Crescent Heights High School (Medicine Hat)

Crescent Heights High School
Address
1201 Division Avenue NE
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Canada
Coordinates 50°03′11″N 110°41′13″W / 50.053°N 110.687°W / 50.053; -110.687Coordinates: 50°03′11″N 110°41′13″W / 50.053°N 110.687°W / 50.053; -110.687
Information
School type Public junior/senior high school
Motto Invictus
School board Medicine Hat School District No. 76
Principal Pat Grisonich
Grades 7–12
Enrollment 1,300 (210 per grade)
Mascot Viking
Team name
  • Vikings
Website www.chhsweb.ca

Crescent Heights High School is a public high school with approximately 1,300 students in grades 7-12 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The school is part of the Medicine Hat School District No. 76 and is one of four high schools in the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta supporting a population of some 60,000 people. There are approximately 210 students per grade. The junior high school students are grouped in homeroom classes while the senior high school students are in classes independent of each other.

Sports and extracurricular programs

CHHS offers a wide variety of extracurricular programs and sports activities for students to participate in including:

Athletics

Extracurriculars

Fine Arts

CHHS is also known for its remarkable arts programs that include the drama, band, and visual art programs.

Theatre Arts

CHHS Drama has set the bar high for its outstanding renditions of plays and musicals year after year. Their plays are often known for their outstanding live musicians in the pit orchestra. Many CHHS graduates of the Drama program have gone on to pursue the Fine Arts professionally, achieving mediocre success.

In the spring of 2011, CHHS Drama proudly presented the amateur showing of the Broadway musical "Happy Days: The Musical".

Senior Band

The CHHS Senior Band, directed by Curtis Perrin, has toured around the world and is best known for success at the Harrogate International Music Festival. They have been requested as repeat performers at St. James Church, Birstwith, UK for the past 6 years. Many graduates of the Band program have gone on to pursue music professionally, achieving outstanding success.

Notable alumni

References

    http://www.chhsweb.ca/

    External links


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