Henrico High School
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Henrico High School is a high school
located just outside the Richmond city line in Henrico County, Virginia
and operated by the Henrico County Public Schools
. It is unique among Henrico County High Schools in that it has two specialty centers—the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years
/Diploma Program
and the Center for the Arts Program (CFA). It is one of the oldest schools in Henrico County, and it has a highly diverse student population.
In a June 8, 2009 online exclusive, Newsweek Magazine ranked Henrico High School number 928 in its 1500 top US high schools. Henrico High was the only Henrico County School to make the list in 2009. On October 10, 2007, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine
spoke at the Senior Convocation.
and J. R. Tucker High School.
The school has recently added 2 new buildings to its campus, and has just finished remodeling its athletic building.
. Henrico was the first high school to harbor the IB program, but Tucker soon followed after. Henrico is a better fit for IB, so that students who go from middle school into high school, doing IB will be able to attend the same high school together. If the IB program hadn't spread to Tucker, then Tucker would most likely have remained French and Spanish Immersion; nothing less, nothing more.
), dance
, visual arts
, and theatre
programs. All areas cover a variety of topics that are relevant to their discipline with a variety of instructors, including guest artists like Tiffany Haas, who toured with Wicked as Glinda the year after she visited CFA. VMT students are trained in music, acting, dance, ensemble, and performance by Karen Moody. Vicki Fink teaches dance students ballet, modern, jazz, variety dance, composition, and performance. Visual artists cover topics such as art history, artist vocabulary, while developing artistic skills, develop their unique style of art to build a body of strong work that reflects themselves as artists and studying related areas. Theater involves becoming versed in acting, movement, improvisation, creative writing, dramatic literature, and performance with instruction from Todd Ritter. Showcases specified for each division during each semester are performed twice a year; one involving all divisions in the fall, and division specified showcases in the spring. Seniors in each division also have a showcase in the spring, displaying and reflecting their work in the Center over the past four years. Guest artists are often brought into class to enhance the learning experience of the Center students. Through the center, students are presented with many scholarship opportunities like working in the local area's arts fields and participating in internships. Currently, 100% of recent CFA graduates are in college. 70-80% end up studying their disciples on a university level. Graduates often end up at programs at NYU, UCLA, Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory, Christopher Newport University, James Madison University, and Belmont University.
and gold
, and the mascot
is the Warrior
.
Henrico has one main rival: Highland Springs High School
. In the past, John Marshall High School was considered a big rival, but despite being less than two miles apart, the two schools are in different sports districts and thus don't compete often. A rivalry with Deep Run High School
has also developed in recent years.
Henrico High School has the following varsity sports teams:
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located just outside the Richmond city line in Henrico County, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
and operated by the Henrico County Public Schools
Henrico County Public Schools
The Henrico County Public Schools system is a Virginia school division that operates as a functional and independent branch of the Henrico County, Virginia, county government, and administers public schools in the county. Henrico County Public Schools has five International Baccalaureate schools--J.R...
. It is unique among Henrico County High Schools in that it has two specialty centers—the International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years
IB Middle Years Programme
The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme is an educational programme intended for students aged approximately 11 to 16 . Thus, in the United States the programme is often taught throughout the middle school years and the first two years of high school...
/Diploma Program
IB Diploma Programme
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is a two-year educational programme for students aged 16–19that provides an internationally accepted qualification for entry into higher education, and is recognised by universities worldwide. It was developed in the early to mid-1960s in Geneva by...
and the Center for the Arts Program (CFA). It is one of the oldest schools in Henrico County, and it has a highly diverse student population.
In a June 8, 2009 online exclusive, Newsweek Magazine ranked Henrico High School number 928 in its 1500 top US high schools. Henrico High was the only Henrico County School to make the list in 2009. On October 10, 2007, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine is a Virginia politician. Kaine served as the 70th Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010, and was the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011...
spoke at the Senior Convocation.
Facilities
The high school features an outdoor campus, built in the same style as Varina High SchoolVarina High School
Varina High School is located in eastern Henrico County, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia. The current principal of the school is Tracie Omohoundro.-Programs:...
and J. R. Tucker High School.
The school has recently added 2 new buildings to its campus, and has just finished remodeling its athletic building.
