Fishers High School is the second high school in Hamilton Southeastern Schools

Hamilton Southeastern Schools

Hamilton Southeastern School District is the primary school system for students living in Fishers, Indiana and portions of neighboring Noblesville, Indiana. The district consists of twelve elementary schools , three intermediate schools , three junior high schools , and two high schools...

 in Fishers, Indiana

Fishers, Indiana

Fishers is a town located in Fall Creek and Delaware townships, Hamilton County, Indiana, with a population of 76,794, according to the 2010 census. A suburb of Indianapolis, Fishers has grown rapidly in recent decades: about 350 people lived there in 1963, 2,000 in 1980, and only 7,200 as recently...

. The student count for the 2011-2012 year is 2,206. Fishers High School has been approved by the International Baccalaureate Organization

International Baccalaureate Organization

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 as an IB World School, and began offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in the fall of 2007. The Fishers High School mascot is a tiger. The Tigers' athletic teams participate in the Hoosier Crossroads Conference

Hoosier Crossroads Conference

The Hoosier Crossroads Conference is a member conference of the Indiana High School Athletic Association. Teams first competed in the conference in the 2000-2001 school year...

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Fishers High School runs on a traditional schedule with seven classes per day beginning at 7:40 am and ending at 2:55 pm. There are 7-minute passing periods between classes, and three 30-minute lunch periods during 4th period. In addition, there is a Student Mentor and Resource Time (SMaRT) period every other Tuesday after third period, which serves as a special information period for freshmen and a study hall for upperclassmen.

History

The original Fishers High School was located at Lantern Road and 116th Street where the current Fishers Elementary School stands, but the school was demolished in 1969 after the opening of Hamilton Southeastern High School

Hamilton Southeastern High School

Hamilton Southeastern High School is a four-star, Blue Ribbon public high school in Fishers, Indiana, a town north of Indianapolis. It is a part of the Hamilton Southeastern School District...

. In 2003, the current school opened as a freshman campus but, in 2007, the school opened a second wing which allowed for grades 9-12 to occupy the building. For the 2010-2011 school year, a 500 student expansion was constructed, connecting the A, B, and D hallways. Despite this expansion, there continues to be inadequate room for all of the coming year's freshmen classes, resulting in the use of portable classrooms

Portable classroom

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School Academic Awards

• The Fishers High School Spellbowl team placed 4th in the state of Indiana after the Indiana Academic Spellbowl State Championship on November 10, 2007.
• The Fishers High School Destination Imagination
  Destination ImagiNation
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   team placed second at Destination Imagination's Regional Tournament in the Switching TraDItions improvisational competition, moving them on to the state competition in InDIana, it then placed fourth overall at State.
• The Fishers High School Quiz Bowl team was a finalist at the National Academic Championships Tournament and became runner-up at the Cardinal Quiz Bowl Tournament in 2007. They won the Cardinal Quiz Bowl Tournament in 2008 and placed third at the White River Academic League Tournament.
• Fishers High School's student created assignment notebook was placed in a statewide competition, and made it to the top 8 in the state of Indiana. The assignment notebook was designed by Senior Ross Shafer.
• The Fishers High School We the People team placed 4th at state after receiving a wild card to state in its first year
• The Fishers High School all girls advanced show choir, Silver Sound, Placed first in the Lawrence Show Choir Competition in 2010.
• The Fishers High School show choir, Silver Steak, placed first at the Mooresville High School Invitational in February 2009.
• The Speech Team placed first at sectionals in 2009, as well as sending 9 participants to Nationals in Birmingham, Alabama.

Fishers High School Athletics

Fishers participates in sports under IHSAA

Indiana High School Athletic Association

The Indiana High School Athletic Association is the arbiter of interscholastic competition among public and private high schools in the State of Indiana. It monitors a system that divides athletically-competing high schools in Indiana based on the school's enrollment. The divisions, known as...

 regulations and in IHSAA state rankings and tournaments. Currently, the school athletic directors are Jim Brown and Jon Miles.

School Athletic Awards

• The Fishers High School Football team won the 2010 IHSAA 5A State Championship.
• The Fishers High School Cross Country team won the 2007 IHSAA State Championship.
• The Fishers High School Cross Country team placed 5th in 2008 IHSAA state.
• The Fishers High School Cross Country team placed 7th in 2006 IHSAA state.
• Competition Varsity Cheerleading won state in 2006.
• The Fishers hockey team, which includes members from both Fishers High School and Hamilton Southeastern High School
  Hamilton Southeastern High School
  Hamilton Southeastern High School is a four-star, Blue Ribbon public high school in Fishers, Indiana, a town north of Indianapolis. It is a part of the Hamilton Southeastern School District...
  
  , won runner-up in State for 2008 and won State in 2006, 2009, and 2010 for 5a.
• The Fishers High School marching band received a gold award at ISSMA regionals three years and a row and a gold two years in a row for ISSMA semi-state at Ben Davis High School. These are the highest accolades ever received by the marching band.
• Competition JV Cheerleading won state in 2007.
• In 2007 the Fishers Wrestling team traveled to Toledo, OH to compete in the St. John Jesuit Invitation. The JV and Varsity teams both placed 2nd at the tournament.
• The Fishers High School Winter Pecussion Ensemble placed 1st in the IPA state pre-liminaries, and 4th in IPA state finals in 2008
• The Southeastern Rugby Club, which includes members from both Fishers High School and Hamilton Southeastern High School
  Hamilton Southeastern High School
  Hamilton Southeastern High School is a four-star, Blue Ribbon public high school in Fishers, Indiana, a town north of Indianapolis. It is a part of the Hamilton Southeastern School District...
  
  , won the Division II State title in 2008 with a 12-2 record. Throughout the main season, they were never scored on at home, and they went undefeated against other Division II teams.

Fall

• Boys Cross Country
  Cross country running
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• Girls Cross Country
• Football
  American football
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• Girls Golf
  Golf
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• Boys Soccer
• Girls Soccer
• Boys Tennis
  Tennis
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• Volleyball
  Volleyball
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Winter

• Boys Basketball
  Basketball
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• Girls Basketball
• Boys Swimming
  Swimming (sport)
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• Girls Swimming
• Wrestling
  Wrestling
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Spring

• Baseball
  Baseball
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• Girls Golf
• Softball
  Softball
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• Girls Tennis
• Boys Track and Field
  Track and field
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• Girls Track and Field

Fishers High School Clubs & Activities

• Dance Team (has won national championships in 2009 and 2011 as a combined team with Hamilton Southeastern called "Fishers Fusion", as well as placing in the top 3 in State for the past 3 years)
• 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...
  
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• French
  French language
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• German
  German language
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• Japanese
  Japanese language
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   Club
• Key Club
• Anime
  Anime
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   Club
• RPG
  Role-playing game
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   Club
• Guitar
  Guitar
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   Club
• Student Council
• Interact Club
• Sit N' Knit Club
• 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....
  
  
• Academic Team (Quiz Bowl, Spell Bowl, Super Bowl)
• Speech Team
• Harry Potter Club
• Destination Imagination
• International Thespian Society
• Math Club/Team
• National Honor Society
• Quill and Scroll
• American Sign Language Club
• Nintendo Club
• Art Club
• Best Buddies
• DECA
• Drama Club
• Fellowship of Christian Athletes
• Film Club
• FFA
• High School Literary Magazine
• Recycling Club
• Ski and Snowboard Club
• Spirit Club
• Step Club
• Student Venture
• Campus Life
• We the People
• Write Life Poetry Club