Calumet High School is located in Calumet, Michigan

Calumet, Michigan

Calumet is a village in Calumet Township, Houghton County, in the U.S. state of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, that was once at the center of the mining industry of the Upper Peninsula. Also known as Red Jacket, the village includes the Calumet Downtown Historic District, listed on the National...

 in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula

Keweenaw Peninsula

The Keweenaw Peninsula is the northern-most part of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It projects into Lake Superior and was the site of the first copper boom in the United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was roughly 43,200...

. It is part of the Public Schools of Calumet-Laurium-Keweenaw. The school mascot is the Copper King. The high school is in the same building as Washington Middle School

Washington Middle School (Calumet, Michigan)

Washington Middle School is located in Calumet, Michigan. Calumet's Washington Middle School serves grades 6–8 in the Public Schools of Calumet-Laurium-Keweenaw district. It is among the few public middle schools in Michigan to receive a distinguished GreatSchools Rating of 8 out of 10. It is...

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The school was established in 1867 during a copper

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...

 boom in the Upper Peninsula. The school itself is a product of the powerful Calumet and Hecla Mining Company

Calumet and Hecla Mining Company

The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company was a major copper-mining company based in the Michigan Copper Country. In the 19th century, the company paid out more than $72 million in shareholder dividends, more than any other mining company in the United States during that period.-History:In 1864, Edwin J...

 that once owned and operated much of Calumet. In the late 19th and early 20th century Calumet became a large, prosperous town. The population drastically went down once the mines began to close down during the 1940s and 1950s. However, enrollment has recently stabilized at 400.

Academics

Current courses of study include Academic, Engineering, Business, Tech and Trades. , Calumet High School offers five AP courses.

Extracurricular activities

• Choir
• Band
• Forensics
• Business Professionals of America
  Business Professionals of America
  Business Professionals of America is a career and technical student organization that is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. BPA aims to develop leadership, academic, and technological skills in the workplace among students and leaders within the community...
  
  
• National Honor Society
  National Honor Society
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• The Student Librarians
• Yearbook Staff
• Student Senate
• Teens Who Care
• High School Bowl
• JROTC
• Drama Club
• Pep Club
• 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....
  
   Club
• 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...
  
  Club
• Skating Team

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