Barbers Hill High School Explained

Barbers Hill High School
Motto:	"We Can, We Will, We're Barbers Hill"
Established:	1929
Grades:	9–12
Principal:	Lance Murphy
Teaching Staff:	139.63
Ratio:	14.12
Enrollment:	1,972 (2022–23)^[1]
Colors:	Blue & White
Conference:	UIL Class AAAAA
Mascot:	Eagle/Lady Eagle
Rival:	Dayton High School^[2] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7]
Streetaddress:	9600 Eagle Drive
Zipcode:	77580-1108
Coordinates:	29.8431°N -94.8521°W

Barbers Hill High School is a school based in Mont Belvieu, Texas, and is classified as a 5A school by the UIL. It is part of the Barbers Hill Independent School District located in western Chambers County. For the 2021-2022 school year, the school was given an "A" by the Texas Education Agency.^[8]

Athletics

The Barbers Hill Eagles compete in the following sports:^[9]

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Cross Country
• Football
• Golf
• Soccer
• Softball
• Swimming and Diving
• Tennis
• Track and Field
• Volleyball

State Champions

• Baseball
  • 2021(5A)
• Softball
  • 2021(5A)
• Football^[10]
  • 1971(1A)^ 1976(1A)

^Co-Champion with Sonora High School

• Girls Basketball^[11]
  • 1982(3A), 1983(3A), 1997(3A)
• Boys Track^[12]
  • 1935(All), 1956(B)
• Individual
  • 2014 World Association of Bencher and Deadlifters ^[13]

Music

Barbers Hill High School is the home of the award-winning Soaring Eagle Marching Band. In the 2010 and 2011 marching seasons, the band received straight 1's for a first division rating at the UIL Region Marching Band Competition. The Soaring Eagle Marching Band was one of only 2 bands (the other being the Galena Park High School marching band) to receive this rating at the contest. In 2011 the Soaring Eagle Marching Band went on to the regional marching contest. In 2013, the Soaring Eagle Marching Band and 3 other schools in Area 4A went on to play at state in San Antonio.^[14] In the spring, the SEMB divides into 3 concert bands, the Barbers Hill High School Wind Ensemble (the premier performing group in the district), the BHHS Symphonic Band (middle performing group), and the BHHS Concert Band.

State Champions

• State Wind Ensemble:^[15]
  • 1991(3A)

Drama & Theatre

State Champions

One Act Play^[16]

• 1996 (3A) "Strider"
• 1999 (3A) "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"
• 2003 (3A) "Strider"
• 2010 (4A) "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail"

Dress code controversy

In January 2020, a student was suspended and informed that he would be forbidden from attending graduation due to the length of his dreadlocks. However, the student's family and political activists have asserted that the action taken against him was discriminatory.^[17] Other students of the high school also spoke out against the policy, describing it as gender discrimination, since girls are allowed to have long hair, while boys are not.^[18] A federal judge ruled that the district’s hair policy was discriminatory.^[19]

On 31 August, 2023, another student was suspended over his dreadlocks. His family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.^[20] Texas passed the CROWN Act on May 27, 2023, and the law took effect on 1 September, 2023.^[21]

Notes and References

1. Web site: BARBERS HILL H S. National Center for Education Statistics. September 21, 2023.
2. Web site: Taylor . David . 2017-10-08 . Broncos lose heartbreaker to rival, 28-26 . 2023-06-08 . Chron . en-US.
3. Web site: 2023-06-07 . Jan. 6: Barbers Hill 72, Dayton 58 . 2023-06-07 . Chron.
4. Web site: 2023-06-07 . FOOTBALL PREVIEW - Road to playoffs now runs through Crosby, Barbers Hill . 2023-06-07 . Baytown Sun.
5. Web site: 2018-10-01 . Dayton announces 2018 homecoming king and queen . 2023-06-08 . AP NEWS . en.
6. Web site: 2020-12-03 . Barbers Hill too much for Dayton 42-6 . 2023-06-08 . Liberty Vindicator . en.
7. Web site: Barbers Hill Eagles . 2023-06-09 . Lone Star Football Network . en.
8. Web site: TEA . . 26 April 2024.
9. http://www.theathleticsdepartment.com/schools/Monte-Belvieu-Barbers-Hill/ The Athletics Department
10. http://lonestarfootball.net/team.asp?T=1515&S=1971 Lone Star Football Network
11. http://uil100.org/archives/athletics/basketball-girls.php UIL Girls Basketball Archives
12. http://www.uil100.org/archives/athletics/track-field-team.php?boys_girls=Boys UIL Boys Track Archives
13. Web site: World Power: Barbers Hill sophomore wins power lifting world championship. 3 December 2014 .
14. Web site: Texas State Marching Band Contest.
15. http://uil100.org/archives/music/wind-ensemble-contest.php UIL State Wind Ensemble Contest Champions
16. http://www.uil100.org/archives/academics/one-act-play.php UIL One Act Play State Champions
17. Web site: Cox . Chelsey . Texas teen banned by high school from attending graduation after refusing to cut dreadlocks . USA Today . January 25, 2020 . January 24, 2020.
18. Web site: Garvin . Keith . Smith . Tierra . More Barbers Hill students angered by school dress code, forced to cut their hair as well . KPRC . January 25, 2020 . Mont Belvieu . January 24, 2020.
19. Web site: Judge: Policy that suspended student over dreadlocks unfair . Associated Press . 25 September 2023 . 19 August 2020.
20. Web site: 2023-09-23 . A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now his family is suing Texas officials . 2023-12-16 . AP News . en.
21. Web site: Grenaway . Johannah . Texans can "be themselves unapologetically" as CROWN Act goes into effect . CBS . 25 September 2023 . 1 September 2023.