Bendle High School is a

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in Burton,

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, United States. It serves grades 9-12 for the

Bendle Public Schools Bendle Public School District is a public school district in Burton, Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and in the Genesee Intermediate School District Genesee Intermediate School District is an Intermediate school district in Mi ...

History

In 1928 in the southern portion of what was then Burton Township, the first Bendle School, which served kindergarten to 12th grade, opened. It continued to serve the students of the area until the township's population growth after

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resulted in overcrowding. As a result, several new school buildings were built, including Bendle's first elementary school and, in 1953, a new high school building, located on 2294 East Bristol Road; the 1928 high school became T.N. Lamb Junior High School. After the turn of the 21st century, T.N. Lamb was overcrowded again, and the 1953 Bendle High School was in its sixth decade as a high school. The overcrowding of T.N. Lamb Junior High plus Bendle High School's age led to the third high school, the present Bendle High School, being built in 2008 on its current location on 2283 East Scottwood Avenue in Burton, and the conversion of the 1953 high school into the present Bendle Middle School. T.N. Lamb Junior High School was demolished in 2011. The current Bendle High School cost $15.5 million to build and contains 80,000 square feet of space.

Academics

Bendle High School has been accredited by Cognia, or its predecessor,

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, since 2004. In the 2020 '' U.S. News & World Report'' annual survey of high schools, Bendle ranked 467th in Michigan and 13,345th nationally.

Demographics

The demographic breakdown of the 358 students enrolled for the 2018–19 school year was: *Male - 50.6% *Female - 49.4% *Native American/Alaskan - 0.3% *Black - 12.8% *Hispanic - 7.0% *Native Hawaiian/Pacific islanders - 0.3% *White - 74.0% *Multiracial - 5 6% 96.6% of the students were eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch. For 2018–19, Bendle was a

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school.

Athletics

Bendle's Tigers compete in the

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. School colors are blue and gold. The following

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(MHSAA) sanctioned sports are offered: *Baseball (boys) *Basketball (girls and boys) *Bowling (girls and boys) *Cross country (girls and boys) *Football (boys) *Softball (girls) *Track and field (girls and boys) *Volleyball (girls) *Wrestling (boys)

Notable alumni

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(NFL)

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References

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