Barbers Hill High School

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Barbers Hill High School
Address
Barbers Hill High School
9600 Eagle Drive

Mont Belvieu
,
Texas
77580-1108

United States
Coordinates 29°50′35″N94°51′08″W / 29.8431°N 94.8521°W / 29.8431; -94.8521
Information
School type Public high school
Motto"We Can, We Will, We're Barbers Hill"
Established1929
School district Barbers Hill Independent School District
PrincipalLance Murphy
Teaching staff139.63 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades9–12
Enrollment1,972 (2022–23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio14.12 [1]
Color(s)   Blue & White
Athletics conference UIL Class AAAAA
MascotEagle/Lady Eagle
Rival Dayton High School [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Website hs.bhisd.net

Barbers Hill High School is a school based in Mont Belvieu, Texas, and is classified as a 5A school by the UIL. It is part of the Barbers Hill Independent School District located in western Chambers County. For the 2021-2022 school year, the school was given an "A" by the Texas Education Agency. [8]

Contents

Athletics

The Barbers Hill Eagles compete in the following sports: [9]

State Champions

^Co-Champion with Sonora High School

Music

Barbers Hill High School is the home of the award-winning Soaring Eagle Marching Band. In the 2010 and 2011 marching seasons, the band received straight 1's for a first division rating at the UIL Region Marching Band Competition. The Soaring Eagle Marching Band was one of only 2 bands (the other being the Galena Park High School marching band) to receive this rating at the contest. In 2011 the Soaring Eagle Marching Band went on to the regional marching contest. In 2013, the Soaring Eagle Marching Band and 3 other schools in Area 4A went on to play at state in San Antonio. [14] In the spring, the SEMB divides into 3 concert bands, the Barbers Hill High School Wind Ensemble (the premier performing group in the district), the BHHS Symphonic Band (middle performing group), and the BHHS Concert Band.

State Champions

Drama & Theatre

State Champions

One Act Play [16]

Dress code controversy

In January 2020, a student was suspended and informed that he would be forbidden from attending graduation due to the length of his dreadlocks. However, the student's family and political activists have asserted that the action taken against him was discriminatory. [17] Other students of the high school also spoke out against the policy, describing it as gender discrimination, since girls are allowed to have long hair, while boys are not. [18] A federal judge ruled that the district’s hair policy was discriminatory. [19]

On 31 August, 2023, another student was suspended over his dreadlocks. His family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles. [20] Texas passed the CROWN Act on May 27, 2023, and the law took effect on 1 September, 2023. [21]

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  6. ↑ "Barbers Hill too much for Dayton 42-6". Liberty Vindicator. 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
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  8. ↑ "TEA". Texas Education Agency . Retrieved 26 April 2024.
  9. ↑ The Athletics Department [ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ Lone Star Football Network
  11. ↑ UIL Girls Basketball Archives Archived March 6, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ UIL Boys Track Archives Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ "World Power: Barbers Hill sophomore wins power lifting world championship". 3 December 2014.
  14. ↑ "Texas State Marching Band Contest".
  15. ↑ UIL State Wind Ensemble Contest Champions Archived 2011-11-18 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ UIL One Act Play State Champions Archived June 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ Cox, Chelsey (January 24, 2020). "Texas teen banned by high school from attending graduation after refusing to cut dreadlocks". USA Today. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  18. ↑ Garvin, Keith; Smith, Tierra (January 24, 2020). "More Barbers Hill students angered by school dress code, forced to cut their hair as well". Mont Belvieu: KPRC. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  19. ↑ "Judge: Policy that suspended student over dreadlocks unfair". Associated Press. 19 August 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  20. ↑ "A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his family is suing Texas officials". AP News. 2023-09-23. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
  21. ↑ Grenaway, Johannah (1 September 2023). "Texans can "be themselves unapologetically" as CROWN Act goes into effect". CBS. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
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