Bartram Trail High School
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Bartram Trail High School (BTHS) is a public high school
in the St. Johns County School District
, located in northwest St. Johns County
, Florida
(U.S.
) that opened in 2000. The school is ranked number 327 by Newsweek
magazine in the top 1,300 high schools in the United States in 2008.
. It includes: art classes
, English studies
and literature
, mathematics
, performing arts
, physical education classes, various science
and social studies
classes, vocational classes
, world and foreign language classes
, television
production, band
, chorus
and turf management
.
Bartram Trail offers the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
(JROTC) class which teaches various academic studies along with character and life skills education based around the heritage and traditions of the United States Air Force
. The Bartram Trail High School Academy of Design and Building Construction is available to teach carpentry
and in other fields such as interior design
, drafting
and fashion design
. In 2007, Bartram Trail got together with VyStar Credit Union
to form the Bartram Trail High School VyStar Academy of Business and Finance. The course teaches career opportunities with financial services
and business management
industries. For students with disabilities, the Exceptional Student Education (ESE) program is available.
The Advanced Scholars Program at Bartram Trail gives advanced students the opportunity to participate in advanced placement
, dual enrollment
and honors
courses in preparation for college. In May 2007, over 1,450 advanced placement exams were given with a passing rate of 54%.
The 2006-2007 school year saw 64% of the students who took the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
(FCAT) score the necessary 3 or above in the reading portion of the test and 89% score above the mark on the mathematics section. The FCAT Writing scores saw 92% of the students scoring a 3.5 or above.
Bartram Trail can give the graduating seniors a choice of scholarship
s they can apply for, through the school, to get started with college
. In 2006, seven Bartram Trail students earned scholarships when they became finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program
. The 2006-2007 school year graduation rate was 87.1%☭ with only a 1.0% drop out
rate.
exploration route in the Northern St. Johns County
area, and not after William Bartram
himself. Bartram Trail and Pedro Menendez High School
were constructed to relieve overcrowding
at Allen D. Nease Senior High School
and St. Augustine High School
. Bartram Trail and Pedro Menendez were the first new high schools built in the St. Johns County School District in twenty years, since Nease was opened in 1981. However, as the second school year at Bartram Trail began, the original capacity of 1,500 was exceeded with an enrollment of 1,529. By the 2002 school year, enrollment was at 1,840, more than 300 students above capacity.
In 2004, the school district projected Bartram Trail's 2007-2008 enrollment at over 3,000.
To reduce overcrowding at Bartram Trail and Nease High School, two new high schools, Ponte Vedra High School
and Creekside High School
, were constructed and opened for the 2008-2009 school year.
From 2002 to 2006, the Florida Department of Education graded Bartram Trail as an "A" school, but in 2007, it was changed to a "B" school. Bartram Trail is also named in Newsweek
s annual list of the top 1,300 high schools in the United States. In 2005, Bartram Trail ranked 894, in 2006 it was ranked 579, in 2007 it was ranked 474, and in 2008 it was ranked 327.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks
, the Young Republicans Club at Bartram Trail wanted to get a piece of the destroyed World Trade Center
for a memorial to those who died in the attacks. Students sent letters to the Office of Emergency Management in New York
, forwarded by the former principal, Jim Springfield. The office replied in May 2002 and agreed to let them own a piece of the World Trade Center debris as long as Springfield came to New York City
and got it himself. He received the debris on May 21, 2002; the piece was a six-foot-long piece of I-beam
steel
that weighed seven hundred pounds
.
The concept behind the sculpture, created by art teacher Robert Kirk, was that the piece of World Trade Center debris was to be one-half of the letter "V" while the other half was to be made of pristine stainless steel
. The "V" was to stand for "Victory", and was to symbol
ize the "somber tragedy and the unity of American
resolve." The sculpture was unveiled in Bartram Trail's courtyard on September 11, 2002, one year after the attacks, with Florida Governor Jeb Bush
attending the ceremony. Only seventy-three pieces of World Trade Center debris were donated, and it is believed that this was the only piece in Florida and the only piece in an American high school.
, in 2005, Bartram Trail High School was selected by the National Football League
as the practice facility for AFC champion
New England Patriots
. Bartram Trail was selected by the NFL because the World Golf Village
was chosen as the New England Patriots lodging and the practice field had to be within twenty minutes of their hotel. Bartram Trail was also selected because the school's location was remote with little traffic and interference and because the walk from the lockers to the field was short enough. Bartram Trail was the first high school ever that was chosen to be the practice facility for a Super Bowl
team.
The NFL made modifications to Bartram Trail, installing new lockers, making a new practice field and modifying their game field to professional standards. The field modifications, however, were delayed by Hurricane Frances
and caused them to start over several times. Bartram Trail's field was considered one of the top five high school fields in Florida, but the problem was that the field was supported by dirt, instead of sand. To fix this, the NFL modified Bartram Trail's football field by building the fields up with two hundred loads of sand, adding a drainage system and building the slope, crown and type of grass to the same specifications as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. Students from the Bartram Trail turf management
classes worked with George Toma, who had built all thirty-nine fields for the Super Bowl games, in building and maintaining the field.
After the two weeks of practice in Bartram Trail, a few of the New England Patriots and owner Robert Kraft
came in on the last day to talk with the students and thank them for their hospitality, as New England head coach Bill Belichick
had done earlier in a morning press conference.
winning ESPN
documentary by Wayne Drehs on a community in Barrow, Alaska
. The documentary focused on a football program that was implemented in order to reverse high teenage suicide
rates, accelerated drop out
rates and increased teen drug abuse
. Project Alaska Turf was funded by Bartram Trail, the Jacksonville Jaguars
, ProGrass and the Grimes Companies. The project was aimed at raising money to provide a football team, the Barrow Whalers, an artificial turf field to replace their gravel-covered field. Since Barrow, Alaska is above the Arctic Circle
, grass doesn't grow there, resulting in their football field being made of dirt and gravel and causing injury to the players.
