Huntsville High School (Alabama)

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Huntsville High School
Location
Map
2304 Billie Watkins St SW

Huntsville, Alabama
35801

United States
Coordinates34°42′49″N 86°35′01″W / 34.7137°N 86.5835°W / 34.7137; -86.5835
Information
TypePublic
Motto"Altiora Docendo" (Higher things must be taught)
School districtHuntsville City Schools
CEEB code011485
PrincipalKari Flippo
Staff100.63 (FTE)[1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment1,802 (2023-2024)[1]
Student to teacher ratio17.91[1]
Color(s)Cardinal and blue
  
SloganGo Big Red (GBR)
AthleticsAHSAA Class 7A
SportsGirls sports: Basketball, Bowling, Cheerleading, Cross country, Golf, Softball, Swimming, Marching Band, Tennis, Track, Volleyball, Diving, Powderpuff Football, and Soccer Boys sports: Baseball, Basketball, Bowling, Cross country, Football, Golf, Marching Band, Swimming, Tennis, Track, Wrestling, Diving, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, and Soccer
NicknameHHS
Team nameHuntsville Panthers
Websitewww.huntsvillecityschools.org/schools/huntsville-high-school

Huntsville High School is an American public high school in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama in the Huntsville metropolitan area. It is part of the Huntsville City Schools district with approximately 1,850 students currently enrolled in grades 9–12.[2]

The school is located at the intersection of Bob Wallace Avenue (formerly 13th Street West) and Billie Watkins Street.

In 2014, the school constructed its Freshman Academy on-site, intended to facilitate students' transition from middle school to high school and in which the majority of its freshman classes take place. The school offers 15 Advanced Placement courses alongside preparatory courses for industry certification.[2]

The school's current principal as of the 2023 school year is Kari Flippo and its current assistant principals are Mark Fleetwood and Lauren Woltjen.[2]

Athletics

Huntsville High School competes at the 7A classification of the AHSAA and uses the Panther nickname for all team sports. Huntsville High sponsors varsity-level athletics in the following sports:

Men's athletics Women's athletics
Football Powderpuff football
Basketball Basketball
Baseball Softball
Wrestling Cheerleading
Cross country Cross country
Track and field Track and field
Tennis Tennis
Golf Golf
Marching band Marching band
Soccer Soccer
Swimming and diving Swimming and diving
Bowling Bowling
Ice hockey Volleyball
Football home and band uniforms

Huntsville High currently supplies one team to the Huntsville Amateur Hockey Association's high school league.[3] The Huntsville Panthers have won AHSAA state championship events in baseball, boys' cross country, girls' cross country, girls' volleyball, girls' soccer, girls' indoor track and field, girls' outdoor track and field, boys' swimming and diving, girls' swimming and diving, boys' tennis, and girls' tennis, in addition to gymnastics state championships in the 1980s[when?] (discontinued by the AHSAA in 1998), as well as several cheerleading state championships in the late 1990s[when?] before the AHSAA sponsored the sport.[citation needed]

As of November 1, 2012[needs update], the Huntsville High Lady Panther volleyball team had won the AHSAA state title 10 times out of 11 years, losing only one year in the semifinals to Pelham High School. The Huntsville High girls' cross country team placed second in the state meet in 2014[4] and won the 7A state championship in 2016.[5]

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Huntsville High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 22, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Huntsville High School website. Retrieved on December 1, 2021.
  3. ^ "Huntsville Amateur Hockey Association".
  4. ^ "AHSAA CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014" (PDF). www.ashaa.com. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
  5. ^ "AHSAA State XC Championships 2016" (PDF). www.ashaa.com. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
  6. ^ "Huntsville High alumnus Jed Bradley ready to make Huntsville Stars home debut". AL.com. June 7, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
  7. ^ Who's Who on the Pacific Coast. Boston, MA: Larkin, Roosevelt & Larkin. 1947. p. 380 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "Closing Exercises of the High School". The Huntsville Daily Times. Huntsville, AL. May 25, 1912. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Questionnaire: Dee Margo, candidate for el Paso Mayor".
  10. ^ Sparks, Adam. "How Vanderbilt's Spencer Jones, Javier Vaz beat odds as improbable heroes in College World Series". The Tennessean. Retrieved January 11, 2024.


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