Belvidere High School (Illinois)

Belvidere High School
Address
1500 East Avenue
Belvidere, Illinois 61008
United States
Coordinates 42°14′38″N 88°49′50″W / 42.2438°N 88.8306°W / 42.2438; -88.8306Coordinates: 42°14′38″N 88°49′50″W / 42.2438°N 88.8306°W / 42.2438; -88.8306
Information
School type Public Secondary
School district Belvidere Community Unit School District 100
Superintendent Daniel Woestman 2016[1] =
Principal Billy Lewis
Grades 9–12
Gender Coed
Enrollment 1,263[2] (2014-15)
Average class size 21.4[3]
Campus type Urban
Color(s)      Purple
     Gold[4]
Slogan It's the Year of the BUCS!
Song Notre Dame Victory March
Athletics conference Northern Illinois Conference (NIC-10)[5]
Team name Bucs[4]
Average ACT scores (2012) 20.1[3]
Newspaper The Buccaneer'[6]
Yearbook Belvi
Website Official School Website

Belvidere High School is located in at 1500 East Avenue, Belvidere, Illinois in Boone County.

History

On the afternoon of April 21, 1967, an F4 tornado struck the school, killing 13 students and staff. The tornado was part of the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak. It was the sixth worse loss of life at an American school as a result of tornadoes, and the worst since 1955.[7][8]

To mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy, a memorial to the lives lost in the tornado was erected in front of Belvidere High School in 2007.[9]

Athletics

Belvidere competes in the Northern Illinois Conference (NIC-10), and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Teams are stylized as the Bucs (a shortening of Buccaneers).

BHS Sports: Football, Poms, Cheerleading, Basketball, Dance, Baseball, Tennis, Bowling, Track & Field, Soccer, Softball, Golf, Volleyball, Swimming, Hockey, Lacrosse, and Cross Country.

The school won back–to–back state championships in football in the autumns of 1993 and 1994.[10]

Belvidere High School's current biggest rival is Belvidere North High School. Before that school was created, however, Rockford Boylan Central Catholic High School was their biggest sports rival.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.district100.com/District/Pages/Superintendent.aspx
  2. ↑ "Belvidere High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Illinois School Report Card: Belvidere High School" (PDF). Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). 2009. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
  4. 1 2 "Belvidere (H.S.)". Illinois High School Association (IHSA). 1 April 2010. Archived from the original on 4 June 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
  5. ↑ "IHSA School Directory". Illinois High School Association. 2 August 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  6. ↑ "Buccaneer". Belvidere High School. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-10-13. Retrieved 2008-11-16.
  8. ↑ "The Ten Worst Tornado Related Disasters in Schools". The Tornado Project. 1999. Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  9. ↑ "Like It Was Yesterday: 50 years since Belvidere tornado". WIFR-LD. 2017-04-21. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
  10. ↑ "Season Summaries: Belvidere (H.S.)". Illinois High School Association (IHSA). 28 March 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
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