Bloomington High School (BHS) is a public
secondary school in
Bloomington, Illinois, and is part of
Bloomington School District 87
Bloomington School District 87, often shortened to District 87, is a school district in Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington is a city and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States. It is adjacent to the town of Normal, and is ...
.
Curriculum
Courses include subjects of standard core high school curricula (
Math,
English
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* English people
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Peoples, culture, and language
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,
Science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
,
Physical Education
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,
Foreign Language
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, etc.) as well as courses in
fine arts,
vocational
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skills and
special education
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.
Athletics
Athletics include a full range of individual and team sports, including football, basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, volleyball, tennis, swimming, diving, wrestling, track and field, cross country, golf, cheerleading, gaming club, and pom pons. A wide variety of school clubs also meet on various topics.
The school's colors are purple and gold. The school dropped its mascot, a Native American chief head, in 2001 because it was deemed offensive. The school's students at that time voted not to replace the mascot but still called the Purple Raiders. Bloomington High School participates in the
Big 12 Conference (Illinois).
Awards
Bloomington High School was named by ''
U.S. News & World Report'' as a Bronze Medal Winner in 2009 and a Silver Medal Winner in 2012, reflecting its status as one of the nation's best high schools.
Notable alumni
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Gordon William Lillie
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a.k.a. Pawnee Bill, worked for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, then later operated his own wild west show
*
Sidney Smith (1890s) Syndicated cartoonist
*
A.C. Littleton (1908?) – Professor and
accounting historian University of Illinois
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(now
Gies College of Business
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),
editor-in-chief
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The Accounting Review
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,
Accounting Hall of Fame
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inductee
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Curt Raydon (1952?) — Former
MLB
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player (
Pittsburgh Pirates)
*
Jim Cox (1968) — Former
MLB
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player (
Montreal Expos
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)
*
Edward B. Rust Jr. (1968) — CEO,
State Farm
*
Bob Bender (1975) —
basketball coach
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and player: Currently working as an assistant with the NBA's
Atlanta Hawks
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.
*
Tim Bradstreet
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Early life
Tim Bradstreet was born February 16, 1967, in Ch ...
(1985) — Comic book artist and illustrator
*
Brandon Hughes (2004) —
Philadelphia Eagles
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football player
*
Clinton Davisson
Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment. Davisson shared the Nobel Priz ...
, recipient of the 1937
Nobel Prize in Physics
)
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.
*
Greg Engel
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, NFL player
References
External links
School website
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Public high schools in Illinois
Schools in Bloomington–Normal