International Baccalaureate
Henrico High is a member of the International Baccalaureate Program. This program encompasses the MYP program for 9th and 10th grade students and the IB Diploma for the 11th and 12th graders. Throughout the program, a long list of assessments need to be completed for the international program, including personal projects, group 4 experiments, and the extended essaysExtended Essay
The extended essay is a mandatory core component of the IB Diploma Programme. It is a research paper of up to 4,000 words giving students an opportunity to conduct independent research or investigation on a topic that interests them...
. Henrico was the first high school to harbor the IB program, but Tucker soon followed after. Henrico is a better fit for IB, so that students who go from middle school into high school, doing IB will be able to attend the same high school together. If the IB program hadn't spread to Tucker, then Tucker would most likely have remained French and Spanish Immersion; nothing less, nothing more.
Center for the Arts
Currently headed by Dr. Stephanie Poxon, the CFA Speciality Center includes VMT (Vocal Music TheaterMusical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
), dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, visual arts
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
, and theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
programs. All areas cover a variety of topics that are relevant to their discipline with a variety of instructors, including guest artists like Tiffany Haas, who toured with Wicked as Glinda the year after she visited CFA. VMT students are trained in music, acting, dance, ensemble, and performance by Karen Moody. Vicki Fink teaches dance students ballet, modern, jazz, variety dance, composition, and performance. Visual artists cover topics such as art history, artist vocabulary, while developing artistic skills, develop their unique style of art to build a body of strong work that reflects themselves as artists and studying related areas. Theater involves becoming versed in acting, movement, improvisation, creative writing, dramatic literature, and performance with instruction from Todd Ritter. Showcases specified for each division during each semester are performed twice a year; one involving all divisions in the fall, and division specified showcases in the spring. Seniors in each division also have a showcase in the spring, displaying and reflecting their work in the Center over the past four years. Guest artists are often brought into class to enhance the learning experience of the Center students. Through the center, students are presented with many scholarship opportunities like working in the local area's arts fields and participating in internships. Currently, 100% of recent CFA graduates are in college. 70-80% end up studying their disciples on a university level. Graduates often end up at programs at NYU, UCLA, Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory, Christopher Newport University, James Madison University, and Belmont University.
Sports
The school colors are greenGreen
Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometres. In the subtractive color system, it is not a primary color, but is created out of a mixture of yellow and blue, or yellow and cyan; it is considered...
and gold
Gold (color)
Gold, also called golden, is one of a variety of orange-yellow color blends used to give the impression of the color of the element gold....
, and the mascot
Mascot
The term mascot – defined as a term for any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name...
is the Warrior
Warrior
A warrior is a person skilled in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based society that recognizes a separate warrior class.-Warrior classes in tribal culture:...
.
Henrico has one main rival: Highland Springs High School
Highland Springs High School
Highland Springs High School is a high school located at 15 South Oak Avenue in Highland Springs, Virginia. First opened in 1907, it is among the oldest schools in Henrico County/Richmond, Virginia...
. In the past, John Marshall High School was considered a big rival, but despite being less than two miles apart, the two schools are in different sports districts and thus don't compete often. A rivalry with Deep Run High School
Deep Run High School
-History:Deep Run High School was named after one of Henrico County's first schools: Deep Run School. Deep Run School was a two-room schoolhouse that can still be found on the grounds of Short Pump Elementary School...
has also developed in recent years.
Henrico High School has the following varsity sports teams:
- BaseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
(boys) - BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
(boys and girls) - CheerleadingCheerleadingCheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
(coed) - Dance Team (coed)
- FootballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
(boys) - GymnasticsGymnasticsGymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
(girls) - Marching Warrior Band (coed)
- Soccer (boys and girls)
- SoftballSoftballSoftball 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...
(girls) - Step team (boys and girls)
- TennisTennisTennis 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...
(boys and girls) - Track and FieldTrack and fieldTrack 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...
(boys and girls) - VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
(boys and girls) - WrestlingScholastic wrestlingScholastic wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the high school and middle school levels in the United States. This wrestling style is essentially Collegiate wrestling with some slight modifications. It is currently...
(coed)
Marching Warrior Band
Henrico High School has a great Marching Band, one of the best in Henrico County. The band was recently under the direction of John Scott and is composed of about 100 band members. As of July 2010, the band is under the direction of Hosea C Brower. The "Warrior Band" was ranked fourth in the country in 2006 (Alabama). The "300 Warrior Nation" came back to win the National Asymmetrix Competition in 2007 (Greensboro, North Carolina), claiming their title as "The Best Band In ALL The Land". The "Warrior Nation" set a record, being the first AA division band (relatively small) to win this national competition. They ranked third in the 2008 national competition. In the 2009 fall season the band has done much better, winning three out of four competitions thus far. Winning the national level competition in Atlanta, Georgia is their main goal.Clubs
- Chess Club
- Model UN
- Debate TeamDebateDebate or debating is a method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examines consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examines what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is a technique of persuasion...