The original goal was to raise $500,000 to make the field, but the ending target was eventually set to $800,000. The money covered the cost of buying, shipping and installing all one hundred and sixty tons of turf.
The Barrow Whalers were invited to Florida on May 17 through the May 19 but the Whalers didn't arrive until June. Restaurateurs and other business owners provided them free room and board upon their arrival. During their visit to Jacksonville, they scrimmaged against another local team and toured Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, where the Jacksonville Jaguars play.
The field was completed with $700,000 generated from the donation; $100,000 short of the goal. The Bartram Trail community worked for a long period of time and managed to move the field from Florida to Alaska by trucks, boats, trains, and on airplanes with help from ten different companies. The field was opened in time for the Barrow Whalers first game on August 17, 2007, which they won, 18-16, after being down by two touchdown
s with three minutes left in the game. The game was the first live internet broadcast of a sporting event in the United States from north of the Arctic Circle and had NBC
, ABC
, ESPN
, and most of Alaska's media there to cover the event.
s and a threat of a school shooting.
On October 16, 2001, at about 2:20 p.m., the school was under "code green" as a dark bag with the word "bomb" was found in the hallways on the second floor. Authorities evacuated
the school and kept everyone at least five hundred feet away. Near 5 p.m., the bomb squad had removed the bag out of the school with a long rope and drove away with it. The bag only contained stuffed recycled paper and a two-liter bottle with more recycled paper sticking out of it. Seven students were arrested in connection to the incident. Four had their charges dismissed while one boy plea
ded guilty
to writing the note and was sentence
d to probation
and community service
.
On November 6, 2002, three female students of Bartram Trail were arrested and charged for "a false report of bombing or arson
against state-owned property", a second-degree felony
. The threat was written on the partition between bathroom stalls, reported as saying something like "This school will be blown to bits at noon". The threat was specific for noon on November 5, 2002.
During the time of the threat, the school was evacuated and searched by deputies and explosives detection dogs
, but nothing was found. Two of the students were arrested at Bartram Trail on November 6, and the third was arrested at their home. The Youth Resource Deputy had received anonymous tips and learned that they talked about the threat, wrote about it on the bathroom wall and got rid of the marker they had used. The students were sentenced to twenty-one days at a youth detention center
while evaluations took place and after they were released they had to remain under curfew
and other restrictions until the case was finished. It concluded with the students having to reimburse the county and the sheriff's office for the expense of the deployment.
On April 18, 2007, the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office arrested a 14-year-old Bartram Trail High School student after he had posted an e-mail
to a friend stating he may conduct a mass school shooting. The e-mail stated that he planned to top the Virginia Tech massacre
of thirty-three deaths by killing a hundred students. The threat wasn't directed at Bartram Trail or any other school specifically nor was he in possession of any weapons. The friends parent intercepted the e-mail and reported it to the police. Authorities checked around the school and inside the lockers and found nothing suspicious. The student was charged with the "threat to throw, project, place or discharge any destructive device", a second degree felony. He had apparently made similar threats during the week that had gone unreported.
The land for Bartram Trail High School was purchased in January 1999 and was constructed by Arcadis. The Bartram Trail High School campus takes up one hundred and twenty acre
s of land and the school building takes up 190000 square feet (17,651.6 m²). The school building is a two-story octagon with an open-air courtyard
in the center. The cafeteria
and media center
are located within the main building, while the gymnasium
and auditorium
with a stage
are attached on the south and north sides, respectively. The outside of the campus has walkways, student, faculty and visitor parking, a parent drop-off section, a bus loop, a football and track stadium
, a baseball and softball field, tennis courts, general-use play fields, a stormwater treatment facility, water and sewer utilities and a wetland mitigation area.
s were setup on the east side of the campus. The number of portable buildings used by year is, as follows:
Additionally, for the 2007-2008 school year, a new permanent structure was built and opened at the northeast corner of the school to house the Ninth Grade Center. With the opening of Creekside High School
for the 2008-2009 school year, enrollment fell below capacity. The portables were no longer needed and were removed at the end of the 2007-2008 school year.
Bartram Trail has a variety of athletics programs, which is supervised by athletic director
, Barry Craig. Athletics offered at Bartram Trail include:
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(I.T.S.) in District 2. In 2003, under the direction of Carole Prior, troupe 6174 received several superiors at state level competition, the highest honor achievable. This accomplishment, in terms success for the standards of International Thespian Society, put Bartram’s theater program at par with Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
, a top tier theater school in Florida. The performers in this ensemble were Joseph DiGiovanni, Meaghan McCahill, Naomi Caple, Crystal Korabek, Trey Payment, John Clavier.
The current Director, Ava Fixel, is chairman of District 2. Bartram Trail is known for performing a fall musical, a night of one acts (several senior directed one-act plays), a spring play, and several other performances. This format is was established by Carole Prior and continues to this day.
The One-Act Competition is similar to the I.E. Competition. Each school instead performs one One-Act play and is critiqued by a rotation of judges. They then enter the ajudication room where the cast can hear feedback from the judges. The One-Act is under a strict set of rules including a set can not exceed a size of storage and nobody can step anywhere on stage or the timer starts which the One-Act is under a time limit. Bartram Trail has hosted the One-Act competition several times at the school. The past One-Act's Troupe 6174 has performed have been The Girl In The Mirror, Next Door and Tracks. Critics choices are chosen for the One Acts and are then performed at the I.T.S. State Festival. Awards are also given out to individuals who performed exceedingly well. Troupe 6174's Daniel "P-Rez" Perez was awarded Best Surporting Actor in Next Door in the 2008-2009 school year. In the 2009-2010 school year the One-Act Tracks made it to the state level where it received a superior. In the 2010-2011 school year Bartram's One-Act Reservations also went to the State Festival. Bartram was given this honor two years in a row along with P.K. Young and Stanton College Prep.
