Bradley High School (BHS) is a comprehensive public junior/senior high school located in Bradley, Arkansas, United States. For the 2017-2018 school year, BHS serves more than 24 students in grades 7 through 12 and is supported by more than 15 educators on a

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basis. Bradley High is the smaller of two public high schools in Lafayette County and draws students from Bradley. It is one of three high schools of the

Emerson-Taylor-Bradley School District Emerson–Taylor-Bradley School District (ETBSD) is a public school district headquartered in Taylor, Arkansas, United States. The school district supports more than 950 students in prekindergarten through grade 12 in the 2015-2016 school year ...

History

Initially it was a part of the

Bradley School District Bradley School District 20 was a school district based in Bradley, Arkansas, United States. The school district encompassed of land in Lafayette County and supported all of Bradley. The final superintendent was Gammye Moore. History By 2013 th ...

. On July 1, 2013 it consolidated with the Emerson-Taylor School District to form the Emerson-Taylor-Bradley School District.

Academics

The high school is fully accredited by the

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(ADE). The assumed course of study for students is to complete the ADE Smart Core curriculum that requires at least 22 units prior to graduation. Students complete regular (core and career focus) courses and exams and may select

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(AP) coursework and exams that provide an opportunity for college credit prior to high school graduation. The

Adequate Yearly Progress Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing ac ...

measures for Bradley High School using the

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are as follows: * 2008–09: Achieving * 2009–10: First Year Not To Meet Standards (Alert) * 2010–11: Year One of Whole School Improvement

Extracurricular activities

The Bradley High School mascot and athletic emblem is the ''

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'' with purple and gold serving as the school colors. The Future Farmers of America (FFA) Nursery/Landscape Team has 2 state championships, the Forestry Team has 2, and the Floriculture team has 2, their last coming in 2020.

Athletics

For 2018–Present, the Bradley Bears participate in the 1A Classification—the state's smallest classification—within the 1A 8 Conference as administered by the

Arkansas Activities Association The Arkansas Activities Association (AAA) is the primary sanctioning body for high school sports in state of Arkansas. AAA is a member association of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFSHSA). Every public secondary sch ...

. The Bears compete in boys and girls basketball, baseball and softball. The Senior Girls basketball team has six state championships and the Senior Boys basketball team has one. The baseball team also has one state championship. Even though the boys and girls track and field teams were discontinued, the boys have five state championships.

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