- Habitat for Humanity
- Key ClubKey ClubKey Club International is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization whose goal is to teach leadership through serving others. Key Club International is a part of the Kiwanis International family of service-leadership programs...
- HHS Penpal Club
- Gospel Choir
- Junior Class Council
- National Honor SocietyNational Honor SocietyThe National Honor Society is a recognition program for high school students in grades 10-12 in the United States and in several other countries...
- Mu Alpha ThetaMu Alpha ThetaMu Alpha Theta is a United States mathematics honor society for high schools and two-year colleges. It has over 89,000 student members in more than 1,800 schools worldwide. Its main goals are to inspire keen interest in mathematics, develop strong scholarship in the subject, and promote the...
, Math National Honor Society - Spanish National Honor SocietySpanish National Honor SocietySpanish National Honor Society is an academic honor society focused on Spanish language excellence in secondary education and promotes a continuity of interest in Spanish studies. The group, which was established in 1953 in the United States is sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of...
- French National Honor Society
- Tri-MTri-MTri-M Music Honor Society, formerly known as Modern Music Masters, is a high school and middle school music honor society. Each school has its own chapter, which is run by the students but supervised by an advisor or sponsor, usually a school teacher...
, Music National Honor Society - Gay-Straight AllianceGay-straight allianceGay–straight alliances are student organizations, found primarily in North American high schools and universities, that are intended to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth and their straight allies .-Goal:The goal of most, if not all,...
- NJROTC
- Junior State of AmericaJunior State of AmericaThe Junior State of America is an American non-partisan student-run youth organization. It is also the largest high school student-run organization in the country...
- Quizbowl TeamQuizbowlQuiz bowl is a family of games of questions and answers on all topics of human knowledge that is commonly played by students enrolled in high school or college, although some participants begin in middle or even elementary school...
- Universal Language ClubLanguageLanguage may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
- Schools for SchoolsSchools for SchoolsSchools for Schools is a fundraising program created by the nonprofit Invisible Children Inc. The goal of the program is to have students and schools in the western world creatively compete to raise money and rebuild schools in northern Uganda, a region whose education standards and facilities have...
/Invisible ChildrenInvisible ChildrenInvisible Children: Rough Cut is a 2003 American documentary film. Its subject is the abduction and forced enlistment of children by the sectarian Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.-Synopsis:... - Asian Culture Club
- Environmental Club
- Technology Student AssociationTechnology Student AssociationThe Technology Student Association is an international Career and Technical Student Organization made up of over 150,000 Middle School and High School Technology Education Students. TSA is the premier CTSO dedicated to STEM Standards: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics...
- Sophisticated LadiesSophisticated LadiesSophisticated Ladies is a musical revue based on the music of Duke Ellington.After fifteen previews, the Broadway production, conceived by Donald McKayle, directed by Michael Smuin, and choreographed by McKayle, Smuin, Henry LeTang, Bruce Heath, and Mercedes Ellington, opened on March 1, 1981 at...
- Distinguished GentlemenGentlemanThe term gentleman , in its original and strict signification, denoted a well-educated man of good family and distinction, analogous to the Latin generosus...
- Drama ClubDramaDrama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
- Disciples of Christ Club/Group
- Future Business Leaders of America
- Warrior Film SocietyFilmA film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
- History Club of HenricoHistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
Notable alumni
Alumni include:- Billy McMullenBilly McMullenWilbur "Billy" Anthony McMullen, Jr. is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
, WR, Detroit Lions - Charles Steger, President of Virginia Tech
- David BaldacciDavid BaldacciDavid Baldacci is a bestselling American novelist.-Biography:Baldacci received a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. As a student, Baldacci wrote short stories in his spare time, and later practiced law for nine years near Washington, D.C....
, Best Selling Author - Allan BristowAllan BristowAllan Mercer Bristow Jr. is a retired American professional basketball player, coach, and executive. Bristow played college basketball at Virginia Tech, and was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2nd round of the 1973 NBA Draft...
, former NBA player, coach and general manager