Belvidere High School (Illinois)

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Belvidere High School
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Belvidere High School (Illinois)
1500 East Avenue

Belvidere
,
Illinois
61008

United States
Coordinates 42°14′38″N88°49′50″W / 42.2438°N 88.8306°W / 42.2438; -88.8306
Information
School type Public Secondary
School district Belvidere Community Unit School District 100
SuperintendentDaniel Woestman 2016 [1] =
PrincipalBilly Lewis
Teaching staff80.29 (FTE) [2]
Grades 9–12
Gender Coed
Enrollment1,213 (2018-19) [2]
Average class size21.4 [3]
Student to teacher ratio15.11 [2]
Campus type Urban
Color(s)  Purple
  Gold [4]
SloganIt's the Year of the BUCS!
Song Notre Dame Victory March
Athletics conference Northern Illinois Conference (NIC-10) [5]
MascotBuccaneer
Team name Bucs [4]
Newspaper The Buccaneer' [6]
YearbookBelvi
Website Official School Website

Belvidere High School is located in at 1500 East Avenue, Belvidere, Illinois in Boone County.

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History

On the afternoon of April 21, 1967, an F4 tornado struck the school, killing 13 students and staff, tossing buses as students were being dismissed. The tornado was part of the 1967 Oak Lawn tornado outbreak. It was the sixth worse loss of life at an American school as a result of tornadoes, and the worst since 1955. [7] [8]

To mark the 40th anniversary of the tragedy, a memorial to the lives lost in the tornado was erected in front of Belvidere High School in 2007. [9]

Athletics

Belvidere competes in the Northern Illinois Conference (NIC-10), and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Teams are stylized as the Bucs (a shortening of Buccaneers).

BHS Sports: Football, Poms, Cheerleading, Basketball, Dance, Baseball, Tennis, Bowling, Track & Field, Soccer, Softball, Golf, Volleyball, Swimming, and Cross Country.

The school won back–to–back state championships in football in the autumns of 1993 and 1994. [10]

Belvidere High School's current biggest rival is Belvidere North High School. Before that school was created, however, Rockford Boylan Central Catholic High School was their biggest sports rival.

The Bucs branding is also carried over to Belvidere South Middle School.

Notable alumni

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