Gibson Southern High School

Gibson Southern High School
Address
3499 W 800 S
(3499 W Coal Mine Road)
Fort Branch, Indiana, 47648
United States
Coordinates 38°14′11″N 87°38′07″W / 38.236377°N 87.635407°WCoordinates: 38°14′11″N 87°38′07″W / 38.236377°N 87.635407°W
Information
Type Public
Opened August 1974
School district South Gibson School Corporation
Principal Scott Reid [1]
Faculty 29.8[2]
Grades 9-12
Number of students 683[2]
Average class size 22.9[2]
Color(s)      maroon
     gold
     white[3]
     black
(Increasingly used in place of white)
Song Gibson Southern, Gibson Southern, set to the Minnesota Rouser
Athletics conference IHSAA 3A[3]
Pocket Athletic Conference
Team name Titans[3]
Rival Princeton Community
Wood Memorial
Newspaper The Southerner
Website Gibson Southern High School

Gibson Southern High School is a public high school located near Fort Branch in Gibson County in the U.S. state of Indiana.

Description

The area of Gibson County served by Gibson Southern High School

Completed in 1974, Gibson Southern was created as a consolidation of Fort Branch Community School, Haubstadt Johnson, and Owensville Montgomery High Schools. Gibson Southern High School graduated its first class of Seniors in the Spring of 1975.

Three junior high schools feed into Gibson Southern to form its student body: Fort Branch Community School, Haubstadt Community School and Owensville Community School. Gibson Southern and these three community schools are the schools which compromise the South Gibson School Corporation.

Renovation

In February 2008, Gibson Southern High School began a multi-million dollar renovation project. This overhaul was expected to be completed by August 2010,[4][5] but was not finished until March, 2011.

Academics

Gibson Southern High School has received the Indiana Four Star School Award twelve of fourteen years, from 1994 through 2008.[6][7]

Student life

Athletics

In 1974, Gibson Southern was originally a member of the Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC). In 1980, the school left the PAC to form the Big 8 Conference with 7 former Southern Indiana Athletic Conference schools. In 1992, Gibson Southern left the Big 8 to rejoin the PAC.

The school won state championships in softball in both 2003 and 2005 and State Runner-Ups in 2001 and 2014.[8]

The Titan football team has won the regional title two years in a row; 2012 and 2013.

The Lady Titan soccer team finished state runner-up in 2013.

The Titan Baseball team finished runner-up in 2014.

Activities

The Academic Spell Bowl team won its first and last ever state championship at Purdue University. The previous two years the team placed third. [9]

The Marching Titans won the ISSMA State Championship in Class C in 2001, 2004, and 2007. In 2010, the Marching Titans was the smallest band, consisting of only 22 members, to make it to Indiana State School Music Association State Finals in Class C. In 2013, The Marching Titans program disbanded, instead focusing on concert band, due to declining participation.

In March 2012, GSHS Theater was one of only 20 departments nationwide to put on a production of Legally Blonde.[10]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sgibson.k12.in.us/gshs_new/gshs_index.htm
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Gibson Southern High School". NCES. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 IHSSA Membership Guide (Indiana High School Athletic Association): 55. 2009 http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=s_vFIg5iTiM%3d&tabid=585. Retrieved 6 April 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ sgsc_super
  5. ↑ South Gibson School Corporation
  6. ↑ Indiana Department of Education]
  7. ↑
  8. ↑ http://www.ihsaa.org/dnn/Sports/Girls/Softball/TeamStateChampions/tabid/444/Default.aspx
  9. ↑ http://www.iasp.org/iace/SpellStateResultsSenior.html
  10. ↑ http://www.gshstheatre.com/history
  11. ↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=whitte001cha
  12. ↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=campbe001eri

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