Beloit Memorial High School
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1225 Fourth Street Beloit, Wisconsin United States |
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| Coordinates | 42°30′52.39″N 89°2′15.7″W / 42.5145528°N 89.037694°WCoordinates: 42°30′52.39″N 89°2′15.7″W / 42.5145528°N 89.037694°W |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| Established | 1868 |
| Oversight | School District of Beloit |
| Principal | Carole Campbell |
| Faculty | 120 (2015-2016) |
| Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior | 9-12 |
| Color(s) | Purple & White |
| Athletics | WIAA Big Eight Conference |
| Mascot | Purple Knight |
| Rival |
Joseph A. Craig High School, George S. Parker High School |
| Yearbook | The Beloiter |
| Website | Official website |
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Beloit Memorial High School is a public, four-year comprehensive high school in Beloit, Wisconsin.
Beloit Memorial has an enrollment of approximately 1,700 students, with 120 full-time certified staff and an average class size of 28 students.
The school has a charter school complex, The Hendricks Education Center, which is located across the Rock River from Beloit Memorial. Hendricks enrolls over 200 students and has an online learning facility, an auto body shop, and a cafeteria, Also at the Eclipse Center is the Roy Chapman Andrews Academy, a project-based charter school serving grades 6 through 12.
Beloit Memorial supports the state's oldest high school newspaper, the monthly Increscent, founded in 1894. It won first place in General Excellence by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association in 2010 and second place in 2009 and 2011.The Increscent publishes an annual humor issue, called the Uncrescent.
BMHS Theatre performs a fall play and a spring musical and supplements those works with other student-driven projects, including improvisation and student-directed one-act plays. The theater group performed as the showcase production at the Wisconsin CESA conference in 2008 and at the Wisconsin High School Theatre Festival in 2009. They performed at the 2010 and 2013 Festival Fringe in Edinburgh, Scotland, the world's largest performing arts festival, as part of the American High School Theatre Festival. BMHS Theatre is a student-led program, with student officers and a student stage manager.
Each year, the theatre group competes in a statewide competition for the Tommy Awards with its spring musical. In 2011, it received Tommy Awards for its musical production of Hairspray: Outstanding Lead, Outstanding Supporting, Outstanding Ensemble, Community Engagement Award, and Outstanding Stage Manager. In 2012, the theatre group received Tommy Awards for its musical production of Urinetown: Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Lead, and two Outstanding Supporting Roles.
The BMHS Jazz 1 Band has competed in several Midwestern jazz festivals, such as "Music in the Parks" and "Music in the Meadows". It has competed in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Florida, Louisiana, and New York. In 2009, 2012,2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 it was chosen from among 15 other bands in the United States to compete in Essentially Ellington in New York.
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