Deep Run High School
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Deep Run High School is located in The West End of Henrico County, Virginia. The school, operated by Henrico County Public Schools, is located at 4801 Twin Hickory Road.
The county's newest high school, first opening in the 2002-2003 school year, Deep Run initially opened its doors solely to freshmen and sophomores and has greatly expanded, with its first graduating class in 2005. The school has a capacity of over 1600 in the 2005-2006 school year.
Deep Run's colors are Black and Royal Blue and the school mascot is the Wildcat. (Black and Royal Blue)
Deep Run participates in VHSL AAA level athletic competition with district rivals such as Mills E. Godwin High School and Douglas S. Freeman High School. They have won three state championships in four years and a top ten football ranking.
Academics
Business - intro to business an marketing, business law, accounting, keyboarding
English - 9-12 college prep, 9-12 honors, 11-12 AP
Exceptional Education
Fine Arts - Art 1-5, Computer art 1-3, honors and AP art history
Foreign Language - Spanish 1 - 5 AP, French 1-5 AP, Latin, and Japanese
Health & PE - 9-10 Health & PE, Advanced PE
Marketing - intro to marketing & business, sports marketing
Mathematics - integrated 1-4, Algebra 1 &2, Geometry, Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry, Math Anaylsis, AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics
Publications - Jouralism 1&2, Yearbook 1&2
Science - Earth Science, Biology, Biology 2, AP Biology, Chemistry, AP Chemistry, Physics, AP Pysics, AP Environmental
Social Studies - World history 1 & 2, US & VA history (C, A, AP), US & VA government (C, A, AP), Art history, Our British History, 20th Century History, AP European
Technology - CAD & Technical Drawing, CIT Center
Works and Family - Drama, Chorus, Band, Orchestra, Foods & Wellness, Creatve Fashion, Teacher Intern
Air Force JROTC (beginning in the 2006-2007 schoolyear)
Wildcat News
Deep Run is proud to be one of the first high schools in the county with a fully-featured television studio. After being established in 2003 by advisor Bambi Jones and students Dayne Kaufman, Chris Carter, Kristin Jackson, and Amanda Blaschick, News Channel 7 remains the school's main source of news. Students and faculty can watch live episodes of the daily news show every Tuesday through Friday at 1:30PM.
Center for Information Technology
The Center for Information Technology (CIT for short) is a Henrico County specialty center that focuses on preparing students to attend college working on a degree for either Computer Science or Information Systems. The CIT is led by chairman Steve Long, who replaced the first chairperson, Doran McBride.
The courses students take are as follows:
Freshmen: Foundations of Information Systems & Technology
Students have introductory units on the Microsoft Office Suite, the Java programming language (Object-Oriented Programming), SQL (structured-programming language), HTML, Ethernet Networking, and computer ethics.
Sophomores: Information Systems Design and Development
Students learn about the Software Developmnent Lifecyle and effective Project Management skills during the first semester. PERT, Gantt, and Milestone Charts, Entity Relationship Diagram, and Project Plans & Charters. This section of the course is taught directly from the PMP Exam Preparation book. During the second semester, students apply what they learned about Project Management in designing a website for a non-profit organization. The juniors design and build the website. Sophomores are assigned the roles of Testers, for Quality Assurance of the website, and Project Managers. Also during the second semester, students learn more about Java and have an introductory unit in Javascript.
Juniors: Web Communications and Design
During the first semester students learn the importance of website usability and the top ten mistakes a web developer can make when designing a website. They are also introduced to the Macromedia Suite and have class lessons on Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Once familiar with Dreamweaver, students learn in-depth Javascript for form validation. They also develop and/or maintain websites for the faculty and staff of DRHS.
During the second semester, students are divided into project teams and then assigned to a local non-profit organization to develop a website for that organization with the skills that they learned during the first semester.
Software Design and Development
Students learn basics of the Java programming language, including class hierarchy, datatypes, looping, recursion, switch statements, and also review flowcharts and psuedocoding. This is mainly taught as an introductory course to Java - it covers enough aspects of the language to give students the ability to develop applications, but higher education is required to gain proficiency in Java.
Seniors: Capstone Project
Students get industry experience by working at local technology companies. Most seniors in the Specialty Center leave at 3PM on Mondays, and at 12:50 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Software Design and Development
Students learn basics of the Java programming language, including class hierarchy, datatypes, looping, recursion, switch statements, and also review flowcharts and psuedocoding. This is mainly taught as an introductory course to Java - it covers enough aspects of the language to give students the ability to develop applications, but higher education is required to gain proficiency in Java.
