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Lincoln High School
Location
Ypsilanti , Michigan 48197 United States
Information
School type	Public, Secondary
Motto	Who's House? Blue's house.
School district	Lincoln Consolidated School District (Michigan)
Principal	John McGehee
Faculty	~90
Grades	9-12
Number of students	~1,600
Color(s)	Blue and Gray
Mascot	Railsplitters
Website	[1]

Lincoln High School is a public school located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Lincoln High School is a comprehensive high school serving 9-12th grades. It currently has approximately 1,601 students and 90 faculty members. Lincoln High School has won Program Excellence Award for its unbelievable technology & design education department. Lincoln High School is also one of the first participating districts in the Early College Alliance. Early College Alliance is a program which provides 60 free credits incorporated with Eastern Michigan University for free.

History

Lincoln High School branched off of 13 one room school houses, which was the original start to Lincoln Consolidated School District (Michigan). These schools were built between 1844 through 1899, nothing on record determines which school was the old high school. On October 31, 1924 the first real Lincoln High school opened in the building that's now named Brick which went from high school, to a middle school to now a 3-5 grade school.The original high school building went though many expansions, first after 1928 a one story garage is added to the west side, secondly During the 1930s a second floor is added to the garage to have a cafeteria (this is now the Community Center, the Heritage rooms and classrooms) and thirdly a separate bus garage is added prior to 1950. After which a two story addition is added in 1951 (today housing the cafeteria and multi-age program). When naming the school "The Trailblazer School” was a name under consideration, then after years a student vote determined Lincoln was the perfured name.

Positive Behavior Supports

PBS stands for Positive Behavior Support. It is a program designed to teach respect, responsibility, and safety at school. LHS hope to encourage students to continuously make good behavioral choices by implementing this program. PBS provides teachers with information to prevent behavior problems and help make school a safe learning environment. PBS was implanted in the school because administrators wanted to increase good behavior by rewording those who acted in such good behavior.

High School Administrators

Principal John McGehee Asst Principal Wanda Lewis Asst Principal Sharolyn Dixon Asst Principal John Dignan Building Secretary Lynn Laurie

Clubs and Activities

Lincoln offers its students a variety of after school activities, including: •Lincoln Band •Lincoln Choir •Drama •S.A.D.D. •L.Y.T.E. •U.S.O. •Lincoln Log - the newspaper for Railsplitters •Lincoln Computer Club •Lincoln's Literary Magazine, Almost Famous •Lincoln High School Student Council

Demographics

Student population Freshman: 327 Sophomore: 313 Junior: 248 Senior: 309 (Data from 2007.)

Freshman: 411 Sophomore: 473 Junior: 354 Senior: 315 (Data from 2008.)

Year	Native American	Caucasian	Latino or Hispanic	African-American	Asian	Middle Eastern	Multi-ethnic	Other
2007	0%	61%	3%	34%	2%	0%	0%	0%
2008	0%	60%	2%	35%	2%	0%	0%	1%
2009	1%	60%	3%	34%	2%	0%	0%	0%

Notable alumni

Darrell Cannon - class of 1999 - Darrell is a male model for Shades of Essence Modeling and recently inducted into the California Cable Television talk show "Something to Talk About" Hall of Fame. Matt Giraud - class of 2003 - Appeared on American idol Season 8, and made 5th place in the season. Giraud released an album called Perspective in 2003 and another in 2006 called Mind Body and Soul - apart of Lincolns High School Choir.

External links

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