William C. Hinkley High School | |
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![]() Hinkley High school in 2008 | |
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1250 Chambers Road , Colorado 80011 United States | |
Coordinates | 39°44′05″N104°48′31″W / 39.73467°N 104.80866°W |
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Motto | Bring the Thunder |
Established | 1963 |
School district | Aurora Public Schools |
CEEB code | 060073 |
Principal | Jennifer Abeyta-Cifuentes |
Staff | 78.00 (FTE) [1] |
Grades | 9-12 |
Enrollment | 1,584 (2023–2024) [1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 20.31 [1] |
Color(s) | Cadet blue and silver |
Athletics | 5A |
Athletics conference | Skyline League |
Mascot | Thunder |
Website | hinkley |
William C. Hinkley High School or simply Hinkley High School is a public high school in Aurora, Colorado, United States. It is one of eight high schools in Aurora Public Schools. [2] In 2007, Hinkley was ranked within the top 1000 public high schools in the United States by Newsweek . [3]
Hinkley's student newspaper is The Talon.
Hinkley is an Engineering and Biomedical pathway school.
Hinkley offers one of the district's few International Baccalaureate programmes, [4] and is one of only a handful of schools to offer an IB Human Rights course. [5]
In order to ease the 150-hour community service requirement of the IB Programme, a student organization known as the Landmines Task Force was created. The group raises money and awareness regarding the international landmine problem, donating through the United Nations Association's Adopt-A-Minefield to help eradicate landmines in Mozambique. To date[ when? ], the group has raised over $20,000. [6] The program was started by IB HL African History teacher Christine Sundberg in the 2003/2004 school year; the program has ceased to exist since the 2008/2009 school year.
Hinkley's free/reduced lunch rate is 62% of the students. [7]
Hinkley has won five CHSAA state championships. Their most successful sport is boys basketball, in which they won two titles (1994 and 1998).
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