Bartram Trail performed Friedrich Dürrenmatt
's The Visit
for their Mainstage in 2008 and Sarah Ruhl
's "Eurydice
" in 2010. Hayley Cooper and Brandon Mayes played the famous opposites, Eurydice and Orpheus
Bartram Trail Also has a tendency to perform Rodger & Hammerstien's Musicals. For the past three years Troupe 6174 has performed Rodger & Hammerstien's Cinderella, Oklahoma! And South Pacific. However by picking a more modern play such as Jekyll and Hyde Bartram Trail saw a larger turnout at their musical than seen before.
trends show enrollment increases with each year.
The ethnicity
of Bartram Trail's students is as follows (last updated for the 2006-2007 school year):
High school
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in the St. Johns County School District
St. Johns County School District
St. Johns County School District is the public school district for St. Johns County, Florida. St. Johns County is home to three of the nation's best high schools according to Newsweek Magazine in 2008 .-History:*1866 - St...
, located in northwest St. Johns County
St. Johns County, Florida
St. Johns County is a county located in northeastern Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 190,039. The county seat is St. Augustine. Due to the inclusion of Ponte Vedra Beach, it is one of the highest-income counties in the United States....
, Florida
Florida
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(U.S.
United States
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) that opened in 2000. The school is ranked number 327 by Newsweek
Newsweek
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magazine in the top 1,300 high schools in the United States in 2008.
Academics
Bartram Trail's curriculum offers many departments in education in order to receive a high school diplomaHigh school diploma
A high school diploma is a diploma awarded for the completion of high school. In the United States and Canada, it is considered the minimum education required for government jobs and higher education. An equivalent is the GED.-Past diploma styles:...
. It includes: art classes
Art education
Art education is the area of learning that is based upon the visual, tangible arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practical fields such as commercial graphics and home furnishings...
, English studies
English studies
English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language , English linguistics English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S.,...
and literature
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
, mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, performing arts
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
, physical education classes, various science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and social studies
Social studies
Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
classes, vocational classes
Vocational education
Vocational education or vocational education and training is an education that prepares trainees for jobs that are based on manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academic, and totally related to a specific trade, occupation, or vocation...
, world and foreign language classes
Language education
Language education is the teaching and learning of a foreign or second language. Language education is a branch of applied linguistics.- Need for language education :...
, television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
production, band
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
, chorus
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
and turf management
Turf management
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.
Bartram Trail offers the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
The Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps is a Federal program sponsored by the United States Armed Forces in high schools across the United States...
(JROTC) class which teaches various academic studies along with character and life skills education based around the heritage and traditions of the United States Air Force
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
. The Bartram Trail High School Academy of Design and Building Construction is available to teach carpentry
Carpentry
A carpenter is a skilled craftsperson who works with timber to construct, install and maintain buildings, furniture, and other objects. The work, known as carpentry, may involve manual labor and work outdoors....
and in other fields such as interior design
Interior design
Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects...
, drafting
Technical drawing
Technical drawing, also known as drafting or draughting, is the act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or has to be constructed.Drafting is the language of industry....
and fashion design
Fashion design
Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories....
. In 2007, Bartram Trail got together with VyStar Credit Union
VyStar Credit Union
VyStar Credit Union is a state-chartered credit union headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida and regulated under the authority of the National Credit Union Administration . VyStar is Northeast Florida's largest credit union...
to form the Bartram Trail High School VyStar Academy of Business and Finance. The course teaches career opportunities with financial services
Financial services
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and business management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
industries. For students with disabilities, the Exceptional Student Education (ESE) program is available.
The Advanced Scholars Program at Bartram Trail gives advanced students the opportunity to participate in advanced placement
Advanced Placement Program
The Advanced Placement program is a curriculum in the United States and Canada sponsored by the College Board which offers standardized courses to high school students that are generally recognized to be equivalent to undergraduate courses in college...
, dual enrollment
Dual enrollment
In education, dual enrollment involved students being enrolled in two separate, academically related institutions. It may also refer to any individual who is participating in two related programs, but such a general form of usage is uncommon....
and honors
Honors course
Honors course is a distinction applied in the United States to certain classes to distinguish them from standard course offerings. The difference between a regular class and the honors class is not necessarily the amount of work, but the type of work required and the pace of studying...
courses in preparation for college. In May 2007, over 1,450 advanced placement exams were given with a passing rate of 54%.
The 2006-2007 school year saw 64% of the students who took the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test
The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or the FCAT , is the standardized test used in the primary and secondary public schools of Florida...
(FCAT) score the necessary 3 or above in the reading portion of the test and 89% score above the mark on the mathematics section. The FCAT Writing scores saw 92% of the students scoring a 3.5 or above.
Bartram Trail can give the graduating seniors a choice of scholarship
Scholarship
A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.-Types:...
s they can apply for, through the school, to get started with college
College
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. In 2006, seven Bartram Trail students earned scholarships when they became finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program
National Merit Scholarship Program
The National Merit Scholarship Program is a United States academic scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered by National Merit Scholarship Corporation , a privately funded, not-for-profit organization. The program began in 1955...
. The 2006-2007 school year graduation rate was 87.1%☭ with only a 1.0% drop out
Dropping out
Dropping out means leaving a group for either practical reasons, necessities or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves....
rate.
