Bellevue East High School

Bellevue East High School
Location
1401 High School Drive Bellevue , Nebraska 68005
Information
School type	High school
Founded	1962
School district	Bellevue P.S.
Superintendent	Jeff Rippe
Principal	Jeffery Wagner
Staff	98.20 (FTE) [1]
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1,482 (2018–19) [1]
Student to teacher ratio	15.09 [1]
Language	English
Area	Bellevue, Nebraska
Color(s)	Purple, silver and white
Mascot	Chieftains
Team name	Chieftains
Website	Bellevue East HS

Bellevue East High School is a four-year public secondary school in Bellevue, a suburb south of Omaha, Nebraska. The current facility opened in 1962 as Bellevue High School and was renamed Bellevue East in 1977, following the opening of Bellevue West. It is part of the Bellevue Public School System, with approximately 1,450 students in grades 9 through 12.

Athletics

State championships [2]
Season	Sport	Number of championships	Year
Fall	Football	0
	Cross country, boys	0
	Cross country, girls	0
	Volleyball	0
	Softball	0
	Golf, girls	0
	Tennis, boys	0
	Unified bowling	0
Winter	Basketball, boys	0
	Basketball, girls	3	2002, 2006, 2011
	Swimming & Diving, boys	0
	Swimming & Diving, girls	0
	Wrestling, boys	3	1961, 1964, 1972
	Wrestling, girls	0
	Bowling, boys	0
	Bowling, girls	0
Spring	Baseball	0
	Soccer, boys	0
	Soccer, girls	0
	Track and field, boys	1	1991
	Track and field, girls	3	1991, 1992, 1993
	Golf, boys	0
	Tennis, girls	0
Total		10

Bellevue East's marching band won the Class A championship in the 2021 NSBA state marching contest.

Performing arts

BEHS With the Directors David Groth and Carly Fox has one competitive show choir. including the mixed-section group "Take II" . ^[3]

Currently under the direction of Jeremy Krug and Kaitlyn Keck, BEHS has seven bands along with many smaller ensembles. Those being their Marching Band, Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Winter Winds, Jazz 1, Jazz 2, and Campus Band. Marching Band runs from late May all the way until around the start of November. From there, it splits off into Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band for the concert season that runs through the rest of the year. Campus Band is a concert band that goes throughout the entire school year, consisting entirely on students that don't do Marching Band. Winter Winds is a group of students that participate in an indoor marching season that takes place from around the middle of November to April. Jazz 1 and Jazz 2 run throughout the school year, and can consist of students from Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and Campus Band.

Bellevue East's Marching Band and Winter Winds shows have been written most recently by Michael J. Miller, famously known as the brass writer for the DCI group, Colts.

Notable alumni

• Jerry DePoyster, Class of 1964: football player ^[4]
• Jim Webb, Class of 1965: United States Senator from Virginia, screenwriter, and author ^[5]
• Robert Hays, Class of 1965: actor ^[6]
• Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Class of 1968: businesswoman and former U.S. Ambassador to Finland ^[7]
• Rik Bonness, Class of 1972: professional football player ^[8]
• Barclay Knapp, Class of 1975: Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, CEO & Co-Founder of M2M Spectrum Networks ^{[9] [10]}
• Buddy Carlyle, Class of 1996: Major League Baseball player ^[11]
• Tyler Cloyd, Class of 2005: Major League Baseball player ^[12]
• Yvonne Turner, Class of 2006: WNBA Basketball player ^[13]
• Mikey Gow, Class of 2026 (transferred): Ambidextrous high school quarterback ^[14]

References

1. "BELLEVUE EAST SR HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
2. "NEBRASKA SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION". Nebraska School Activities Association. Retrieved September 4, 2022.
3. "SCC: Viewing School - Bellevue East High School". Show Choir Community. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
4. Taylor, Eric (November 28, 2008). "Catching up with Jerry DePoyster". Wahoo Newspaper. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
5. Tsyver, Robynn. "At UNO, former Virginia Sen. Webb sounds like a presidential candidate". Omaha World-Herald. 2015-05-07. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
6. "'Airplane!' star moved to Nebraska – 'the armpit of world' – during high school, graduated from Bellevue High".
7. "Bonnie McElveen-Hunter".
8. Kaufman, Kirby (May 23, 2013). "Bellevue High grad Rik Bonness guest at BPS Foundation breakfast". Omaha World-Herald . Retrieved June 2, 2014.
9. "Bellevue born entrepreneur speaks to business classes".
10. BPS Alumni Excellence Volume 3. YouTube . Archived from the original on December 11, 2021.
11. "Buddy Carlyle Statistics and History". Baseball Reference . Retrieved June 2, 2014.
12. "Bellevue's Tyler Cloyd Loses MLB Debut". WOWT. Associated Press. September 3, 2012. Archived from the original on June 2, 2014. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
13. "Former Chieftain Turner takes long journey to reach WNBA".
14. Hertel, Alyssa (June 15, 2022). "Mikey Gow, an ambidextrous quarterback out of Nebraska, visits Iowa State's football camp". Des Moines Register. Archived from the original on March 3, 2023. Retrieved October 9, 2022.

External links

• Bellevue East H.S.

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