Burlington High School (Vermont)
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Burlington High School is a public secondary school
located in Burlington, Vermont
. The school's mascot
is the Seahorse
, and the school's colors are blue and white. BHS replaced Edmunds High School (now Edmunds Middle School) as the primary secondary school in the Burlington school district.
, gym
nasium, music department, and auditorium
, but contains only a few classrooms. B building is occupied by foreign-language and art classrooms, with the school's library
on the first floor. C building is occupied by the English
and the history
departments, while E building is used by the mathematics
and science
departments. D building contains mostly exploratory programs, such as computer literacy, health, etc.
, alpine
, basketball
, field hockey
, hockey
, lacrosse
, baseball
, softball
, tennis
, football
, soccer, track
, and "longboat"
(Cornish pilot gig) racing.
, Spanish
, Chinese
, Latin
, and German
foreign-language programs have taken annual trips to Europe
, Peru
, or Costa Rica
, depending on the language. Burlington High School also has a Model United Nations
(MUN ) club. The MUN club has taken yearly trips to Europe.
The Drama Club has produced three annual productions, a musical, a one-act festival, and a three-act production. The one-acts are student directed.
The school also has clubs that aid in various local and international issues, including Amnesty International
, Interact Club, Eco Club, and the International Club.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
located in Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington is the largest city in the U.S. state of Vermont and the shire town of Chittenden County. Burlington lies south of the U.S.-Canadian border and some south of Montreal....
. The school's mascot
Mascot
The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...
is the Seahorse
Seahorse
Seahorses compose the fish genus Hippocampus within the family Syngnathidae, in order Syngnathiformes. Syngnathidae also includes the pipefishes. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning “sea monster”.There are nearly 50 species of seahorse...
, and the school's colors are blue and white. BHS replaced Edmunds High School (now Edmunds Middle School) as the primary secondary school in the Burlington school district.
Community service
Students of BHS are expected to complete 10 hours of community service per year, a collective amount of 40 hours over the course of their academic career with the HS. Community service fairs have been held at the school, with information about local organizations needing volunteers. A blood drive has been hosted twice a year. Donation was limited to students over the age of 17.Curriculum
Burlington High School requires the typical 24 credit load to graduate: 4 mandatory English, 3 mandatory science, 3 mandatory history, 3 mandatory maths, 2 foreign languages(including French, German, Chinese, Spanish, and Latin) 1/2 computer literacy, 1/2 career education, 1/2 health, 1 and 1/2 gyms, and 1 art or music (including band, chorus, clay, metals, and others). After these requirements have been completed, students are left with 5 elective credits to choose, which can span any of the aforementioned subjects.Campus
Burlington High School is composed of 5 main buildings, labeled A,B,C,D, and E. There is also an F building, which contains Burlington Technical Center (BTC), a regional technical center that is attended by high school students from other towns around the county. A building is the largest; it houses the school's cafeteriaCafeteria
A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...
, gym
Gym
The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, that mean a locality for both physical and intellectual education of young men...
nasium, music department, and auditorium
Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.- Etymology :...
, but contains only a few classrooms. B building is occupied by foreign-language and art classrooms, with the school's library
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
on the first floor. C building is occupied by the English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and the history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
departments, while E building is used by the mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
departments. D building contains mostly exploratory programs, such as computer literacy, health, etc.
Sports
The sports teams include cross countryCross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, alpine
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, hockey
Hockey
Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
, lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, soccer, track
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, and "longboat"
Cornish pilot gig
The Cornish pilot gig is a six-oared rowing boat, built of Cornish narrow leaf elm, long with a beam of four feet ten inches.It is recognised as one of the first shore-based lifeboats that went to vessels in distress, with recorded rescues going back as far as the late 17th century.The original...
(Cornish pilot gig) racing.
Recognition
- The basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
team won the Division 1 state championship in 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2008.- In 2007-8 they won all 24 games, the first Division I team in Vermont to have a perfect season in 25 years.
- The team had a 37 game winning streak as of January 2009. The team was 59-2 since fall 2006. The only losses were to RiceRice Memorial High SchoolRice Memorial High School is a coeducational Roman Catholic secondary school in South Burlington, Vermont. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington. It serves students throughout Northern and Central Vermont...
. Rice's 6 losses in the same timeframe have been in games with BHS.
- The boy's tennis team won the Div. 1 championship in 1998, 1999, 2005 and 2006.
- Boys' baseball Division I state champions 1966, 1969, 1979, 1983, 1984
- Football Division I 1967 and 1970.
- The football team won the Div. 2 state championship in 1964, 1974, 1999 and 2006
- Lacrosse won the Div. 2 title in 2007
- Boys soccer Division I 1996, 1997 and 2008
- Boys tennis Division I 1972, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006
- Girls tennis Division I 1979 and 1980
- Girls Division I soccer state champions 2008
- Boys Indoor Track Division 1 state indoor track champions, Winter 2009
- Boys Outdoor Track Division 1 state indoor track champions, Spring 2009
- Boys Division 1 Hockey won the state championship in 1985 and 1998.
- Boys Ski Team won several state championships and were New England Champions in 1972.
- Boys Cross-Country Team went undefeated 72-0 in regular season meets over several years in the early 1970s.
Other Extra-Curricular
The FrenchFrench language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
, Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
, and German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
foreign-language programs have taken annual trips to Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
, or Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
, depending on the language. Burlington High School also has a Model United Nations
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....
(MUN ) club. The MUN club has taken yearly trips to Europe.
The Drama Club has produced three annual productions, a musical, a one-act festival, and a three-act production. The one-acts are student directed.
The school also has clubs that aid in various local and international issues, including Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
, Interact Club, Eco Club, and the International Club.
Notable alumni
- Grace CoolidgeGrace CoolidgeGrace Anna Goodhue Coolidge was the wife of Calvin Coolidge and First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929.-Biography:...
1898, First Lady of the United StatesFirst Lady of the United StatesFirst Lady of the United States is the title of the hostess of the White House. Because this position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, the title is most often applied to the wife of a sitting president. The current first lady is Michelle Obama.-Current:The... - Doug RacineDoug RacineDouglas A. Racine , is current Vermont Secretary of Human Services, a former Vermont State Senator and was the 77th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. He is a Democrat. Racine was a candidate for the 2010 Democratic nomination for Governor of Vermont. He previously ran for governor in 2002, but...
1970, current state senator, former lieutenant governor of Vermont - Jessica SeinfeldJessica SeinfeldJessica Seinfeld is the wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld, author of two cookbooks about preparing food for children and the whole family, and founder of Baby Buggy, a New York City Charitable organization that provides essential gear, clothing and products for families in need throughout the five...
1991, author