Seymour High School (Connecticut)
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| name = Seymour High School
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| motto = "Once a wildcat, always a wildcat"
| established = {{start date and age|1884|p=1}}
| ceeb = 070660
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| type = Public
| principal = Paul Lucke
| faculty = 47 {{Cite web|url=http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/16103|title = Seymour High School (2021 Ranking) | Seymour, CT}}
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| enrollment = 598 (2023-2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=0903990&ID=090399000793|title=Seymour High School|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=June 3, 2025}}
| grades = 9-12
| streetaddress = 2 Botsford Rd.
| city = Seymour
| state = Connecticut
| zipcode = 06483
| country = United States
| coordinates = {{coord|41.3861|-73.0944|format=dms|display=it}}
| district = Seymour Public Schools
| campus_type = Suburban
| colors = Blue and gold
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| athletics = Football, volleyball, cross country, boys and girls basketball, indoor and outdoor track and field, boys and girls swimming, baseball, softball, wrestling, weightlifting, girls tennis, boys and girls soccer
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| website = {{URL|https://www.seymourschools.org/seymour-high-school}}
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Seymour High School is a secondary school at 2 Botsford Road in Seymour, Connecticut in the United States.
History
The town of Seymour began building its first public high school in 1884 on Bank Street.{{cite web|url=http://historicbuildingsct.com/|title=Old Seymour High School (1886)|publisher=Historic Buildings of Connecticut|date=29 October 2009}} It was built on a {{convert|2|acre|m2|adj=on}} piece of property that the town purchased for $3,000. When the school first opened in the fall of 1886, it had 456 students, who all attended class in nine rooms. Later, the building was used as an elementary school, Center School. That building and its annex are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.{{cite web|url=http://electronicvalley.org/tour/oldhighschool.htm|title=Old High School|publisher=Electronic Valley Inc.|accessdate=2 May 2013}}
Seymour bought land on Pine Street (Broad Street Bridge area) in 1915. By 1916, a high school was built. After the 1955 flood the school needed major renovations. After the renovations were complete, in the 1960s, the Pine Street School was converted into a middle school and a new high school was opened on Botsford Road. In 2006, a 22 million dollar renovation was added to the high school.{{cite web |url=http://www.seymourct.org/about.aspx |title=About the Town of Seymour, Connecticut |accessdate=2008-07-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618110459/http://www.seymourct.org/about.aspx |archivedate=2008-06-18 }}
Athletics
Seymour High School is part of the Naugatuck Valley League(NVL) and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC).{{cite web|url=http://highschoolsports.courant.com/2012/standings/boys/basketball|title=District Standings|publisher=Hartford Courant|accessdate=4 April 2013}}
The Seymour High School Cheerleading team won the state championship in 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2010/03/26/sports/high_school/doc4b9da7e4aa65a187601015.txt|title=Cheerleading: Seymour, Oxford win state titles|publisher=American-Republican Inc.|date=14 March 2010}} and the Division IV regional championship in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/archives/entry/seymour_high_school_cheerleaders_take_first_in_competition|title=Seymour High School Cheerleaders Take First In Competition|publisher=Valley Independent Sentinel|date=19 March 2012}}
The last state title the football team won was in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/09/08/sports/redzone/doc48bb4e5dcaca8634494757.txt|title=Seymour football coach Sponheimer retiring after season|author=Mark Jaffee|publisher= American-Republican Inc.|date=September 8, 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://valley.newhavenindependent.org/archives/entry/seymour_sponheimer_honored|title=Seymour's Sponheimer Honored|author=Eliot Schickler|publisher=Valley Independent Sentinel|date=May 17, 2010}}
The baseball team has won the state championship in 2007 and made five other appearances in the state championship.{{cite web|url=http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2012/05/02/sports/high_school/doc4fa1eeddd1d72354661055.txt|title=WEDNESDAY'S BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Seymour coach Bob Kelo earns 400th victory|publisher=New Haven Register|date=May 2, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://nhrbaseball.blogspot.com/2012/05/seymour-coach-bob-kelo-wins-400th.html|title=Seymour coach Bob Kelo wins 400th career game|publisher=New Haven Register|date=May 2, 2012}}
The Wildcats Softball Team has won multiple state championships (1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2009). From 2005-2007, they had a 78-game winning streak which is a Connecticut record and ranks 6th nationally all-time. In 2004, Seymour Softball set a Connecticut state record for the most wins in a season (28). In 2006, Seymour's 31 home runs were the 8th best nationally all-time, and their 27 runs allowed was 3rd fewest nationally all-time.{{clarify|reason="Runs allowed" is jargon, and should be clarified|date=August 2022}}{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
The weightlifting team won a 2014 NVL Championship win.{{cite web|url=http://www.rep-am.com/sports/high_school/788041.txt|title=Seymour wins NVL wieghtlifting crown|publisher=American-Republican Inc.|date=1 March 2014}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.seymourschools.org/seymour-high-school}}
{{Commons category|Old Seymour High School}}
{{Naugatuck Valley League}}
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Category:Schools in New Haven County, Connecticut
Category:Public high schools in Connecticut
Category:School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Category:National Register of Historic Places in New Haven County, Connecticut