Bow High School

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Bow High School is a four-year public high school located in Bow, New Hampshire, United States, as part of the Bow School District. The principal is John House-Myers who took over in June 2006 from George Edwards who had been principal since the school's establishment.As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 640 students and 53.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.1.HistoryBow High School was established in 1997, serving grades 9 through 12. Before this time high school students from Bow went to Concord. In 1993 the Concord School District told Bow they could no longer send Bow students to Concord High after the 1996-1997 school year. Immediately Bow started to make plans for a high school of their own. The school was built and now sits on the shores of Turee Pond. The school was originally designed to accommodate 600 students, and in 2005/2006 had a student population of 640. The school cost $16 million. Beginning in the fall of 2014, the school began serving students from the neighboring town of Dunbarton.The school has a 600-seat auditorium, an 800-seat gym, a video production facility and state of the art technology.AcademicsClassesClasses at Bow High School are leveled in a heterogeneous manner. Each student at BHS is required to take two science classes, which is fulfilled through a mandatory Integrated Science and Technology class freshman and sophomore year, although the majority of students take more than that. Students are required to graduate with two and a half Building Essential Skills for Tomorrow (B.E.S.T) classes (physical education). Students are also required to take a freshmen Humanities class, a sophomore American studies class, a junior World Studies class, and seniors are required to take Senior Seminar, a class that directs them through their senior project.