History
Bartram Trail High School was founded in the year 2000 and was named after the William Bartram Scenic Highway and Bartram TrailBartram Trail
The Bartram Trail follows the approximate route of 18th-century naturalist William Bartram’s southern journey from March, 1773 to January, 1777. Bartram explored much of the territory which is now the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and...
exploration route in the Northern St. Johns County
St. Johns County, Florida
St. Johns County is a county located in northeastern Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 190,039. The county seat is St. Augustine. Due to the inclusion of Ponte Vedra Beach, it is one of the highest-income counties in the United States....
area, and not after William Bartram
William Bartram
William Bartram was an American naturalist. The son of Ann and John Bartram, William Bartram and his twin sister Elizabeth were born in Kingsessing, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. As a boy, he accompanied his father on many of his travels, to the Catskill Mountains, the New Jersey Pine Barrens,...
himself. Bartram Trail and Pedro Menendez High School
Pedro Menendez High School
Pedro Menendez High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in southern St. Johns County, Florida . It was named for Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a sixteenth century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter who founded St...
were constructed to relieve overcrowding
Overpopulation
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at Allen D. Nease Senior High School
Allen D. Nease Senior High School
Allen D. Nease High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in Ponte Vedra, Florida that was established in 1981. The school is a member of the International Baccalaureate program. The principal is Mr...
and St. Augustine High School
St. Augustine High School (St. Augustine, Florida)
St. Augustine High School is the oldest public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in Saint Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida. Its students are grades 9 through 12...
. Bartram Trail and Pedro Menendez were the first new high schools built in the St. Johns County School District in twenty years, since Nease was opened in 1981. However, as the second school year at Bartram Trail began, the original capacity of 1,500 was exceeded with an enrollment of 1,529. By the 2002 school year, enrollment was at 1,840, more than 300 students above capacity.
In 2004, the school district projected Bartram Trail's 2007-2008 enrollment at over 3,000.
To reduce overcrowding at Bartram Trail and Nease High School, two new high schools, Ponte Vedra High School
Ponte Vedra High School
Ponte Vedra High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in northeast St. Johns County, Florida. The high school was constructed to relieve overcrowding at Allen D. Nease Senior High School.-Overview:...
and Creekside High School
Creekside High School (Florida)
Creekside High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in northwest St. Johns County, Florida . Creekside High School was constructed to relieve overcrowding at Bartram Trail High School.- Overview :...
, were constructed and opened for the 2008-2009 school year.
From 2002 to 2006, the Florida Department of Education graded Bartram Trail as an "A" school, but in 2007, it was changed to a "B" school. Bartram Trail is also named in Newsweek
Newsweek
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s annual list of the top 1,300 high schools in the United States. In 2005, Bartram Trail ranked 894, in 2006 it was ranked 579, in 2007 it was ranked 474, and in 2008 it was ranked 327.
"Victory V" statue
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...
, the Young Republicans Club at Bartram Trail wanted to get a piece of the destroyed World Trade Center
World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new...
for a memorial to those who died in the attacks. Students sent letters to the Office of Emergency Management in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, forwarded by the former principal, Jim Springfield. The office replied in May 2002 and agreed to let them own a piece of the World Trade Center debris as long as Springfield came to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
and got it himself. He received the debris on May 21, 2002; the piece was a six-foot-long piece of I-beam
I-beam
-beams, also known as H-beams, W-beams , rolled steel joist , or double-T are beams with an - or H-shaped cross-section. The horizontal elements of the "" are flanges, while the vertical element is the web...
steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
that weighed seven hundred pounds
Pound (mass)
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in the Imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement...
.
The concept behind the sculpture, created by art teacher Robert Kirk, was that the piece of World Trade Center debris was to be one-half of the letter "V" while the other half was to be made of pristine stainless steel
Stainless steel
In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox from French "inoxydable", is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5 or 11% chromium content by mass....
. The "V" was to stand for "Victory", and was to symbol
Symbol
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ize the "somber tragedy and the unity of American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
resolve." The sculpture was unveiled in Bartram Trail's courtyard on September 11, 2002, one year after the attacks, with Florida Governor Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is a prominent member of the Bush family: the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush; the younger brother of former President George W...
attending the ceremony. Only seventy-three pieces of World Trade Center debris were donated, and it is believed that this was the only piece in Florida and the only piece in an American high school.
Super Bowl XXXIX
For Super Bowl XXXIXSuper Bowl XXXIX
Super Bowl XXXIX was an American football game played on February 6, 2005, at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, to decide the National Football League champion following the 2004 regular season...
, in 2005, Bartram Trail High School was selected by the National Football League
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
as the practice facility for AFC champion
AFC Championship Game
The American Football Conference Championship Game is one of the two final playoff matches of the National Football League, the largest professional American football league in the United States. The game is played on the penultimate Sunday in January and determines the champion of the American...
New England Patriots
New England Patriots
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. Bartram Trail was selected by the NFL because the World Golf Village
World Golf Hall of Fame
The World Golf Hall of Fame is located at World Golf Village near St. Augustine, Florida, in the United States, and it is unusual among sports halls of fame in that a single site serves both men and women. It is supported by a consortium of 26 golf organizations from all over the world.The Hall of...
was chosen as the New England Patriots lodging and the practice field had to be within twenty minutes of their hotel. Bartram Trail was also selected because the school's location was remote with little traffic and interference and because the walk from the lockers to the field was short enough. Bartram Trail was the first high school ever that was chosen to be the practice facility for a Super Bowl
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League , the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather...
team.
Hurricane Frances
Hurricane Frances was the sixth named storm, the fourth hurricane, and the third major hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. The system crossing the open Atlantic during mid to late August, moving to the north of the Lesser Antilles while strengthening. Its outer bands affected Puerto...
and caused them to start over several times. Bartram Trail's field was considered one of the top five high school fields in Florida, but the problem was that the field was supported by dirt, instead of sand. To fix this, the NFL modified Bartram Trail's football field by building the fields up with two hundred loads of sand, adding a drainage system and building the slope, crown and type of grass to the same specifications as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. Students from the Bartram Trail turf management
Turf management
Turf management or pitchcare describes the work needed to keep a sporting pitch ready for use. This article looks at the various types of sporting pitches and the type of challenges which they present....
classes worked with George Toma, who had built all thirty-nine fields for the Super Bowl games, in building and maintaining the field.
