Batavia High School is a public high school located in Batavia, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Batavia Local School District. Past enrollment has exceed 600 students. The school mascot is the Bulldog. The school is located 20 miles east of Cincinnati within the village of Batavia, which is a village of about 1,700 people and is the county seat of Clermont County. A county with a population of approximately 211,973. The school district encompasses the village and surrounding areas serving a total population of approximately 14,300. Batavia High School is a participant with the Southern Buckeye Conference, or SBAAC, and the rival of the Batavia Bulldog sports teams are the Williamsburg Wildcats. Whom are located just 10 minutes away.
History of Batavia High School
The village of Batavia was founded in 1814. The first settler in the area was Ezekiel Dimmitt, of whom often paid itinerant teachers to come school not only his children, but children of other locals throughout the area.
There had been several designated areas throughout the village for the teaching of children, including a public school established at a Presbyterian Church, which was a small frame building located on the east side of market street, with two teachers, and a wooden floor with a hold in it that was used for discipline. The other unofficial Establishment was a log malt house that was part of a deserted distillery at the head of Spring Street.
The next building to house the youth of Batavia include the first building built as a school, which was an eight-room brick building on the upper end of Main Street that can still be seen today, existing as a private residence and church. It was here that the citizens of Clermont County took advantage of the Akron Law, which provided for the establishment of school boards, and allowed for an organized school to be produced. On June 1, 1850, Batavia became the first community in Clermont County to take advantage of the Akron Law, and created the School of District #1 of Batavia Township, possessing a Board of Education and creating Batavia Local Schools. The first president of the schools was Edward Scofield.
Student Body
At Batavia High School, of the total enrolled, about 9% are part of a minority group, with American Indian/Alaskan Native enrollment being 0.4%, Asian enrollment being 0.4%, African American enrollment being 2%, Hispanic enrollment being 2%, and two or more races being 4%. White enrollment takes up 91% of the student body. Gender is split 50%-50%, and the total percentage of economically disadvantaged students at Batavia High School is 38%.
Academics
Approximately 625 students attend Batavia High School, with 528 attending the High school campus full-time, and the rest either to the Great Oaks Career Center or full-time at the college campuses for CCP credit.
Batavia High School offers a few Advanced Placement (AP) classes, including: AP Biology AP U.S. History AP Calculus AB AP Environmental Science The AP participation rate is 23% at Batavia High School.
Batavia High school also offers a variety of tests at its facilities, offering the ASVAB test on two separate dates in the 2015–2016 school year, as well as the American Legion's Americanism Test two separate years, in the 2013-2014 and 2015-2016 school years. Batavia High School seats several sittings of the ACT, offering four sittings in the 2015–2016 school year. Batavia also offers a sitting for the PSAT/NMSQT.
Further, Batavia High School has become more involved with the newly created CCP, or College Credit Plus programs created to allow High school students to take college credits at local universities. Batavia High School students are eligible for both Southern State and the University of Cincinnati- Clermont Campus credits. Several CCP classes are also taught on campus at the high school by several qualified teachers, with most of the AP classes doubling as CCP Credit through one of the two universities listed.
Students are also given the option to dually attend several of the Great Oaks Vocational Career Campuses, choosing to go to one of four available campuses.
Extracurricular activities
Batavia students have a variety of clubs they can participate in, with many opportunities being presented in both the National Honor Society and Business Professionals of America (BPA) at Batavia. The National Honor Society participates in Leadership Conferences, such as the Anthony Munoz Youth Leadership Seminar, and around the school events. The NHS also funds a scholarship offered to Non-NHS members of the Batavia student body in honor of Alan Gordon.