Clay High School (Indiana)

For schools with similar names, see Clay High School.

Clay High School
Address
19131 Darden Road
South Bend, Indiana, St. Joseph County, 46637
United States
Coordinates 41°43′53″N 86°14′19″W / 41.7314°N 86.2385°W / 41.7314; -86.2385Coordinates: 41°43′53″N 86°14′19″W / 41.7314°N 86.2385°W / 41.7314; -86.2385
Information
Type Public high school
Established 1939
School district South Bend Community School Corporation
Principal Mansour Eid
Faculty 72
Grades 9–12
Enrollment 1275 (2013-14)
Campus Urban
Color(s)               
Athletics conference Northern Indiana Athletic Conference
Team name Colonials
Rival South Bend Washington
Newspaper The Colonial
Yearbook Minuteman
Website School website
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Clay High School is a public high school located in South Bend, Indiana. It is the Fine Arts school in the South Bend Community School Corporation magnet program.

Fine arts

Clay High School is the Magnet High School for the Visual and Performing Fine Arts, and offers various fine arts classes such as dance, theatre tech, music theory, drawing, photography, ceramics, and piano/keyboarding. Clay also offers a Fine Arts Connection course which traces the relationships in the fine arts throughout history with hands-on activities. All magnet students are entitled to free private music lessons.

Picture of the front of Clay High School.
Clay High School

Advanced courses in Clay High School's music department require auditions. For those not interested in auditioning, basic classes are offered such as Mixed Choir, Orchestra, and Band. More advanced classes, such as Swing Choir, Advanced Choir, Women's Choir, Chamber Orchestra, and Jazz Band, require auditions (which usually occur at the beginning or end of the school year). The band, orchestra, and swing choir have all received Gold Division awards at ISSMA competitions.

Magnet grants also allow the school to perform four theatrical performances each school year: one play, two musicals, and a series of one act plays. The school's thespian group performs shortened versions of these plays along with monologues and skits for competitions.

Visual Arts has also thrived. Since the beginning of the magnet program, many artists from Clay have attained varies from many contests such as the Scholastics Art and Writing. Visual Arts has established a strong base in the magnet program, create future artists respectively.

Athletics

Rivals include the South Bend Washington Panthers, the South Bend Riley Wildcats, the South Bend John Adams Eagles, the South Bend St. Joseph's Indians, the Mishawaka Cavemen, and the Mishawaka Marian Knights.

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Search for Public Schools - School Detail for Clay High School". ed.gov. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
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