The Bourne Academy

The Bourne Academy, formerly known as Kings High School, is a mixed secondary school in Bournemouth, Dorset in England. The school has a specialist status as an Arts College.

History

1937-1967: East Howe Senior School

The school was built in 1937 as East Howe Senior School for boys and girls. The original East Howe School was built in 1912 by Dorset County Council when the area was rural. The school was brought under the control of Bournemouth Local Education Authority in 1931 when Bournemouth extended its boundaries to include the area. The school grew rapidly and the seniors moved to their new building along Hadow Road (supposedly named after Henry Hadow of the Hadow Report of 1926). During World War II, the school was utilized as a hospital. The original 1912 school is now used as a youth centre.

1967-1999: Kingsleigh Secondary School

In 1967 the boys' and girls' schools merged to become Kingsleigh Secondary School, along with the local infant school and junior school. A number of buildings were added to the school until it was put in special measures.

Kings High School (Kings Mills, Ohio)

Kings High School is a public high school in the unincorporated village of Kings Mills, Ohio in Deerfield Township, Warren County. It is the only high school in the Kings Local School District. Kings has been rated excellent for 10 consecutive years under Ohio academic standards. Kings High School underwent a major construction and renovation project in 2009. A wing was added with new lockers, classrooms, and a high-tech upgrade. The school's mission statement is, "Kings Local School District Empowers All Learners to Develop and Maximize Their Capacity For Success." The school's enrollment as of fall 2012 was 1,244 students.

Kings High School offers many extracurricular programs for students including an academic quiz team, art club, choir, color guard and winter guard, community service club, dance team, theatre, marching band, pep band, jazz band, drumline, symphony orchestra, the Knight Times newspaper, and yearbook. The Kings music and drama departments offer 13 extracurricular programs, with an additional 19 music clubs and/or activities. Over 90 percent of Kings graduates pursue a post-secondary education.

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.

Country by country

Australia

In Australia, high school is a secondary school, from Year 7 or Year 8 through to Year 12, varying from state to state. High school immediately follows primary (elementary) school; therefore, a Year-7 Australian high-school student is sometimes as young as 12. In Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, the term "high school" generally refers to Years 7–10, whereas the term "College" is used for Years 11–12. In Victoria the term "secondary college" has largely replaced the term "high school" following the reforms of the Labor Government in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Some schools have retained the name "high school" (such as Melbourne High School) and many have now dropped the "secondary" and are simply known as "college".

High school (disambiguation)

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:

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Secondary education in the United States

In most jurisdictions, secondary education in the United States refers to the last four years of statutory formal education (grade nine through grade twelve) either at high school or split between a final year of 'junior high school' and three in high school.

History

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.

In 1892, in response to many competing academic philosophies being promoted at the time, a working group of educators, known as the "Committee of Ten" was established by the National Education Association. It recommended twelve years of instruction, consisting of eight years of elementary education followed by four years of high school. Rejecting suggestions that high schools should divide students into college-bound and working-trades groups from the start, and in some cases also by race or ethnic background, they unanimously recommended that "every subject which is taught at all in a secondary school should be taught in the same way and to the same extent to every pupil so long as he pursues it, no matter what the probable destination of the pupil may be, or at what point his education is to cease."