Bell County High School is one of three public high schools in
Bell County, Kentucky
Bell County is a county located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 24,097. Its county seat is Pineville. The county was formed in 1867, during the Reconstruction era from parts of Kn ...
, United States, and the only one in the county's school district (the other two,
Middlesboro and Pineville, are operated by city-based "independent" districts). The school, which accommodates grades 9–12, became the county district's only public high school in the 1980s when it absorbed Lone Jack High School. Locally referred to as BCHS, Bell High, or Bell County, the current building was built after the flood of 1977 and succeeds the former high school (now known as Old Bell County High School, or simply Old Bell High) which is located in a flood plain and was heavily flooded in '77. Today's campus sits on a hill above
US 25E about 3 miles (5 km) south of the county seat of
Pineville.
Notable alumni
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George Samuel Hurst - inventor of the first
touchscreen
A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input ('touch panel') and output ('display') device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an information processing system. The display is ofte ...
technology.
[Hurst, G. S., Warmack, R. J., Richie, R. H., Bouldin, D. W., & Ritchie, D. (31 May 2011). Multiple-touch sensor. U.S. Patent No. 7,952,564. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.]
References
Sources
*http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/32175
*https://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&rlz=1I7ADFA_en&um=1&q=pictures+of+bell+county+high+school&sa=N&start=40&ndsp=20
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Schools in Bell County, Kentucky
Public high schools in Kentucky