Bitburg High School
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| Bitburg High School | |
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| Bitburg Airbase Germany |
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| Coordinates | 49°56′43″N 006°33′54″E / 49.94528°N 6.565°E |
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| Type | DoDDS Secondary |
| Established | 1956 |
| School district | Kaiserslautern district |
| Principal | Patrick Gross |
| Faculty | 32 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 250 |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Athletics conference | Division II |
| Mascot | Barons (Knight) |
| Assistant Principal | Kaawa Fulton |
| Website | www.bitb-hs.eu.dodea.edu |
Bitburg American High School (generally referred to as BHS), originally opened in 1956, is part of the Kaiserslautern School District and has a student population of approximately 250 with a faculty of thirty-two. It is situated in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Although Bitburg High School is located at the Bitburg Air Base housing complex, many of the students that attend this school live at the Spangdahlem Air Base or villages in the surrounding areas. Over the course of the next decade, a new high school will be built at the Spangdahlem Air Base.
Bitburg High School was one of the first schools in DoDDS (Department of Defense Dependent Schools) to successfully implement and maintain a Block Scheduling/Seminar schedule, during the 1994-1995 school year. Currently, they maintain a normal schedule with 8 periods, including a seminar class. The schedule rotates in the block system as Blue and Red days.
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[edit] Accreditation
Bitburg High School is fully accredited by the North Central Association for Colleges and Schools. Every five years the school is visited to assess the success of the school's individual school improvement plan. The Spring of 2011 was the latest visition in the process. The professional and auxiliary staff members at school complete an in-depth report which addresses one affective and one cognitive area that the school has chosen to address in an outcomes based school improvement plan. This self-study is submitted to the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools for their review and evaluation.
Bitburg High School has been recommended for outcomes-based accreditation and has been commended for its efforts to provide its students a quality program of education and its continued effort for excellence. The process of self-evaluation is continuous.
[edit] Technology
The school is maintaing a minimum of 2:1 ratio of students to computers. Further, there are two computer labs and students have access to 8 carels containing laptop computers. Additionally, there is a fully functional intranet system in which students can save files to their own server partition.
Lastly, a wide variety of Distance Learning courses are offered, including Marine Biology, French, AP Macroeconomics, AP Calculus BC and AP Statistics.
[edit] Advanced classes
Bitburg High School offers many Advanced Placement courses through the College Board program.
[edit] English
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The Honors classes are "combined grades" classes where both the Honors History and Literature grades are averaged together and given as one grade.
The AP classes are also weighted grades on a students GPA.
[edit] Athletics
The Athletic program is continuously improving. There is interscholastic competition for boys and girls during these three seasons. All athletes must abide by the Bitburg HS Athletic code. A physical examination each year is required to tryout, practice or play. All students must maintain academic eligibility in order to participate in the athletics program.[1]
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[edit] Winter
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[edit] Spring
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[edit] Extracurricular activities
Bitburg offers a various amount of clubs for students to join. Each club elects at least one position (Senator) and may select up too 6 (Secretary, Vice President, President, etc.)
- Freshman Class
- Sophomore Class
- Junior Class
- Senior Class
- National Honors Society *
- German Honors Society *
- Spanish Honors Society *
- German Club
- Spanish Club
- Yearbook (also offered as class)
- Student Council
- FBLA (Future Business Leader of America)
- Model United Nations
- JROTC Drill Team
- *: Denotes entrance requirement
[edit] Eifel School Systems
The following schools feed into Bitburg High School either directly or indirectly:
- Spangdahlem Elementary School (indir.)
- Bitburg Elementary School (indir.)
- Spangdahlem Middle School (dir.)
- Bitburg Middle School (dir.)
