Monticello High School (Virginia)

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Monticello High School
Address
1400 Independence Way
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Information
Principal Billy Haun
Enrollment

1,129
Type Public
Grades 9-12
Campus Suburban
Schedule type Block
Athletics conference AA Jefferson District
Mascot Mustang
Color(s) Black & Gold
Established 1998
Homepage http://schoolcenter.k12albemarle.org/education/school/school.php?sectionid=19

Monticello High School (MHS) is a suburban public high school located outside Charlottesville, Virginia. Opened in 1998, it is one of three traditional comprehensive high schools in the Albemarle County Public School system. The school is named after Monticello, the nearby estate of the United States' third president, Thomas Jefferson.

With an enrollment of 1,129 students in grades 9 through 12, Monticello receives students from Walton and Burley Middle Schools, which cover the southern and eastern portions of the county. The school colors are black and gold, and the mascot is a mustang. The school's fight song uses the tune of The Victors, with lyrics:

Hail! to the Mustangs
Marching onward from Monticello,
Hail! Hail! The Thundering Herd
Is Coming Your Way!

Hail! to the Mustangs,
Valiant Hail! to the Blue Ridge Heroes,
Hail! Hail! to Monticello,
Leaders of the Way!

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[edit] Administration

Dr. Irving Jones, the school's first principal, was named the 2003 National High School Principal of the Year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

Principals:
Dr. Irving Jones (Aug. 1998 - Oct. 2002)
Sherrard "Steele" Howen (Oct. 2002 - June 2003)
John W. "Billy" Haun (August 2003 - present)

Current Administration:
Hank Atkins, Associate Principal
Jim Asher, Assistant Principal
Melissa McBride, Assistant Principal

[edit] Accolades & Academics

In the spring of 2006, biology teacher Jeremy Dove was recognized by the President of the United States as an outstanding science teacher by receiving the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.(www.paemst.org) MHS has a reputation as Albemarle County's "green school," as it was built to be energy-efficient and environmentally friendly, with skylights, a natural biofilter in the parking lot, and an on-campus artificial wetland.

Monticello High School is fully accredited by the Virginia State Board of Education and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The school offers a number of Advanced Placement courses, including:

English 11 and 12, European History, US History, US Government, Biology II, French V, Spanish V, German V, Psychology, Statistics, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Physics II, Chemistry II, Environmental Science, Studio Art

MHS uses Albemarle County's standard grading scale, according to which: A=90-100, B=89-80, C=79-70, D=69-60 and F =59 and below. "+" and "-" designations are also applied, but do not alter the number (4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0, 0) used for GPA calculation. A weighed average is used to determine class rank, although no valedictorian or salutatorian is named at graduation ceremonies.

[edit] Athletics

Since it opened in 1998, Monticello has a member of the Jefferson District, which includes 6 other area high schools in Region II of the Virginia High School League's AA classification (A-AAA scale). In football, the school has shifted between Division 3 and Division 4 of Class AA. For the 2007-08 two season cycle, MHS will compete in Division 3.

Athletics Director Fitzgerald Barnes has been at MHS since the school opened, as has head football coach Brud Bicknell. The Mustangs have won at least 8 games in each of the last five football seasons. In 2003, coach Bicknell lead his team to the state championship, where they lost. The Mustangs returned to the State Championship in 2007, defeating Richlands High School 36-22, clinching the first state championship for any Albemarle County football team.

On-campus facilities include a multi-purpose stadium with track, a cross country running trail, multiple practice fields, two gymnasiums, and weight rooms, however has no tennis courts. The school's boys and girls tennis teams use the courts at Piedmont Virginia Community College, which is adjacent to MHS.

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