Durant (Iowa) High School
| Durant High School | |
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| Address | |
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408 Seventh Street Durant, Iowa USA |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public Secondary |
| Established | c. 1910s |
| Oversight | Durant Community School District |
| Superintendent | Duane Bennett |
| Principal | Tony Neumann |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 276 |
| Color(s) | Blue and Gold |
| Athletics conference | River Valley |
| Mascot | Wildcats |
| Website | DHS Web site |
Coordinates: 41°36′11″N 90°54′47″W / 41.603°N 90.913°W
Durant High School is a four-year comprehensive high school located in Durant, Iowa. The school is part of the Durant Community School District, and has an enrollment of approximately 300 students in grades nine through 12.
Located at 408 Seventh Street in Durant (approximately two miles south of Interstate 80), Durant High School draws students from areas of southeastern Cedar County, northeastern Muscatine County and western Scott County, plus the community of .
The current Durant High School was completed in 1957, the same year the school fielded its first competitive football team. There have been many additions and renovations to the buildings in the years since.
Durant High School is a participant in a whole-grade sharing agreement with the nearby Bennett Community School District.[4] Each district is responsible for its own elementary school, while Bennett sends its junior high and high school students to Durant. This agreement has been in place since the 2005-2006 school year.
Durant (and more recently, Durant-Bennett) sports teams are known as the Wildcats; their uniforms display the school's colors of blue and gold.
The school fields athletic teams in 13 sports, including:
Durant-Bennett is classified as a 2A school (Iowa's second-smallest tier schools), according to the Iowa High School Athletic Association and Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union; in sports where there are fewer divisions, the Wildcats are always in the smallest class (e.g., Class 1A for wrestling). The school is a member of the 13-team River Valley Conference (RVC), which comprises similar-sized schools from communities in eastern Iowa, spanning roughly the Iowa City area to the west, to Camanche on the east, and as far north as Bellevue. Prior to joining the RVC and its predecessor, the Cedar Valley Conference, in 2008, Durant-Bennett was a member of the Eastern Iowa Hawkeye Conference (EIHC), a league that dated to the 1950s.
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