Seymour High School (Connecticut)

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Seymour High School
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Seymour High School (Connecticut)
2 Botsford Rd.

Seymour
,
Connecticut
06483

United States
Coordinates 41°23′10″N73°05′40″W / 41.3861°N 73.0944°W / 41.3861; -73.0944
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Type Public
Motto"Once a wildcat, always a wildcat"
Established1884(140 years ago) (1884)
School districtSeymour Public Schools
CEEB code 070660
PrincipalJames Freund
Faculty47 [1]
Grades9-12
Enrollment654 (2016-17) [2]
Campus typeSuburban
Color(s)Blue and gold
  
AthleticsFootball, volleyball, cross country, boys and girls basketball, indoor and outdoor track and field, boys and girls swimming, baseball, softball, wrestling, weightlifting, girls tennis, boys and girls soccer
Website www.seymourschools.org/seymour-high-school

Seymour High School is a secondary school at 2 Botsford Road in Seymour, Connecticut in the United States. [1]

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History

The town of Seymour began building its first public high school in 1884 on Bank Street. [3] It was built on a 2-acre (8,100 m2) piece of property that the town purchased for $3,000. When the school first opened in the fall of 1886, it had 456 students, who all attended class in nine rooms. Later, the building was used as an elementary school, Center School. That building and its annex are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [4]

Seymour bought land on Pine Street (Broad Street Bridge area) in 1915. [4] By 1916, a high school was built. [3] After the 1955 flood the school needed major renovations. After the renovations were complete, in the 1960s, The Pine Street school was converted into a middle school and a new high school was opened on Botsford Road. [4] In 2006, a 22 million dollar renovation was added to the high school. [5]

Seymour High School before its renovations SeymourHigh.jpeg
Seymour High School before its renovations
Seymour High School during its first year on Botsford Road. Built 1961. Seymour High School, Connecticut. Circa 1961.jpg
Seymour High School during its first year on Botsford Road. Built 1961.

Athletics

Seymour High School is part of the Naugatuck Valley League(NVL) and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC). [6]

The Seymour High School Cheerleading team won the state championship in 2010 [7] and the Division IV regional championship in 2012. [8]

The last state title the football team won was in 2007. [9] [10]

The baseball team has won the state championship in 2007 and made five other appearances in the state championship. [11] [12]

The Wildcats Softball Team has won multiple state championships (1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2009). From 2005-2007, they had a 78-game winning streak which is a Connecticut record and ranks 6th nationally all-time. In 2004, Seymour Softball set a Connecticut state record for the most wins in a season (28). In 2006, Seymour's 31 home runs were the 8th best nationally all-time, and their 27 runs allowed was 3rd fewest nationally all-time.[ clarification needed ][ citation needed ]

The weightlifting team won a 2014 NVL Championship win. [13]

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  2. ↑ "Seymour High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Old Seymour High School (1886)". Historic Buildings of Connecticut. 29 October 2009.
  4. 1 2 3 "Old High School". Electronic Valley Inc. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "About the Town of Seymour, Connecticut". Archived from the original on 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  6. ↑ "District Standings". Hartford Courant . Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "Cheerleading: Seymour, Oxford win state titles". American-Republican Inc. 14 March 2010.
  8. ↑ "Seymour High School Cheerleaders Take First In Competition". Valley Independent Sentinel. 19 March 2012.
  9. ↑ Mark Jaffee (September 8, 2008). "Seymour football coach Sponheimer retiring after season". American-Republican Inc.
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  11. ↑ "WEDNESDAY'S BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Seymour coach Bob Kelo earns 400th victory". New Haven Register. May 2, 2012.
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  13. ↑ "Seymour wins NVL wieghtlifting crown". American-Republican Inc. 1 March 2014.
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