After the two weeks of practice in Bartram Trail, a few of the New England Patriots and owner Robert Kraft
Robert Kraft
Robert K. Kraft is an American business magnate. He is the Chairman and was the Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate development and a private equity portfolio...
came in on the last day to talk with the students and thank them for their hospitality, as New England head coach Bill Belichick
Bill Belichick
William Stephen "Bill" Belichick is an American football head coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. After spending his first 15 seasons in the league as an assistant coach, Belichick got his first head coaching job with the Cleveland Browns in 1991...
had done earlier in a morning press conference.
Project Alaska Turf
In February 2007, Project Alaska Turf was started by Cathy Parker, a Bartram Trail High School parent and wife of a Bartram Trail football offensive coordinator. Project Alaska Turf was inspired by an Emmy AwardEmmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
winning ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
documentary by Wayne Drehs on a community in Barrow, Alaska
Barrow, Alaska
Barrow is the largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is one of the northernmost cities in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States of America, with nearby Point Barrow being the nation's northernmost point. Barrow's population was 4,212 at the...
. The documentary focused on a football program that was implemented in order to reverse high teenage suicide
Teenage suicide
Teenage suicide in the United States remains comparatively high in the 15 to 24 age group with 4,000 suicides in this age range in 2004, making it the third leading cause of death for those aged 15 to 24...
rates, accelerated drop out
Dropping out
Dropping out means leaving a group for either practical reasons, necessities or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves....
rates and increased teen drug abuse
Drug abuse
Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, refers to a maladaptive pattern of use of a substance that is not considered dependent. The term "drug abuse" does not exclude dependency, but is otherwise used in a similar manner in nonmedical contexts...
. Project Alaska Turf was funded by Bartram Trail, the Jacksonville Jaguars
Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
, ProGrass and the Grimes Companies. The project was aimed at raising money to provide a football team, the Barrow Whalers, an artificial turf field to replace their gravel-covered field. Since Barrow, Alaska is above the Arctic Circle
Arctic Circle
The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. For Epoch 2011, it is the parallel of latitude that runs north of the Equator....
, grass doesn't grow there, resulting in their football field being made of dirt and gravel and causing injury to the players.
The Barrow Whalers were invited to Florida on May 17 through the May 19 but the Whalers didn't arrive until June. Restaurateurs and other business owners provided them free room and board upon their arrival. During their visit to Jacksonville, they scrimmaged against another local team and toured Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, where the Jacksonville Jaguars play.
The field was completed with $700,000 generated from the donation; $100,000 short of the goal. The Bartram Trail community worked for a long period of time and managed to move the field from Florida to Alaska by trucks, boats, trains, and on airplanes with help from ten different companies. The field was opened in time for the Barrow Whalers first game on August 17, 2007, which they won, 18-16, after being down by two touchdown
Touchdown
A touchdown is a means of scoring in American and Canadian football. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchdown by advancing the ball into the opponent's end zone.-Description:...
s with three minutes left in the game. The game was the first live internet broadcast of a sporting event in the United States from north of the Arctic Circle and had NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
, ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
, ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
, and most of Alaska's media there to cover the event.
Controversies
Over Bartram Trail's brief history, there have been multiple bomb threatBomb threat
A bomb threat is generally defined as a threat, usually verbal or written, to detonate an explosive or incendiary device to cause property damage, death, or injuries, whether or not such a device actually exists...
s and a threat of a school shooting.
On October 16, 2001, at about 2:20 p.m., the school was under "code green" as a dark bag with the word "bomb" was found in the hallways on the second floor. Authorities evacuated
Emergency evacuation
Emergency evacuation is the immediate and rapid movement of people away from the threat or actual occurrence of a hazard. Examples range from the small scale evacuation of a building due to a bomb threat or fire to the large scale evacuation of a district because of a flood, bombardment or...
the school and kept everyone at least five hundred feet away. Near 5 p.m., the bomb squad had removed the bag out of the school with a long rope and drove away with it. The bag only contained stuffed recycled paper and a two-liter bottle with more recycled paper sticking out of it. Seven students were arrested in connection to the incident. Four had their charges dismissed while one boy plea
Plea
In legal terms, a plea is simply an answer to a claim made by someone in a civil or criminal case under common law using the adversary system. Colloquially, a plea has come to mean the assertion by a criminal defendant at arraignment, or otherwise in response to a criminal charge, whether that...
ded guilty
Guilt (law)
In criminal law, guilt is entirely externally defined by the state, or more generally a “court of law.” Being “guilty” of a criminal offense means that one has committed a violation of criminal law, or performed all the elements of the offense set out by a criminal statute...
to writing the note and was sentence
Sentence (law)
In law, a sentence forms the final explicit act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function. The sentence can generally involve a decree of imprisonment, a fine and/or other punishments against a defendant convicted of a crime...
d to probation
Probation
Probation literally means testing of behaviour or abilities. In a legal sense, an offender on probation is ordered to follow certain conditions set forth by the court, often under the supervision of a probation officer...
and community service
Community service
Community service is donated service or activity that is performed by someone or a group of people for the benefit of the public or its institutions....
.
Arson
Arson is the crime of intentionally or maliciously setting fire to structures or wildland areas. It may be distinguished from other causes such as spontaneous combustion and natural wildfires...
against state-owned property", a second-degree felony
Felony
A felony is a serious crime in the common law countries. The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods; other crimes were called misdemeanors...
. The threat was written on the partition between bathroom stalls, reported as saying something like "This school will be blown to bits at noon". The threat was specific for noon on November 5, 2002.
During the time of the threat, the school was evacuated and searched by deputies and explosives detection dogs
Police dog
A police dog, often referred to as a "K-9 dog" in some areas , is a dog that is trained specifically to assist police and other law-enforcement personnel in their work...
