Heidelberg High School
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Heidelberg High School is a school operated by the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) located on Mark Twain Village, a housing area for American military members and their families in Heidelberg, Germany. It is one of DoDDS's original five high schools opened in 1946. There are only two of the original five remaining, the other being Kubasaki High School at Marine Corps Base Camp S.D. Butler (formerly Fort Buckner) Okinawa, Japan, however, other high schools were built later.
It has grades 9-12 (originally 7-12 until 1976 when a middle school (built for grades 6-8) was built on Patrick Henry Village) and offers a variety of high school courses.
[edit] Courses
- Algebra I and II
- Geometry
- Calculus
- Statistics
- Language Arts 9-12
- Biology and Marine Biology
- Chemistry
- History
- Government
- Street Law
- German I-VI
- French I-VI
- Spanish I-VI
- Honors courses
- AP (college) courses: Physics; Chemistry; Biology; French; German; Spanish; Statistics; Calculus; US History; US Government; Art History; English Lit; English Language and Composition; Art
- Personal Fitness
- Lifetime Sports
- Computer and website programming courses
- Computer graphics
- Art
- Music
- Photography
- Video Communications I-II
[edit] Miscellaneous
Heidelberg High School was featured in the 21 July 1947 issue of Life Magazine.
ABC news anchor Elizabeth Vargas graduated from Heidelberg High School in 1980.
