Breathitt County High School
| Breathitt High School | |
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| Location | |
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2307 Bobcat Lane Jackson, Kentucky 41339 United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Established |
1927 in Quicksand, Kentucky, Moved in 1938 to Jackson, Kentucky |
| School district | Breathitt County Schools (State Management) |
| Principal | Derek McKnight |
| Faculty | 35.0 (on FTE basis) |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Enrollment | 535 (2015-2016) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 16.0 |
| Color(s) | Royal Blue and White |
| Sports | football, volleyball, girls' soccer, boys' basketball, girls' basketball, boys' cross country, girls' cross country, boys' track and field, girls' track and field, boys' golf, girls' golf, cheerleading, baseball, and fast pitch softball. |
| Mascot | Bobcat |
| Team name | Bobcats/Ladycats(aka Lady Bobcats) |
| Feeder schools | Sebastian Middle School |
| Website | http://www.breathitt.kyschools.us/1/Home |
1927 in Quicksand, Kentucky, Moved in 1938 to Jackson, Kentucky
Breathitt County High School (aka Breathitt High School) is a public high school located in the city of Jackson, Kentucky nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The 2009-2010 enrollment is around 520 students. The school colors are royal blue and white. The current principal is Derek McKnight, and the current assistant principal is Michael Bowling.
With about 35 certified staff, Breathitt County High offers a very wide range of courses leading to two separate diploma tracks. Students can receive a College Preparation Diploma or Technical Preparation Diploma. Both meet the stringent standards set forth by the Kentucky Department of Education.
The high school was established in 1927 in Quicksand, Kentucky, just south of the county seat of Jackson. Kentucky. It came about when, in the office of the superintendent of Breathitt County and the Jackson City School board of education disagreed on ways of education and how it should be run. It was during that time that the county school children went to the city school (which is an independent school) since it was the only public high school in the county. Soon, the idea of building a county high school was born.
In 1927, it was decided that the high school would be located in the growing logging town of Quicksand which was just 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Jackson. The county would use the Quicksand Common Grade School building that was donated to the county school system, in 1917, by Mr. E. O. Robinson, and F. W. Mowbray, the heads of the Mowbray and Robinson Company that was a major logging company that was the major employer for the boom town. It would be known as Breathitt County High School, but many locals would sometimes call it Quicksand High School (due to its location, since not many high schools back then were known by the county name) or Breathitt High School (due to many reasons, but mainly because many high schools in the area back then only had three initials and not many schools existed as a unified county school with 'county' in its name). It was used so often and was so common that when the second building was constructed, they carved over top of the entrance "Breathitt High School" instead of "Breathitt County High School". Hence, why the name "Breathitt High School" still sticks to many locals today.
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