Gibson Southern High School

Gibson Southern High School
Address
3499 W CR 800 S
(3499 W Coal Mine Road)
Fort Branch, Indiana 47648
United States
Coordinates 38°14′11″N 87°38′07″W / 38.236377°N 87.635407°W / 38.236377; -87.635407Coordinates: 38°14′11″N 87°38′07″W / 38.236377°N 87.635407°W / 38.236377; -87.635407
Information
Type Public
Established August 1974
School district South Gibson School Corporation
Principal Scott Reid [1]
Faculty 29.8[2]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 677 (2014-15)[3]
Average class size 22.9[2]
Color(s)               
Fight song Minnesota Rouser
Athletics conference IHSAA
1A in Soccer, 4A in Softball
3A in all other classed sports [4]
Pocket Athletic Conference
Team name Titans[4]
Rival Princeton Community
Wood Memorial
North Posey
Newspaper The Southerner
Gym capacity 3,850
Website www.sgibson.k12.in.us/gshs_new/gshs_index.htm

Gibson Southern High School is a public high school located near Fort Branch in Gibson County in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the largest of the three high schools in the county, which also include Princeton Community, and Wood Memorial High Schools.

Description

The area of Gibson County served by Gibson Southern High School

Completed in 1973, Gibson Southern was created as a consolidation of Fort Branch Community High School, Haubstadt Johnson, and Owensville Montgomery High Schools. Gibson Southern High School graduated its first class of Seniors in the Spring of 1975.

Three junior high schools feed into Gibson Southern to form its student body: Fort Branch Community School, Haubstadt Community School and Owensville Community School. Gibson Southern and these three community schools are the schools which compromise the South Gibson School Corporation.

Renovation

In February 2008, Gibson Southern High School began a multimillion-dollar renovation project. This overhaul was expected to be completed by August 2010,[5][6] but was not finished until March, 2011.

Academics

Gibson Southern High School has received the Indiana Four Star School Award twelve of fourteen years, from 1994 through 2008.[7][8]

Student life

The Titan Fieldhouse during a girls' basketball game with South Spencer High School

Athletics

In 1974, Gibson Southern was originally a member of the Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC). In 1980, the school left the PAC to form the Big 8 Conference with 7 former Southern Indiana Athletic Conference schools, some of which were also once members of the PAC. In 1994, Gibson Southern left the Big 8 to rejoin the PAC. Another Big 8 and former member, Tell City, returned a decade later.

The school won state championships in softball in 2003, 2005, 2015 and State Runners-Up in 2001 and 2014.[9] Because of making consecutive appearances at the State Finals, Gibson Southern's softball team will compete in Class 4A until at least the 2019 season.

The Lady Titan soccer team finished state runner-up in 2013.

The Titan Baseball team finished runner-up in 2014.

Activities

The Academic Spell Bowl team won its first and last ever state championship at Purdue University. The previous two years the team placed third.[10]

The Marching Titans won the ISSMA State Championship in Class C in 2001, 2004, and 2007. In 2010, the Marching Titans was the smallest band, consisting of only 22 members, to make it to Indiana State School Music Association State Finals in Class C. In 2013, The Marching Titans program disbanded, instead focusing on concert band, due to declining participation.

In March 2012, GSHS Theater was one of only 20 departments nationwide to put on a production of Legally Blonde.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sgibson.k12.in.us/gshs_new/gshs_index.htm
  2. 1 2 "Schools Directory" (PDF).
  3. ↑ "Gibson Southern High School". Retrieved September 19, 2017.
  4. 1 2 IHSSA Membership Guide. Indiana High School Athletic Association: 55. 2009 http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=s_vFIg5iTiM%3d&tabid=585. Retrieved 6 April 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ sgsc_super
  6. ↑ South Gibson School Corporation
  7. ↑ Indiana Department of Education
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/Schools/StateChampHistory/StateChampionshipsbySchool/tabid/1940/Default.aspx#35772028-g
  10. ↑ http://www.iasp.org/iace/SpellStateResultsSenior.html
  11. ↑ http://www.gshstheatre.com/history
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