, but nothing was found. Two of the students were arrested at Bartram Trail on November 6, and the third was arrested at their home. The Youth Resource Deputy had received anonymous tips and learned that they talked about the threat, wrote about it on the bathroom wall and got rid of the marker they had used. The students were sentenced to twenty-one days at a youth detention center
Youth detention center
A youth detention center, also known as a juvenile detention center , juvenile hall or, more colloquially as juvie, is a secure residential facility for young people, often termed juvenile delinquents, awaiting court hearings and/or placement in long-term care facilities and programs...
while evaluations took place and after they were released they had to remain under curfew
Curfew
A curfew is an order specifying a time after which certain regulations apply. Examples:# An order by a government for certain persons to return home daily before a certain time...
and other restrictions until the case was finished. It concluded with the students having to reimburse the county and the sheriff's office for the expense of the deployment.
On April 18, 2007, the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office arrested a 14-year-old Bartram Trail High School student after he had posted an e-mail
E-mail
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
to a friend stating he may conduct a mass school shooting. The e-mail stated that he planned to top the Virginia Tech massacre
Virginia Tech massacre
The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. In two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, the perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people...
of thirty-three deaths by killing a hundred students. The threat wasn't directed at Bartram Trail or any other school specifically nor was he in possession of any weapons. The friends parent intercepted the e-mail and reported it to the police. Authorities checked around the school and inside the lockers and found nothing suspicious. The student was charged with the "threat to throw, project, place or discharge any destructive device", a second degree felony. He had apparently made similar threats during the week that had gone unreported.
Campus
Acre
The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.The acre is related...
s of land and the school building takes up 190000 square feet (17,651.6 m²). The school building is a two-story octagon with an open-air courtyard
Courtyard
A court or courtyard is an enclosed area, often a space enclosed by a building that is open to the sky. These areas in inns and public buildings were often the primary meeting places for some purposes, leading to the other meanings of court....
in the center. The cafeteria
Cafeteria
A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...
and media center
Hybrid library
Hybrid library is a term used by librarians to describe libraries containing a mix of traditional print library resources and the growing number of electronic resources.-Overview:...
are located within the main building, while the gymnasium
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...
and auditorium
Auditorium
An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances at venues such as theatres. For movie theaters, the number of auditoriums is expressed as the number of screens.- Etymology :...
with a stage
Stage (theatre)
In theatre or performance arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience...
are attached on the south and north sides, respectively. The outside of the campus has walkways, student, faculty and visitor parking, a parent drop-off section, a bus loop, a football and track stadium
Stadium
A modern stadium is a place or venue for outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.)Pausanias noted that for about half a century the only event...
, a baseball and softball field, tennis courts, general-use play fields, a stormwater treatment facility, water and sewer utilities and a wetland mitigation area.
Extensions
The Bartram Trail school building was originally designed to hold 1,500 students, but enrollment for the 2005-2006 school year exceeded 2,500. To provide classrooms needed immediately, portable buildingPortable building
A portable building, or demountable building , is a building designed and built to be movable rather than permanently located. A common modern design is sometimes called a modular building, but portable buildings can be different in that they are more often used temporarily and taken away later....
s were setup on the east side of the campus. The number of portable buildings used by year is, as follows:
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Additionally, for the 2007-2008 school year, a new permanent structure was built and opened at the northeast corner of the school to house the Ninth Grade Center. With the opening of Creekside High School
Creekside High School (Florida)
Creekside High School is a public high school in the St. Johns County School District, located in northwest St. Johns County, Florida . Creekside High School was constructed to relieve overcrowding at Bartram Trail High School.- Overview :...
for the 2008-2009 school year, enrollment fell below capacity. The portables were no longer needed and were removed at the end of the 2007-2008 school year.
Athletics
Athletic director
An athletic director is an administrator at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs...
, Barry Craig. Athletics offered at Bartram Trail include:
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Softball Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand... Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native... Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... Track and field Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area... Winter guard Winter guard is an indoor color guard activity, derived from marching band or drum & bugle corps. Unlike traditional color guard, winter guard is performed indoors, usually in a gymnasium or an indoor arena... Wrestling Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position... |
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| Sport | Year | Championship |
| Baseball | 2007-08 | District champions |
| State playoffs sub-regional champions | ||
| Cheerleading | 2007-08 | Florida Athletic Coaches' Association State 5A title |
| Boys cross country | 2006-07 | District champions |
| Conference champions | ||
| 3rd place in state championship | ||
| Girls cross country | 2000-01 | 15th place at state championship |
| 2004-05 | Conference champions | |
| 9th place at state championship | ||
| 2005-06 | Conference champions | |
| 10th place at state championship | ||
| 2006-07 | District, Conference & Regional champions | |
| 3rd place at state championship | ||
| 2007-08 | District, Conference & Regional champions | |
| State champions | ||
| 2008-09 | District, Conference & Regional champions | |
| State champions | ||
| Dance | 2001-02 | National Champions |
| 2007-08 | National Champions | |
| 2008-09 | National Champions | |
| Football | 2005-06 | 5A District 2 champions |
| 2006-07 | 5A District 2 champions | |
| 2007-08 | 5A District 2 champions | |
| Regional champions | ||
| Swimming | 2005-06 | Conference champions |
| 2006-07 | Conference champions | |
| 2007-08 | Conference champions | |
| Boys track and field | 2004-05 | District champions |
| 2006-07 | Conference champions | |
| 2007-08 | Conference champions | |
| Girls track and field | 2001-02 | District champions |
| 2002-03 | District champions | |
