Hampton High School is a public secondary school located in

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. A part of the

Anglophone South School District The Anglophone South School District (ASD-S) is a Canadian school district in New Brunswick. Anglophone South is an Anglophone district operating 70 public schools (gr. K-12) in Saint John, Charlotte, Kings, and part of Queens Counties. Curren ...

, the school serves students from grades 9- 12. The school is also home to the Hampton Huskies.

History

Early development

In August 1992, Hampton High School’s official school colours were chosen as black, silver and white, much to the dismay of the alumni of the former Hampton Consolidated School, whose school colours were green and white.

Opening of the School

Hampton High School opened its doors on September 8, 1992, to around 640 students. The school was established to alleviate the overcrowding at

Kennebecasis Valley High School Kennebecasis Valley High School (KVHS) is a public secondary school located in Quispamsis, New Brunswick, Canada. Established in 1975, it is part of the Anglophone South School District, serving students from grades 9- 12. The current principal ...

, which at the time enrolled over 1,900 students. Hampton High initially housed grades 10–12. In August 1996, grade 9 was moved from Hampton Junior High School. In August 1997, grade 9 students from Macdonald Consolidated School moved in and four additional classrooms were added.

School Campus

Hampton High School's campus includes multiple courses taught by approximately 30 teachers in 2022-23. The exterior of the school has a baseball/softball field, soccer field with a small, 400-metre track, tennis courts, a skateboard park, an outdoor basketball court, and a trail that leads to the town's Spooner Island.

Athletics

NBIAA Teams

The school's team name is the Hampton Huskies, and their mascot is Frostbite. Hampton High School has many teams that participate in the

NBIAA The New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletic Association, or NBIAA, (french: l'Association sportive interscolaire du Nouveau-Brunswick, ASINB) is the governing body for high school sports in New Brunswick, Canada. As with all of Canada's provincial ...

. In the 2022-2023 year, the school has many teams in many sports in many

divisions. The sports they have to offer are

hockey Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...

(girls division only),

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

, football, soccer,

cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open cou ...

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

rugby Rugby may refer to: Sport * Rugby football in many forms: ** Rugby league: 13 players per side *** Masters Rugby League *** Mod league *** Rugby league nines *** Rugby league sevens *** Touch (sport) *** Wheelchair rugby league ** Rugby union: 1 ...

, and

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

. The school has won many

titles in the past, and are still having great success. The school is in the Southern Conference in the AA division in the

Mascot

Hampton High's mascot is Frostbite. The mascot was formally called the Hampton Husky, however.

Enrollment by Grade

Hampton High School Enrollment

Other Hampton Schools Enrollment

Primary Schools:

Drama Productions

Most high schools' drama productions are some of a school's biggest events, and that majority includes Hampton High. These drama teams made of students work really hard all for a long time, and in parts of the year, they practice almost every day. It isn't just the on-stage performers that do a lot of work, but also these students that work behind the scenes. These drama productions showcase a lot of artistic ability from the students, and on show time, they get great feedback from their hard work and skills.

2023 Plays

Puffs, Comical Play- This play takes place in the world of Harry Potter, and showcases the life of Puffs at Hogwarts. However Harry Potter makes a brief appearance in the play, this play focuses on the Puffs and other characters in the world of the miscellaneous world of the Harry Potter series. This play took place in the fall of 2022 at the Hampton High School theatre.

Shrek The Musical ''Shrek The Musical'' is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on the 2001 DreamWorks Animation film ''Shrek'', along with elements of its sequels: '' Shrek 2'', ''Shrek Forever After'' ...

, Musical Play- The play is about the green ogre named Shrek, not unlike the original movies of

Shrek ''Shrek'' is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 1990 book of the same name by William Steig. It is the first installment in the ''Shrek'' franchise. The film was directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jen ...

. This unique reenactment of Shrek features creative lyric choices, and has a lot of unique scenes I'm sure everyone in the theatre enjoyed seeing. This play took place in the spring of 2023 at the Hampton High School theatre.

References

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