Gibson Southern High School is a
public high school
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in pa ...
located in
Fort Branch, Indiana
Fort Branch is the largest town and second largest community in Gibson County, Indiana after Princeton and ahead of the county's other city, Oakland City. The population was 2,771 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Evansville, Indiana, Metropo ...
.
Academics
Gibson Southern High School received the
Indiana Four Star School Award for seven consecutive years.
Athletics
In 1974, Gibson Southern was originally a member of the
Pocket Athletic Conference
The Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Indiana with its headquarters at Forest Park. Most of the conference's 13 members are mainly Class 2A and 3A public high schools currently located in Davi ...
(PAC). In 1980, the school left the PAC to form the
Big 8 Conference
The Big Eight Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)-affiliated Division I-A college athletic association that sponsored football. It was formed in January 1907 as the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Associatio ...
with 7 former
Southern Indiana Athletic Conference
The Southern Indiana Athletic Conference (SIAC) is a high school athletic conference based in Evansville, Indiana. Five of the conferences eight schools; Bosse, Central, Harrison, North, and Reitz; comprise the public Evansville Vanderburgh School ...
schools, some of which were also once members of the PAC. In 1994, Gibson Southern left the Big 8 to rejoin the PAC. In 2020 the Pocket Athletic Conference expanded with Boonville, Mount Vernon, Princeton and Washington joining Forest Park, Gibson Southern, Heritage Hills, North Posey, Pike Central, Southridge, South Spencer, Tecumseh, and Tell City to make it a 13-team conference.
The school won state championships in softball in 2003, 2005 and 2015.
In 2021, the football team won their first state championship in school history.
See also
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List of high schools in Indiana
This is a list of high schools in the U.S. state of Indiana.
A
Adams County
Allen County
B
Bartholomew County
Benton County
Blackford County
Boone County
Brown County
C
Carroll County
Cass County
Clark County
Clay County ...
References
External links
Gibson Southern High School WebsiteGibson Southern's Indiana Department of Education Profile
{{High Schools in Southwestern Indiana
Public high schools in Indiana
High schools in Southwestern Indiana
Fort Branch, Indiana
Haubstadt, Indiana
Owensville, Indiana
Educational institutions established in 1974
Evansville metropolitan area
Pocket Athletic Conference
Big Eight Conference (IHSAA)
Schools in Gibson County, Indiana
1974 establishments in Indiana
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