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Champlain Valley Union High School
Champlain Valley Union's LED illuminated sign on CVU Road

Champlain Valley Union High School is a high school located in the town of Hinesburg, Vermont. The school serves the communities of Charlotte, Hinesburg, Shelburne, Williston, and St. George. The enrollment for the 2007-2008 school year was 1,388 students with 113 faculty. The school is locally known as CVU.

CVU was established in 1964 to serve the Chittenden towns outside of Burlington, Vermont.[citation needed]

CVU is the second largest high school in Vermont behind Essex High School.[citation needed]

Infrastructure

Within the property of CVU, there is a baseball field, a softball field, a field hockey field, a football field, a track, and three soccer fields. During the spring, the field hockey and soccer fields are used for Lacrosse.

Classes

CVU offers classes in all the basic subjects, including math, social studies, English, and sciences. Sciences taught include chemistry, biology, earth sciences, botany, microbiology, and biogenetics.

There are three levels of band, multiple chorus classes, woodworking and metalworking, CAD design, French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek.

Incoming freshmen are divided into four different houses/cores, named after several prominent Vermonters: Nichols,[1] Snelling, Fairbanks[2] and Chittenden.[3] Each student remains a part of their assigned house until graduation. All freshmen must take mandatory classes in English, social studies, mathematics, science, physical education, and health.

The daily schedule at CVU is broken up into block scheduling. The calendar is divided into red and white days. Many students have 'free blocks' in which they are able to relax, go to the library, or go to a commons area to socialize with friends. A typical school day at CVU starts at 8:15 and ends at 3:00. Classes are an hour and a half long each.

Student body

There is a Student Council. It helps with fund-raising, organizes their class's prom and trike for the annual Winter Carnival Trike Race.

It helps organize the Graduation Challenge, Curriculum Clearinghouse, Advisory PLP, Climate, Pathways and Schoolboard.

Clubs at CVU range from serious (Scholar's Bowl) to fun (Leisure Sports and Barbecue).

The students are involved in community service including Key Club, and Presidential Honors Society members working to better the community.

In 2006 a student organized the schools first Women's Panel which featured Vermont Politicians including a state senator, and a state officer.[citation needed]

The second panel was held in 2007 and featured Vermont Leading Business Women. The panel was featured in the state and local newspapers and was recognized as an important step for the school in recognizing the importance of Women's History Month.[citation needed]

Athletics

The school mascot is the Redhawk, having recently changed its name from Crusaders due to concerns regarding the historically insensitive and controversial nature of the old term. The school offers the following sports to students:

Fall Sports

  • The football program is a 2004 addition to CVU's fall athletics program.
  • CVU competes in Division 1 brackets for all sports, except football (Division 2). The men's soccer, women's soccer, and cross country teams have won multiple state championships. The Men's soccer team is one of Vermont's most decorated sports team. The team has been recognized as one of the best team's in the New England area and has even been seen in some national rankings.[citation needed] The team/school has since been given the name, "soccer central."[citation needed]However, they had a sub-par year in the 2008-2009 school year, losing many times, including three times to rival South Burlington High School (including in the quarter finals). Many refer to them as the "biggest disappointment" and "worst excuse for a team ever."[citation needed] Now, CVU is known as one of the most hated and least respected teams in the country. The school has considered removing them and making them a club sport, as well as their football team, which consists of many cocky players who think they're the shit for being able to play on a Division 3 team.

Winter Sports

Spring Sports

Footnotes

  1. ^ Named after Clarissa Nichols
  2. ^ There were two governors Fairbanks. The other was Erastus Fairbanks
  3. ^ There were two Governors Chittenden
  4. ^ School archives

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