Millbrook High School (Virginia)
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Millbrook High School is a high school located in Winchester, Virginia
Winchester, Virginia
Winchester is an independent city located in the northwestern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the USA. The city's population was 26,203 according to the 2010 Census...

. The school is one of three high schools in the Frederick County Public School System
Frederick County Public Schools (Virginia)
Frederick County Public Schools is a public school system run for the residents of Frederick County, Virginia.-High schools:*James Wood High School, Winchester*Millbrook High School, Winchester*Sherando High School, Stephens City...

. It is one of the newest schools in the area, having been established in 2003, intended to relieve overpopulation in nearby James Wood High School
James Wood High School
James Wood High School is located at the northern tip of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia and is a part of the Frederick County Public School system. It is located at 161 Apple Pie Ridge Road....

 and Sherando High School
Sherando High School
Sherando High School is a public secondary school within Frederick County, Virginia, and is part of Frederick County Public Schools. The school is located east of the town of Stephens City.-History:...

.

Athletics

Millbrook High School plays in the AA Northwestern District
AA Northwestern District
The AA Northwestern District is a high school conference in the state of Virginia that currently includes Frederick County and Warren County. The Northwestern District member schools compete in Region II with the schools from the AA Dulles District, AA Jefferson District, and AA Evergreen...

. Despite its short athletic history, it has established strong programs in football
American football
American 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...

 golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, basketball
Basketball
Basketball 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...

, track
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...

, swimming
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...

, baseball
Baseball
Baseball 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...

, wrestling
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...

,and cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading 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...

 earning numerous district titles and back-to-back regional runner-up and regional titles in basketball.

Activities

Millbrook offers many activities to its students which include Academic Team, Debate, Forensics, School Literary Magazine, School Newspaper, Theatre/Drama, Yearbook, Interact Club, Key Club, Leo Club, Book Club, DECA, FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) FCCLA (Family Career and Community Leaders of America), FEA (Future Educators of America), FFA (Future Farmers of America), French Club, Japanese Club, NAHS (National Art Honor Society), NHS (National Honors Society), SCA (Student Council Association), Science Club, TSA (Technology Student Association), Band, and Choir.

See also

  • Frederick County Public Schools
    Frederick County Public Schools (Virginia)
    Frederick County Public Schools is a public school system run for the residents of Frederick County, Virginia.-High schools:*James Wood High School, Winchester*Millbrook High School, Winchester*Sherando High School, Stephens City...

  • Frederick County, Virginia
    Frederick County, Virginia
    Frederick County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is included in the Winchester, Virginia-West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was formed in 1743 by the splitting of Orange County. For ten years it was the home of George Washington. As of 2010, the population was...


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