Bourbon County High School is a public high school in

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. It is in the

Bourbon County Schools Bourbon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,252. Its county seat is Paris. Bourbon County is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is one of Ken ...

system.

About

Bourbon County High School offers classes for grades 9 thorough 12, and had 816 students enrolled in the 2021 to 2022 school year. This is a

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school. In the 2020 to 2021 school year, 52.7% of the students are economically disadvantaged. The school has 15 departments: Academics, Adult Ed, Attendance/ Enrollment, Community Ed, ELL Resources, Family Resource, Finance, Food Service, Human Resources, Maintenance, Migrant Education, Special Education, Talented/Gifted, Technology, and Transportation. The student newspaper is called the ''Le Petit Colonel''. In 2022, the Bourbon County High School Marching Band performed at the

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in New York City.

History

Pre-history and Bourbon County High School at Millersburg

A precursor to the current Bourbon County High School was the Bourbon County High School at Millersburg, founded in 1920 and located in Millersburg. The Bourbon County High School at Millersburg operated from approximately 1911 until 1948, and was located in a building from 1858 originally designed for use by

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(until they moved in 1890). However the school's graduates represented only a fraction of the population of Bourbon County due to its location in the northeastern portion of the county. Little Rock, Center Hill, Clintonville, and North Middletown also maintained high schools within the Bourbon County School System. In an effort to create a more centralized environment, the upper grades of Millersburg, Little Rock, Clintonville, and Center Hill schools were merged to create the Bourbon County Vocational High School. North Middletown, however, retained its high school for several more years.

Bourbon County Vocational High School

The Bourbon County Vocational High School opened in the fall of 1948, on the site of the present middle school facility. The central high school was renamed Bourbon County High School in 1956, and completed consolidation with North Middletown High School in 1964 to become the sole high school in the county school district. Several classrooms, a new library, and a cafeteria were added and by 1968 a junior high school was also built on the campus. In 1981, the high school and junior high switched buildings to locate BCHS at its present site.

Notable alumni

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(1964), actor and martial artist * Rick Massie (1978),

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wide receiver *

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(1985), former chair of the

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* Matthew Koch (1996), member of the

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* Dalton Tucker (2018),

offensive guard

References

External links

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Bourbon County Schools website
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