Laurel High School in

Laurel, Montana Laurel is a city in Yellowstone County, Montana, United States. It is the third largest community in the Billings Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is located in the Yellowstone Valley, as an east–west terminal division point of the Burlingto ...

opened in 1908, with W.A. Longley serving as the first principal. The original high school was located on First Avenue between Ninth Street and Seventh Street. It was known as "The Old North School". The school, in its present location on Eighth Street, was constructed in 1962 and the Old North School was demolished in 1969. The demolition inspired Laurel's graduating class to lead one of the largest public rallies in the history of Montana and the Northwest region of the United States.

Extracurricular activities

Laurel High School offers activities such as boys & girls basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, girls & boys soccer, girls & boys golf, speech, drama, debate, softball, track & field, volleyball, and wrestling. The following clubs are also available at Laurel: Academic Challenge, Art Club, Business Professionals of America, Chess Club, Drama Club, Future Farmers of America, Locomotive Express Coffee, National Honors Society, Outdoors Club, Poetry Club, STAND, Spanish Club, and Student Council.

Montana High School Association State Championships (45)

Information is from the Montana High School Association. * Boys

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

– 1969, 1972, 2010, 2015 * Boys

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

– 1999, 2002, 2020 * Boys

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

– 1974, 1976, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 * Boys

Track & 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 events ...

1978, 1979, 1980, 1991, 2019 * Boys

Wrestling Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat ...

– 1967, 1985, 1998, 2011 * Girls

– 2006, 2013 * Girls Cross Country – 1993 * Girls

– 2006, 2018, 2019. 2020 , 2021 * Girls

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

– 1971, 2006 * Girls

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 Summ ...

– 2012 * Girls

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

– 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 In Montana, there are four classes of schools, based on the size of the student body. From smallest to largest, they are Class C, B, A, and AA. Laurel competes in the A class. The class A is divided into four regional divisions: # North Western A: Browning, Columbia Falls, Libby, Polson, Ronan, and Whitefish # South Western A: Dillon, Butte Central, Corvallis, Frenchtown, Hamilton, and Stevensville # South Eastern A: Billings Central, Laurel, Hardin, Livingston, East Helena, and Lockwood # North Eastern A: Miles City, Glendive, Sidney, Lewistown, and Havre

Notes and references

{{authority control Public high schools in Montana Schools in Yellowstone County, Montana Schools accredited by the Northwest Accreditation Commission 1908 establishments in Montana Educational institutions established in 1908