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Heritage High School is a public high school located in Lynchburg, Virginia. The school is a part of Lynchburg City School District. Its current principal Robert Miller resigned in June 2007 and Mark Meier and is the new principal . Heritage has enrollment of 1159 as of 2006. Its mascot is the Pioneer and its colors are blue and orange.

History In January, 1975, a steering committee, representative of educators, students, parents, and the community at large, was appointed to begin planning a new high school to accommodate approximately 2,000 students. This committee and twenty-three subcommittees worked under the able direction of Dr. Ernest Martin, Special Assistant to the Superintendent, to draw up the initial specifications for the new school. From this planning merged the architects' design of an ultra-modern structure, beautiful in appearance and functional in use.

The new school had no real identity until the spring of 1976, when a special School Board committee, chaired by Mr. James K. Candler, made the following announcement: "We propose Heritage High School as a fitting name for the city's newest secondary building. The name shall serve to remind this generation and generations to come that the first responsibility in public education is to see that our democratic way of life is preserved through an informed electorate. This name shall call to mind both the pride in achievements in the past and shall hold forth a challenge for greater progress in the future. It shall provide a continuing reminder to Lynchburg educators and citizens of the obligation which is theirs - to mold the future through the education of the youth - to carry on the heritage of free education first established in the city of Lynchburg in 1871 and in the Colony of Virginia in 1634".


Facts

  • Heritage High School was built to produce solar energy hence its unique architecture
  • Heritage High School has five floors
    • 1st Floor: Cafeteria, Auditorium, and Band Hall
    • 2nd Floor: Ralph D. Spencer Fieldhouse, Coach's Offices, Art Class Room, Nurse's Office, Driver's Ed Class
    • 3rd Floor: Math Hall, Library, Weight Room, Marine Corps JROTC Office
    • 4th Floor (Main Hall): English Hall, Foreign Language Hall, History Hall, Career Tech Hall (Auto Body, Computer Science/Engineering, Cosmetology, Marketing-FCCLA, Printing Shop)
    • 5th Floor: Science Hall (Chemistry, Physics, and Biology Labs), Guidence Office, Main Office
  • Due to Heritage being built upon marsh land, HHS would sink an inch a year into the ground. This has stopped in the early 1990's
  • Heritage is one of three high schools in Virginia to have an indoor track on their campus (Ralph D Spencer Memorial Fieldhouse)

Awards

  • 2005 Newsweek's Top 1,200 High Schools
  • 2006 Newsweek's Top 1,200 High Schools
  • 2007 Newsweek's Top 1,200 High Schools


Central Virginia Governor's School

  • Heritage High School is home to the Central Virginia Governor's School for Science & Technology and gifted high school students from Campbell, Nelson, Amherst, Bedford, and Appomattox counties, as well as Lynchburg City attend classes at seperate location within the high school.

Athletics

Heritage (Lynchburg) has won a number of VHSL State Championships at the AAA and AA level


State Championships

2002

  • Virginia State AA Division 4 Football Champions
    • Lafayette High School (Williamsburg)- 7 vs Heritage High School - 34
  • Virginia State AA Indoor Track Champions (Boys)

2003

  • Virginia State AA Indoor Track Champions (Boys)
  • Virginia State AA Indoor Track Runner-Up (Girls)
  • Virginia State AA Outdoor Track Champions (Girls)

2004

  • Virginia State Basketball Final Four Tournament (Boys)

2006

  • Virginia State AA Indoor Track Champions (Boys)


Regionals

2002

  • Region III Division 4 Football Champions

2003

  • Region III Outdoor Track Champions (Girls)
  • Region III Outdoor Track Champions (Boys)
  • Region III Indoor Track Champions (Girls)
  • Region III Indoor Track Champions (Boys)

2004

  • Region III Indoor Track Champions (Girls)

2005

  • Region III Indoor Track Champions (Boys)

2006

  • Region III Indoor Track Champions (Boys)

Theatre

Heritage High School is also home to Pioneer Theatre. A student run program with Theatre Director Larry Hart and Associate Director Michelle Velastegui as of Fall 2006. All sets are built by Applied Technical Theater I & II. The theatre produces around six shows a year. The six plays usually consist Acting II Competition Piece, Theater in the round, Mainstage Straight Play, Mainstage Musical, Acting II Musical / "Straight Play" Dinner Theatre, & Acting II One Acts. While this is the current compilation it does change slightly from year to year.

Current Season

  • Urinetown the Musical
  • Murder for one
  • House of Blue Leaves
  • Disney's Beauty & The Beast
  • Snoopy, the musical.
  • Acting II presents Original One-Acts

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Heritage High School |

  • 3020 Wards Ferry Road |
  • Lynchburg, Virginia 24502
  • Phone (434) 582-1147
  • Fax (434) 582-1137
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