Beauregard High School
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Address
7343 Alabama Highway 51
Beauregard, Alabama 36804
Information
School type Public high school
Founded 1923
School district Lee County Schools
Principal Richard L. Brown
Grades 912
Enrollment 584  (2010)
Language English
Color(s) Blue, gold, and white
Mascot Hornets
Feeder schools Sanford Middle School
Website

Beauregard High School is a high school in Beauregard, Alabama, enrolling grades 9-12. The school enrolls 584 students, and is one of four high schools in the Lee County School District along with Beulah, Loachapoka, and Smiths Station High Schools.[1] Beauregard High School is named for Confederate Army general P.G.T. Beauregard.[2]

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History [link]

Beauregard High School in 2011.

Beauregard High School was formed in 1923 as Whatley High School with the consolidation several rural one-room schools in the area, including Whatley, Thompson, Hopewell, Hinson, Parker's Cross Road, and Dorsey Schools. By 1927, Whatley had absorbed Barron's Cross Road, Pleasant Grove, Sand Hill, Watoola, Pierce Chapel, and Marvyn Schools. This consolidated Whatley school served grades 1-11, with students wishing to finish high school attending Auburn High School seven miles northwest in Auburn. In 1927, Whatley school added the 12th grade and was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. A teacher at the school, Kate Grimmett Parker, requested in 1928 that the school's name be changed to "Beauregard High School", after Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. This name change was accepted, and the school quickly adopted the mascot of the hornet, after the "Hornet's Nest", a particularly vicious area of fighting of General Beauregard's troops in the Battle of Shiloh.[2][3]

Until 1936, electricity at Beauregard High was supplied by a Delco-Light gas generator, and indoor plumbing was added in 1939.[3] During the 1970-71 school year, Beauregard integrated with nearby Sanford High School, which led to the school being reconfigured from grades 1-12 to grades 1-3 and 10-12, with grades 4 and 9 added back to the school in subsequent years. By 1992, the secondary and elementary divisions were split, and today both Beauregard High School and Beauregard Elementary School share the same campus as separate schools.[2]

Core Classes [link]

  • English
  • Math
  • Science
  • History

Electives (as of 2010) [link]

Chart showing composite test scores of Beauregard High School juniors in 2010 on the Alabama High School Graduation Exam, compared with juniors at the other public high schools in Lee County.

*Spanish I and Spanish II

  • Business Management (Career Tech)
  • Advertising Sales and Promotions (Career Tech)
  • Health Occupations (HOSA)
  • Driver's Ed

Notable alumni [link]

External links [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ State of Alabama Department of Education, Enrollment by Ethnicity and Gender (School Level) Year 2009—2010, Retrieved August 5, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "About the School", retrieved August 5, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Virginia Whatley, "Beauregard Community", Lee County and Her Forebears, (Montgomery, Ala.: Herff Jones, 1983), 110-111.

Coordinates: 32°32′59″N 85°22′23″W / 32.549743°N 85.373071°W / 32.549743; -85.373071



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High school

A high school (also secondary school, senior school, secondary college) is a school that provides adolescents with part or all of their secondary education. It may come after primary school or middle school and be followed by higher education or vocational training.

Terminology

The term "high school" originated in Scotland, with the world's oldest high school being Edinburgh's Royal High School from 1505. The Royal High School was used as a model for the first public high school in the United States, Boston Latin School founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

The precise stage of schooling provided by a high school differs from country to country, and may vary within the same jurisdiction. In all of New Zealand and Malaysia, along with most of Britain and parts of Australia, Bangladesh and Canada, high school means the same thing as secondary school, but instead of starting in 9th grade, these "secondary schools" begin at ages 11 or 12.

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High school is the last segment of compulsory secondary education in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Scotland, the United States, and other countries; the term also refers to the building where such education takes place.

High school may also refer to:

Education

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    The United States historically had a demand for general skills rather than specific training/apprenticeships. High school enrollment increased when schools at this level became free, laws required children to attend until a certain age, and it was believed that every American student had the opportunity to participate regardless of their ability.

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