 1 2007
grade9= 328
grade10= 346
grade11= 362
grade12= 347

Bangor High School, a member of the Bangor School System, is a high school in city|Bangor|Maine. It has an enrollment of about 1400 students in grades 9-12.

In 2001-2002, BHS was selected by the U.S. Department of Education as a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.

History

In 1911, the Bangor High building in Abbott Square burned down in the Great Fire of 1911. It was rebuilt in 1913 on Harlow Street, next to the Bangor Public Library. [cite web
url= http://bangorinfo.com/Focus/focus_1911_fire.html
accessdate= 2007-11-05
title= The Great Fire of 1911
publisher= BangorInfo.com
first= Ryan
last= Robbins]

ports

Bangor High School is known for its athletic teams. In 2007, Bangor High School earned state championships (Class A) in boys soccer, boys basketball, boys indoor track, boys swimming and diving, girls swimming and diving, and boys outdoor track. Fall sports at Bangor include football (varsity, freshman), cheerleading (V, JV), soccer (V, JV, F), field hockey (V, JV), cross country, and golf. Winter sports include basketball (V, JV, F), pickleball (intramural), cheerleading (V, JV), volleyball (intramural), ice hockey (V, JV), indoor track, swimming and diving, wrestling, and skiing. Spring sports include baseball (V, JV, F), softball (V, JV, F), outdoor track, and tennis.

Activities

Bangor High offers a variety of activities. The speech and debate teams win various competitions across the state during the year and send students to nationals annually. Bangor has a large number of juniors and seniors in its chapter of the National Honor Society. The Bangor High School newspaper was recognized in 2006 by Governor John Baldacci. Bangor's math team is the largest in the countryFact|date=March 2008, with about 150 students participating on six different teams. Its top team, Bangor Red does very well; it has won the Eastern Maine Math League year-long competition every year since 1995. Bangor also has a JETS team, which placed 2nd nationally in its division in 2005. Bangor's J.R.O.T.C. is not only one of the oldest in the nation, but is still exceptional today. It is known to sweep competitions held in the spring. Other clubs in Bangor High School (although not a complete list) include Amnesty International, AIDS Committee, Art Club, Gay-Straight Alliance, Shakespeare Club, Chess Team, Spanish Club, French Club, Latin Club, Chorus, Band, Orchestra, Fiddlers, Chamber Choir, Jazz Choir, Yearbook, Newspaper (The RamPage), Mosaic (Literary magazine), Academic Decathlon, Science Bowl, Envirothon, S.E.E.D, A.F.S., Key Club, Book Club, Bridge Club, Student Congress, Boys/Girls Dirigo State, Student Council, and QCC.

Miscellaneous

Peakes Auditorium is used by many groups around the city and state. Most notably, the Bangor Symphony Orchestra holds concerts there.

The school year runs from September to June. School days are 8:00 to 2:00. The day is split up into sixteen 'mods', or 20 minute blocks of time. There are five minutes between each class. Each class takes up 2 mods. Lab sciences take up 3 mods 2, 3, or 5 days a week, depending on the difficulty of the class. Most classes are 45 minutes long.

The Maine Learning Result assessments were replaced by Bangor 'OnTrack' assessments, which appear as an endorsement on a student's transcript.

Bangor High School enrolls the most students out of all the high schools in Maine.Fact|date=March 2008

Although Bangor takes students from communities lacking a high school, most of the students come from Bangor's two public middle schools: the William S. Cohen School and the James F. Doughty School, each of which enroll approximately 500 students.

Bangor High in pop culture

In the 1994 Disney movie , the goalie was identified as being a Bangor High student.

Notable Alumni

*William S. Cohen
*Matt Kinney
*Henry Payson Dowst

References

External links

* [http://www.bangorschools.net/?cat_id=282 Bangor High School]