Anchor Bay High School
| Anchor Bay High School | |
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| Address | |
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6319 County Line Road Fair Haven, Michigan 48023 United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°42′42″N 82°43′38″W / 42.7118°N 82.7271°WCoordinates: 42°42′42″N 82°43′38″W / 42.7118°N 82.7271°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public High School |
| School district | Anchor Bay School District |
| Principal | Jack Stanton |
| Faculty | 138 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 1,800+ |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Red & White |
| Mascot | Tars |
| Rival | L'Ance Creuse North High School |
| Accreditation | North Central Association |
| Yearbook | The Anchor |
| Website | www |
Anchor Bay High School is a four-year secondary school located in Fair Haven, Michigan (St. Clair County), and it is part of the Anchor Bay School District. Anchor Bay graduates approximately 500 students each year, and there are over 1,800 enrolled. As of 2015, the school principal is Jack Stanton.
The school was once located in Chesterfield, Michigan on Sugarbush Road (Now Anchor Bay Middle School - South), but has since moved to Fair Haven. The school was moved after school district voters passed a $116-million bond in 1999 to build a new high school and make other upgrades to area schools. Construction began on the new school in April 2001. The relocated school, now on County Line Road, opened August 26, 2003. When opened it was the largest high school in Michigan, now second behind Saline High School located in Saline, Michigan. and the fourth largest in the nation at over 496,000 sq ft (46,100 m2). Recent additions to the school have made it even larger.
Anchor Bay's music program, led by P. David Visnaw II, includes a Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, and Marching Band. In 2006, Anchor Bay was listed in "Best 100 Communities for Music Education" Roster.
The foundation for the success of Anchor Bay's Instrumental Music program perhaps came in the form of a "re-boot" that occurred in the fall of 1986. After a number of years of comparative inactivity in the music program, Anchor Bay hired a new music director named Randy Casteel. Prior to this, Anchor Bay had no elementary music education, no junior high music program, and the high school band had less than 20 members. Casteel started an elementary and junior high program. He also recruited six junior high students with prior musical experience for the high school band.
In its first six years, the program grew significantly. The marching band, once a group of less than twenty that marched in T-shirts and jeans, grew to over 150 members and had traveled internationally to perform and compete. A high school symphonic band, concert band, jazz band, and wind ensemble were formed. In the first six years of this re-booted program, all of Anchor Bay's high school bands scored straight 1's in every competition they entered.
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