Belvidere High School (Belvidere, Illinois)

Belvidere High School
Address
1500 East Avenue
Belvidere, Illinois, 61008
USA
Information
School district Belvidere Community Unit 100
Superintendent Michael Houselog[1]
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 1151[2]  (2008–09)
Average class size 19.6[2]
Color(s)      purple
     gold[3]
Athletics conference NIC-10[3]
Team name Bucs[3]
Average ACT scores (2008–09) 19.7[2]
Newspaper 'The Buccaneer[4]
Website www.district100.com/bhs

Belvidere High School is located in at 1500 East Ave., Belvidere, Illinois, 61008 in Boone County.

The school is perhaps most notable for the deaths of 13 students and staff on the afternoon of April 21, 1967 when an F4 tornado struck the school as part of a massive tornado outbreak in the Midwest. It is the sixth worse loss of life at an American school as a result of tornadoes, and the worst since 1955.[5][6]

Athletics

Belvidere competes in the Northern Illinois Conference (NIC-10), and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Teams are stylized as the Bucs (a shortening of Buccaneer).

The school won back–to–back state championships in football in the autumns of 1993 and 1994.[7]

Matt Barr, a nationally-recognized quarterback with the Western Illinois University Leathernecks, attended Belvidere and played for the team. At Belvidere, he was an all-conference quarterback and punter and the league's 2005 offensive MVP.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Central Office Complex Staff". directory. Belvidere Community Unit School District 100. http://www.district100.com/D100CentralOfficeStaff.htm. Retrieved 20 April 2010. 
  2. ^ a b c "Illinois School Report Card: Belvidere High School". Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). 2009. http://webprod.isbe.net/ereportcard/publicsite/getReport.aspx?year=2009&code=0400410000001_e.pdf. Retrieved 20 April 2010. 
  3. ^ a b c "Belvidere (H.S.)". Illinois High School Association (IHSA). 1 April 2010. http://www.ihsa.org/school/schools/0212.htm. Retrieved 20 April 2010. 
  4. ^ "Buccaneer". Belvidere High School. http://www.district100.com/bhs/Assets/School_Newspaper.html. Retrieved 19 April 2010. 
  5. ^ http://growingbolder.com/blogs/entertainment/other/april-21-1967-173612.html
  6. ^ "The Ten Worst Tornado Related Disasters in Schools". The Tornado Project. 1999. http://www.tornadoproject.com/toptens/topten2.htm#belvidere. Retrieved 23 December 2009. 
  7. ^ "Season Summaries: Belvidere (H.S.)". Illinois High School Association (IHSA). 28 March 2010. http://www.ihsa.org/school/records/sum0212.htm. Retrieved 20 April 2010. 
  8. ^ Matt Barr GoLeathernecks.com

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