Bay City Western High School
| Bay City Western High School | |
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| Address | |
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500 W. Midland Road Auburn, Michigan 48611 United States |
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| Coordinates | 43°36′16″N 84°04′42″W / 43.6045°N 84.0784°WCoordinates: 43°36′16″N 84°04′42″W / 43.6045°N 84.0784°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Secondary |
| Established | 1973 |
| School district | Bay City Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Janet Grief |
| CEEB code | 230128 |
| NCES School ID | 260426004113 |
| Dean | Michelle Murray |
| Principal | Judy Cox |
| Athletic Director | Mike Thayer |
| Teaching staff | 51 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,219 (2012-2013) |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) |
Brown and Gold |
| Nickname | Warrior |
| Rival | Bay City Central |
| Accreditation | North Central Association |
| Website | BCW website |
Bay City Western High School (colloquially referred to as BCW or WHS) is a high school located at 500 Midland Road, Auburn, Michigan. Its mascot is the Warrior, and its colors are brown and gold. The school fight song consists of music from the march Winchester (from Winchester High School, Winchester, Virginia), with original words written for Western High. The entrance roads to the school are Bryant Boulevard and Noell Way, named in honor of the school district administrator and head of the school board at the time.
Western High School opened its doors in September 1973 after two years of construction. It was built due to overcrowding at Bay City Central and T. L. Handy High School. During this time the students who lived in Bay City would go to school in the morning from 7:00 AM to 12:00 Noon; and those outside of the city would go in the afternoon, from 12:00 Noon through 5:00 PM. In 1973, new boundaries were established, with mostly everyone west of Two Mile Road attending Western High School. Seniors (and some juniors) were given the option to complete their education at Handy or Central. On the first day of school there were Handy kids on one side of the room and Central kids on the other side. By the end of the year they were all Western High Students. When the building opened, construction on some parts of the facility had not yet been completed, including the main hallway, the swimming pool, the football stadium, and the commons. There were student desks still in boxes in some parts of the building. In some cases students ate their lunches on top of carpet rolls in the commons that had not yet been installed. It has been claimed that, after Handy High School was converted back to T.L Handy middle school (having been Handy High school since 1940) in 1990, two of its former students, now being forced to attend Western, went to their old school's parking lot and danced their own personal Homecoming, rather than attending Western's. At commencement that year former Handy students were permitted to wear their traditional red caps and gowns while Western students wore brown and gold.
In the 1980s it was announced that Western Middle School would be created and would share a building with Western High School. To this day, Western Middle School occupies half of the building that was originally designed for the high school. The two schools are able to operate simultaneously because of different schedules. In addition, classrooms are physically separated into different areas of the building. The two schools share the building's swimming pool, gymnasium, and commons.
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