Barbers Hill High School

Barbers Hill High School
Address
9600 Eagle Drive Mont Belvieu , Texas 77580-1108 United States
Coordinates	29°50′35″N 94°51′08″W / 29.8431°N 94.8521°W / 29.8431; -94.8521
Information
School type	Public high school
Motto	"We Can, We Will, We're Barbers Hill"
Established	1929
School district	Barbers Hill Independent School District
Principal	Lance Murphy
Teaching staff	144.98 (on an FTE basis)[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	2,084 (2023–2024)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	14.37[1]
Color(s)	Blue & White
Athletics conference	UIL Class AAAAA
Mascot	Eagle/Lady Eagle
Website	hs.bhisd.net

Barbers Hill High School is a school based in Mont Belvieu, Texas, and is classified as a 5A school by the UIL. It is part of the Barbers Hill Independent School District located in western Chambers County. For the 2021-2022 school year, the school was given an "A" by the Texas Education Agency.^[2]

The Barbers Hill Eagles compete in the following sports:^[3]

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Cross Country
• Football
• Golf
• Soccer
• Softball
• Swimming and Diving
• Tennis
• Track and Field
• Volleyball

• Baseball
  • 2021(5A)
• Softball
  • 2021(5A)
• Football^[4]
  • 1971(1A)^ 1976(1A)

^Co-Champion with Sonora High School

• Girls Basketball^[5]
  • 1982(3A), 1983(3A), 1997(3A)
• Boys Track^[6]
  • 1935(All), 1956(B)
• Individual
  • 2014 World Association of Bencher and Deadlifters ^[7]

Barbers Hill High School is the home of the award-winning Soaring Eagle Marching Band. In the 2010 and 2011 marching seasons, the band received straight 1's for a first division rating at the UIL Region Marching Band Competition. The Soaring Eagle Marching Band was one of only 2 bands (the other being the Galena Park High School marching band) to receive this rating at the contest. In 2011 the Soaring Eagle Marching Band went on to the regional marching contest. In 2013, the Soaring Eagle Marching Band and 3 other schools in Area 4A went on to play at state in San Antonio.^[8] In the spring, the SEMB divides into 3 concert bands, the Barbers Hill High School Wind Ensemble (the premier performing group in the district), the BHHS Symphonic Band (middle performing group), and the BHHS Concert Band.

• State Wind Ensemble:^[9]
  • 1991(3A)

One Act Play^[10]

• 1996 (3A) "Strider"
• 1999 (3A) "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"
• 2003 (3A) "Strider"
• 2010 (4A) "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail"

In January 2020, a student was suspended and informed that he would be forbidden from attending graduation due to the length of his dreadlocks. However, the student's family and political activists have asserted that the action taken against him was discriminatory.^[11] Other students of the high school also spoke out against the policy, describing it as gender discrimination, since girls are allowed to have long hair, while boys are not.^[12] A federal judge ruled that the district’s hair policy was discriminatory.^[13]

On 31 August 2023, another student was suspended over his dreadlocks. His family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles.^[14] Texas passed the CROWN Act on May 27, 2023, and the law took effect on 1 September 2023.^[15]

• Carl Brazell (1935), NFL running back^[16]
• Buddy Tinsley (1943), professional football player and Canadian Football Hall of Famer^[17]
• Charli Collier (2018), WNBA player, 1st overall pick in the 2021 WNBA draft^[18]
• Cam Cauley (2021), Infielder in the Texas Rangers organization^[19]

• Official website