| 2004-05 | Conference champions | |
| 2005-06 | Conference champions | |
| 2006-07 | Conference, District champions | |
| 2007-08 | Conference, District champions | |
| 2008-09 | Conference champions | |
| Volleyball | 2007-08 | District champions |
| Episcopal tournament champions | ||
| Girls Softball | 2007-08 | District & Regional champions |
| 5A State champions | ||
| 2008-09 | Conference, District & Regional champions | |
| 5A State champions | ||
| 2009-10 | Conference, District & Regional champions | |
| Boys Golf | 2008-09 | District, Conference & Regional champions |
| State champions | ||
Bartram Trail Choir Department
The Bartram Trail Choir Department offers three courses: Concert choir (beginner), Women's Chorale (intermediate girl's group), and Vocal Ensemble (advanced level choir). Barbara Mattingly has been chorus director for the past seven years. The choir has many achievements over the years including numerous superior ratings at the district and state level music assessments, annual performances at Epcot Center's Candlelight Processional, and a 2009 performance on Jacksonville's First Coast News.http://www-bths.stjohns.k12.fl.us/academics/chorus
The Spirit of Bartram
The Spirit of Bartram is the marching band of Bartram Trail High School. Since its inception in 2000, it has been under the direction of Jason Duckett. In 2004 the school brought in a second band director, Rick Fowler, who later went on to direct the band at Creekside High School. Over the years, it has emerged into a successful high school marching band earning many accolades. The marching band has received straight superiors in its Florida Bandmaster's Association District 21 marching assessments in every year of its existence. In the summer of 2008, the Spirit of Bartram saw its band split with underclassmen zoned for the new Creekside High School moving to the Power of Creekside marching band.Marching Shows
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| Queen Queen (band) Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor... |
A Southern State of Mind | Colors | Mary Poppins Mary Poppins Mary Poppins is a series of children's books written by P. L. Travers and originally illustrated by Mary Shepard. The books centre on a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London and into the Banks' household to care for their... |
Journey Journey (band) Journey is an American rock band formed in 1973 in San Francisco by former members of Santana. The band has gone through several phases; its strongest commercial success occurred between the 1978 and 1987, after which it temporarily disbanded... |
Bee Gees Bee Gees The Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a... |
ABBA ABBA ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog... |
Moulin Rouge! Moulin Rouge! Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème... |
Across the Universe Across the Universe (film) Across the Universe is a musical romantic drama film directed by Julie Taymor, produced by Revolution Studios, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film's plot is centered around songs by The Beatles. It was released in the United States on October 12, 2007. The script is based on an original... |
Pat Benatar Pat Benatar Pat Benatar is an American singer and four-time Grammy winner. She had considerable commercial success particularly in the United States... |
Beyoncé | Bryan Adams Bryan Adams Bryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written... |
Bartram Trail Wind Symphony
BTHS boasts a wind symphony that is also a successful music program in Northeast Florida. The Wind Symphony is a concert band that contains the most skilled music players in the school's band program. Upon completing marching season, this ensemble meets to prepare advanced music for performance at the district and state levels of the Florida Bandmaster's Association (FBA) Music Performance Assessments (MPA). In the spring of 2006, the Wind Symphony received straight superiors at the state concert FBA assessment earning them the Otto Kraushaar Award.Theater
Bartram Trail's Theater Program is home to Troupe 6174 of the International Thespian SocietyInternational Thespian Society
The International Thespian Society is an honorary organization for high-school and middle-school theatre students located at more than 3,600 affiliated secondary schools across the United States, Canada, and abroad. The International Thespian Society was founded in Fairmont, West Virginia...
(I.T.S.) in District 2. In 2003, under the direction of Carole Prior, troupe 6174 received several superiors at state level competition, the highest honor achievable. This accomplishment, in terms success for the standards of International Thespian Society, put Bartram’s theater program at par with Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
Douglas Anderson School of the Arts
Douglas Anderson School of the Arts is a magnet high school in the San Marco neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida. The school opened in the 1922 as a primary school specifically for African American students. The school is named after local civil rights activist, Douglas Anderson...
, a top tier theater school in Florida. The performers in this ensemble were Joseph DiGiovanni, Meaghan McCahill, Naomi Caple, Crystal Korabek, Trey Payment, John Clavier.
The current Director, Ava Fixel, is chairman of District 2. Bartram Trail is known for performing a fall musical, a night of one acts (several senior directed one-act plays), a spring play, and several other performances. This format is was established by Carole Prior and continues to this day.
I.T.S. District 2
Bartram Trail participates every year in the District 2 I.E. Competition and District 2 One-Act Competition. Students in the troupe can perform several things including monologues, duet acting scenes, small ensamble acting scenes, large ensamble acting scenes, solo musical pieces, duet musical pieces, small group musical pieces, large group musical pieces, pantomimes, play-writing workshop, scene design workshop, and costume design workshop. Each catergory can be broken down to different rooms and given three different judges. Each set of judges chooses a "critics choice" a performance that they favorited. At the end of the day of performances, all the critics choice get to perform in front of all the schools who participated in the festival that day.The One-Act Competition is similar to the I.E. Competition. Each school instead performs one One-Act play and is critiqued by a rotation of judges. They then enter the ajudication room where the cast can hear feedback from the judges. The One-Act is under a strict set of rules including a set can not exceed a size of storage and nobody can step anywhere on stage or the timer starts which the One-Act is under a time limit. Bartram Trail has hosted the One-Act competition several times at the school. The past One-Act's Troupe 6174 has performed have been The Girl In The Mirror, Next Door and Tracks. Critics choices are chosen for the One Acts and are then performed at the I.T.S. State Festival. Awards are also given out to individuals who performed exceedingly well. Troupe 6174's Daniel "P-Rez" Perez was awarded Best Surporting Actor in Next Door in the 2008-2009 school year. In the 2009-2010 school year the One-Act Tracks made it to the state level where it received a superior. In the 2010-2011 school year Bartram's One-Act Reservations also went to the State Festival. Bartram was given this honor two years in a row along with P.K. Young and Stanton College Prep.
