Belleville High School (Michigan)

Belleville High School
Address
501 West Columbia Ave
Belleville, Wayne, Michigan 48111
United States
Coordinates 42°12′12″N 83°29′35″W / 42.203295°N 83.493087°W / 42.203295; -83.493087Coordinates: 42°12′12″N 83°29′35″W / 42.203295°N 83.493087°W / 42.203295; -83.493087
Information
School type Public Secondary
Motto Home of the Tigers
Established 1869
School district Van Buren Public Schools
Principal Stacey Buhro
Faculty 103
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 1,875
Color(s) Orange and Black         
Nickname Tigers
Rivals Romulus High School Eagles
Lincoln High School Railsplitters
Yearbook Tiger Lore
Educational-access station WBHS Channel 19
Website www.vanburenschools.net/o/belleville-high

The current Belleville High School completed in 2012

Belleville High School is a public high school located in Belleville, Michigan and the only zoned high school in the Van Buren School District.

History

In 1953, a fire destroyed the third floor of Belleville High School. The blaze began in a basement store room and swept to the second and third floors via a nearby ventilating shaft. No one was injured, but the second and third floors were damaged beyond use for the rest of the school year. The third floor had remained closed, and before the demolition of the building classes continued on the first and second stories.[1]

During the Winter of 2010, the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education approved the accelerated schedule that the architect of Fanning Howey and Granger Construction presented. The new Belleville High School was built just east of the location where the old Belleville High School stood. The new school was completed in the Summer of 2012 and school was in session for the first time (at the new school) on September 4, 2012. The class of 2013 will be the first to graduate from the new school.

As of August 2012, the old Belleville High School was demolished, excluding the music wing, auditorium, and cafeteria.

WBHS Channel 19

In 2000, Comcast, set the school up with an educational access station which would come to be called WBHS Channel 19. The station is almost entirely run by students[2][3] taking the year-long "Channel 19" course with only the aid of one instructor and the occasional alumni volunteer. The station broadcasts the daily produced morning announcements, student projects, Semi-annual live telethons and other events from around the area which are either taped by the high school's T.E.C. Club or submitted by parents & staff. The station itself is shown on channel 19[4] as well as HD channel 902 in Comcast’s Van Buren Township Corp, 9502.[5] [6]

Sports

Their team rivals are the Lincoln High School Railsplitters and the Romulus High School Eagles.

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "BHS Points of Pride and History". Archived from the original on 2008-08-07. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  2. ↑ Kuban, Kurt (July 12, 2001). "Popular BHS video program making impact in Hollywood". Canton Observer. 27 (2). With more than 200 active students, Belleville High School's video production program is one of the school's most innovative and popular programs. Students in the program learn every aspect of video production and programming, and even run their own cable television station. The shows they produce are watched on a regular basis by many in the community. Not bad for something that began as a small club with just a handful of students back in the late 1980s, The program is the brainchild of teacher Steve Wilson, who previously spent 17 years as the school's auditorium manager.
  3. ↑ Otzman, Rosemary K. (April 4, 2013). "Image caption". Belleville Independent. 19 (14). Belleville, Michigan. a very active video club that produced a vibrant educational cable channel 19, with live and recorded school board meetings.
  4. ↑ Otzman, Rosemary K. (May 14, 2014). "Extra things I know". Belleville Independent. 20 (20). Belleville, Michigan.
  5. ↑ Archive index at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ http://bhsch19.com
  7. 1 2 3 Unterberger, Richie (1999). Music USA: The Rough Guide. London: Rough Guides. p. 312. ISBN 1-85828-421-X.
  8. 1 2 Pat Yasinskas (November 18, 2007). "'Big Daddy' Jenkins is head of the line". The Charlotte Observer. Archived from the original on 2008-01-21. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  9. ↑ "Argus Family Graduates" (PDF). Argus Eyes. 8 (5). June 1952. p. 7. Retrieved 2014-05-14. Myra Lea MacPherson Belleville High School Daughter of Douglas MacPherson
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