Bosse High School
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Benjamin Bosse High School, a model of community involvement in education, is located at 1300 Washington in Evansville, Indiana. It is one of five public and two parochial high schools in Evansville.
Bosse serves the city's southern quarter, and historically has been a working-class school. The school is racially diverse, reflecting the surrounding neighborhood. In the early 2000s, the school was roughly 60 percent Caucasian and 40 percent African-Americans and other minorities.
The school was named for Benjamin Bosse, mayor of Evansville from 1914 to 1922, who bought land and financed the building of a school. Bosse died in 1922, the same year construction began on the school. Benjamin Bosse High School opened its doors to juniors from old Central High School on January 29, 1924 and graduated its first class in 1925.
Bosse High's mascot is the "Bulldog." The colors are scarlet and grey. Bosse's band marched in the Orange Bowl Parade on New Year's Eve in 1970-1971.
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