Troupe 6174's Shows
Bartram Trail usually performs their musical in the fall but because Troupe 6174 participated in the Mainstage competition for the 2008-2009 school year and the 2010-2011 school year, their musical was postponed. When a school performs a Mainstage, judges attend the show to adjudicate the performance, if it is performed well enough it can be showcased at the State I.T.S. festival later that school year.Bartram Trail performed Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II. The politically active author's work included avant-garde dramas, philosophically deep crime novels, and often macabre satire...
's The Visit
The Visit
The Visit is a 1956 tragicomic play by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt.-Plot summary:...
for their Mainstage in 2008 and Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.-Biography:Ruhl was born in Wilmette, Illinois. Originally, she intended to be a poet. However, after she studied under Paula Vogel at Brown University , she was convinced to switch to playwrighting...
's "Eurydice
Eurydice
Eurydice in Greek mythology, was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo . She was the wife of Orpheus, who loved her dearly; on their wedding day, he played joyful songs as his bride danced through the meadow. One day, a satyr saw and pursued Eurydice, who stepped on a venomous snake,...
" in 2010. Hayley Cooper and Brandon Mayes played the famous opposites, Eurydice and Orpheus
Bartram Trail Also has a tendency to perform Rodger & Hammerstien's Musicals. For the past three years Troupe 6174 has performed Rodger & Hammerstien's Cinderella, Oklahoma! And South Pacific. However by picking a more modern play such as Jekyll and Hyde Bartram Trail saw a larger turnout at their musical than seen before.
| Type | 2002-2003 | 2003-2004 | 2004-2005 | 2005-2006 | 2006-2007 | 2007-2008 | 2008-2009 | 2009-2010 | 2010-2011 |
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| Play: | Bullshot Crummond | (Murder Mystery, Unknown title) | Comedy of Errors | A Midsummer's Night Dream | Pride & Prejudice | Macbeth | The Visit | Romeo & Juliet | Eurydice and Alice in Wonderland |
| Musical: | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | The Boyfriend | HMS Pinafore | Fiddler On The Roof | Cinderella | Oklahoma! | South Pacific | Jekyll & Hyde | Thoroughly Modern Millie |
BeaTPAC
In 2005, for their senior project, Daniel Austin, Nicole Johnson, and Juliet Fixel, started the Bartram Trail Performing Arts Camp (BeaTPAC) as a summer program. Children aged 6–14 are placed into age groups and learn about Theater, Musical Theater, Orff, and Dancing. Each year has a different theme; in 2010 it was "BeaTPAC Goes Green." Next year in 2011, it will be "Happiness is..." Campers choose two elective classes, which last year included Improv, American Idol, Modern Dancing, Stage Combat, Pantomime (Miming), BeaTPAC Rhythms, Singing and Hip-Hop Dancing. At the conclusion of the 2-week session, campers perform a showcase of what they've learned. The camp has grown from a camp of 25 campers the first year, to the 2010 size of over 150.Principals
Bartram Trail High School has had four principals in its eight year history. The current principal is Dawn Sapp.| Principal | First year | Last year | Length of tenure by academic term Academic term An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms... s |
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| James Springfield | 2000–2001 | 2001–2002 | 2 years |
| Tim Forson | 2002–2003 | 2005–2006 | 4 years |
| Brennan Asplen | 2006–2007 | 2010–2011 | 5 years |
| Dawn Sapp | 2011–2012 | current | 1 year |
Other administration
Other current administration at Bartram Trail include:| Name | Title | Name | Title |
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| Trevor Abbs | Dean Dean (education) In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both... |
Craig Davis | Assistant principal Vice-principal In larger school systems, a principal is often assisted by someone known as a vice-principal or assistant principal. Unlike the principal, the vice-principal does not have quite the decision-making authority that the principal carries... |
| Andrew Hurley | Guidance counselor School counselor A school counselor is a counselor and an educator who works in elementary, middle, and high schools to provide academic, career, college access, and personal/social competencies to K-12 students... |
Barbara Campanini | Dean |
| Barry Craig | Athletic director Athletic director An athletic director is an administrator at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, who oversees the work of coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic programs... |
Aretha Graham | Registrar Registrar (academic) In education outside the United Kingdom, a registrar or registrary is an official in an academic institution who handles student records. Typically, a registrar processes registration requests, schedules classes and maintains class lists, enforces the rules for entering or leaving classes, and... |
| Linda Howard | Guidance counselor | ? | Guidance counselor |
| Chris Phelps | Assistant principal | Pete Peaver | Dean |
Demographics
Bartram Trail's enrollmentEducation
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
trends show enrollment increases with each year.
| 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,246 | 1,529 | 1,840 | 2,124 | 2,281 | 2,486 | 2,615 | 2,627 |
The ethnicity
Ethnic group
An ethnic group is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, a common culture and/or an ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy...
of Bartram Trail's students is as follows (last updated for the 2006-2007 school year):
| Ethnicity: | School Percentage: |
District Percentage: |
State Average: |
|---|---|---|---|
| White White people White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin... |
87.8% | 83% | 47% |
| Hispanic Hispanic Hispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ... |
4.5% | 9% | 24% |
| Black Black people The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a... |
4.2% | 4% | 23% |
| Asian Asian people Asian people or Asiatic people is a term with multiple meanings that refers to people who descend from a portion of Asia's population.- Central Asia :... /Pacific Islander Pacific Islander Pacific Islander , is a geographic term to describe the indigenous inhabitants of any of the three major sub-regions of Oceania: Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia.According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, these three regions, together with their islands consist of:Polynesia:... |
1.8% | 2% | 2% |
| Multiracial Multiracial The terms multiracial and mixed-race describe people whose ancestries come from multiple races. Unlike the term biracial, which often is only used to refer to having parents or grandparents of two different races, the term multiracial may encompass biracial people but can also include people with... /Other |
1.7% | 2% | 3% |
See also
- List of high schools in St. Johns County