Faculty
Administration faculty include the Principal ( Dr. Aaron Spence), Four Assistant Principals (Rodney Berry, Becky Miller, Dave Myers, Tanya Smith), Five Office Assistants (Principal's Secretary, two in Main Office, Attendance Secretary, and a Finance secretary), Three Administrative Aides, a Student Activities Director,School Staff besides teachers include two Media Center Librarians and a Media center Office Assistant, an Alternative Learning Center position, a Cafeteria Manager, a Campus Duty position, a Maintenance Supervisor position, a Resource Officer, a school nurse, a Technology Trainer, and two Technology Support Technicians.
Deep Run Athletics
Deep Run is a relatively new school but has managed to climb its way to the top in atheletics. The sport that Deep Run has excelled in the last three years is men's Golf. While losing to rival school Mills E. Godwin in Districts they came back to win the Central Region Tournament and a third straight VHSL State Championship, making them for a short period ranked #1 in the State in overall sports.2005 was their best year in football. They only lost two games and continued on to the Division 5 playoffs. Though they lost badly to Huguenot High School, they gave a good effort. Deep Run's men's basketball team is mediocre.The Deep Run Women's Basketball Team has been on top of the Colonial District. They finished first in the regular season for the past two years and in their seond year as a varsity team they won the colonial district tournament. Their men's baseball program has improved and advanced to the regional playoffs after beating the both the 1st and 2nd seed teams, Freeman High School and Godwin High School. Deep Run Baseball won the Colonical District Playoff Tournament and received their first title. Deep Run also has what is considered a strong men's soccer program, making it to the district finals last season. As for women's sports, Deep Run has an excellent record Girl's Volleyball in which they finished second in the state to another district rival Douglas S. Freeman High School. Deep Run's girls basketball team is widely considered the best in the district. Deep Run is also the only public school with a field hockey team in the county.
Deep Run Vocal Music
[Deep Run High School Chorus Homepage]
Deep Run High School's vocal music program is comprised of four performing groups that meet as a class during the school day.
In addition to the scheduled classes, there are other performing groups that meet outside of school. These groups include the barbershop quartet a beautyshop quartet, and an unselect men's choir.
These groups have been featured in Walt Disney World through Disney's Magic Music Days, as well as earning superior ratings in competitions nationwide. Deep Run High School has competed (and earned 1st place rankings) in Orlando, FL; Boston, MA; and New York, NY.
Deep Run Band
The Deep Run Marching Wildcat Band has won awards in competition in 2003, 2004, and 2005 (including 3 Grand Champion awards for their 2005 marching show, Pirates of the Caribbean).
The Deep Run Marching Wildcat Band is headed by Frank Chlorie. Known for tricky sets, military marching style, and exciting music the Deep Run Marching Wildcats, being only four years old, is already greatly talked about. The band has a rigorous exercise regimen and the August band camp is compared to a bootcamp. Through their hard work, they are an award winning band.
This year the Deep Run Marching Band performed a show titled 'Spanish Fire' that concluded with Stan Kenton's "Malaga".
For the 2006-2007 school year, there are two drum majors.
Also with the band is the Deep Run Colorguard, and during the winter, the Deep Run Winterguard. And performing with the Winterguard is the Deep Run Winter Drumline and Pit. This is the first year Deep Run has had a winter ensemble. At the first competition on Feb. 25th, the Deep Run Winter Drumline scored a 79.3 which was the highest score given that day.
In recent news, director Frank Chlorie has announced that he will not be returning for the 2006-2007 school year.
Deep Run String Orchestra
The Deep Run String Orchestra has grown from four string musicians in its first year, to approximately twenty members, presently. The String Orchestra has won quite a few awards itself, and earned a "Superior" at a competition in Orlando during the 2004-2005 school year.
Deep Run Robotics
Black Pearl 1086 Robotics Team was started in 2003. Team 1086, Deep Run Pirates, represents Gracious Professionalism on and off the field. Our perseverance keeps us ever striving at the game while having fun. The team is often considered one of the more spirited teams. They produce robots and animations that are considered among the more creative on a regular basis. We continue to attend Regional and National competitions, while striving to our peers the skills needed to lead in the future. There accomplishments include:- 2004 VCU Imagery Award
- 2005 VCU DiamlerChrysler Team Spirit Award
- 2006 VCU Delphi "Driving Tomorrow's Technology" Award
External links
- [Deep Run High School official website]
- [Deep Run Football official website]
- [DRHS Vocal Music on the web].
- [Deep Run High School official Robotics website]
- [Deep Run Track and Cross Country website]
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