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Belleville High School (Michigan)

Belleville High School
Belleville High School Seal, Belleville, Michigan.svg
Address
501 West Columbia Ave
Belleville, Michigan, Wayne 48111
United States
Coordinates 42°12′12″N 83°29′35″W / 42.203295°N 83.493087°W / 42.203295; -83.493087Coordinates: 42°12′12″N 83°29′35″W / 42.203295°N 83.493087°W / 42.203295; -83.493087
Information
School type Public Secondary
Motto Home of the Tigers
Established 1869
School district Van Buren Public Schools
Principal Stacey Buhro
Faculty 103
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 1,875
Color(s) Orange and Black         
Nickname Tigers
Rivals Romulus High School Eagles
Lincoln High School Railsplitters
Yearbook Tiger Lore
Educational-access station WBHS Channel 19
Website
Belleville High School, Belleville, MI.jpg
The current Belleville High School completed in 2012

Belleville High School is a public high school located in Belleville, Michigan and the only zoned high school in the Van Buren School District.

In 1953, a fire destroyed the third floor of Belleville High School. The blaze began in a basement store room and swept to the second and third floors via a nearby ventilating shaft. No one was injured, but the second and third floors were damaged beyond use for the rest of the school year. The third floor had remained closed, and before the demolition of the building classes continued on the first and second stories.

During the Winter of 2010, the Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education approved the accelerated schedule that the architect of Fanning Howey and Granger Construction presented. The new Belleville High School was built just east of the location where the old Belleville High School stood. The new school was completed in the Summer of 2012 and school was in session for the first time (at the new school) on September 4, 2012. The class of 2013 will be the first to graduate from the new school.

As of August 2012, the old Belleville High School was demolished, excluding the music wing, auditorium, and cafeteria.

In 2000 Comcast, set the school up with an educational access station which would come to be called WBHS Channel 19. The station is almost entirely run by students taking the year-long "Channel 19" course with only the aid of one instructor and the occasional alumni volunteer. The station broadcasts the daily produced morning announcements, student projects, Semi-annual live telethons and other events from around the area which are either taped by the high school's T.E.C. Club or submitted by parents & staff. The station itself is shown on channel 19 as well as HD channel 902 in Comcast’s Van Buren Township Corp, 9502.

Their team rivals are the Lincoln High School Railsplitters and the Romulus High School Eagles.


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