Dearborn High School
| Dearborn High School | |
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| Address | |
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19501 Outer Drive Dearborn, Michigan USA |
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| Coordinates | 42°18′30″N 83°15′44″W / 42.3083°N 83.2622°WCoordinates: 42°18′30″N 83°15′44″W / 42.3083°N 83.2622°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Motto | Always in the Lead |
| Established | 1893 |
| School district | Dearborn Public Schools |
| Principal | Adam Martin |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 2,000 |
| Color(s) |
Orange Black |
| Mascot | Pioneers |
| Rival | Edsel Ford, Fordson |
| Yearbook | The Pioneer |
| Affiliation | Western Wayne Athletic Conference |
| Website | dhs |
 The sign outside Dearborn High. |
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Dearborn High School is a public high school located in Dearborn, Michigan. It was founded in 1893 in Dearborn near Greater Detroit. Dearborn High is one of the three high schools of the Dearborn City School District and is located at 19501 Outer Drive. There are over 2000 students currently attending Dearborn High.
Its attendance boundary includes sections of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights.
The original 1893 high school building stood at the northeast corner of Mason street and Garrison avenue. An auditorium and gymnasium unit was added to the east of this structure in 1920. The 1893 building was razed in 1925 and a three-story 20-classroom structure erected in its place. An addition of 10 classrooms was added as a north wing in 1950. Dearborn High School moved to its current location on Outer Drive in 1956. The Mason Street building was remodeled as the Ray H. Adams Junior High School, named for the superintendent of schools when the 1925 building was erected. The junior high school closed in 1985 and the building was again remodeled to become part of a modern high-scale office complex.
Dearborn High School is currently a member of the Western Wayne Athletic Conference. In school history, the Pioneers and Lady Pioneers have won a combined 11 State Championships in 5 different sports with six of them coming in Boys Swimming. In addition, they have won numerous conference, district, and state regional titles in every sport. The school colors are Orange and Black and the Pioneer mascot is dressed as a mid-19th century frontiersman, wearing a coonskin hat with a brown leather jacket, pants, and boots with leather fringe. At one point, the mascot carried a 19th-century hunting rifle but that was ended by the Administration in the late 1990s. Their previous football field was nicknamed "The Boneyard".
The Pioneers' biggest rivals are the Tractors from Dearborn Fordson High School and the Thunderbirds of Dearborn Edsel Ford High School. According to T.C. Cameron, author of Metro Detroit's High School Football Rivalries, the rivalry with Ford High "has always been spirited" and that Ford's teams "never pass on a chance" to challenge Dearborn High in games. In regards to the one with Fordson, he stated the games have been "scrubbed for years at a time" and that the rivalry was "love-to-hate". The rivalry was affected by the 2006 job change of Jeff Stergalas, previously the head coach of his alma mater, Fordson, into being an assistant coach at Dearborn High School. In 2015 both schools held food drives to coincide with the Dearborn-Ford football game.
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