Hinkley High School

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William C. Hinkley High School
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Hinkley High school in 2008
Address
Hinkley High School
1250 Chambers Road

,
Colorado
80011

United States
Coordinates 39°44′05″N104°48′31″W / 39.73467°N 104.80866°W / 39.73467; -104.80866
Information
MottoBring the Thunder
Established1963(61 years ago) (1963)
School district Aurora Public Schools
CEEB code 060073
PrincipalJennifer Abeyta-Cifuentes
Faculty176 (2017)
Grades9-12
Enrollment2184 (2017) [1]
Color(s)Cadet blue and silver
  
Athletics5A
Athletics conferenceSkyline League
MascotThunder
Website hinkley.aurorak12.org

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]

Contents

Hinkley's student newspaper is The Talon.

Hinkley is an Engineering and Biomedical pathway school.

IB Programme

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.

Demographics

Hinkley's free/reduced lunch rate is 62% of the students. [7]

Athletics

Hinkley has won five CHSAA state championships. Their most successful sport is boys basketball, in which they won two titles (1994 and 1998).

Football

Basketball

Boys Basketball

  • 1994 State 5A champions
  • 1998 State 4A champions

Baseball

Cross Country

Boys Cross Country

  • 1964 State Division II champions

[8]

Notable alumni

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