McKinney Boyd High School

McKinney Boyd High School
Location
McKinney , Texas USA
Information
Type	Free public
Established	2006
School district	McKinney Independent School District
Principal	Rick McDaniel
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	about 3000 (09-10)
Campus size	510,000 sq. ft.
Campus type	Suburban
Color(s)	Scarlet and Navy
Mascot	Bronco
Website	McKinney Boyd High School

McKinney Boyd High School (commonly Boyd, Boyd High School, McKinney Boyd, or MBHS) is a public secondary school located on North Lake Forest Drive in McKinney, Texas, USA that serves ninth, tenth, eleventh grade and twelfth grade students. The class of 2008 was the first the school's first graduating class. The school is part of the McKinney Independent School District.

History and forward plans

This is the third high school in McKinney, the others being McKinney High School and McKinney North High School. Setting McKinney Boyd up has proved controversial with many students being compulsorily transferred from the other schools. Further, bussing long distances to achieve socio-economic diversity is being continued.

Opened in August 2006, McKinney Boyd is named after Mary Crane Boyd who endowed an earlier school in 1914. Starting in fall 2007, Boyd began to enroll twelfth graders. The school holds 3,000 students, after the development was completed in the summer of 2008, making it one of the largest schools nationally. Beginning the 2008-2009 school year, McKinney Boyd High School became the first and only of the three McKinney high schools to compete in district 5A.

Boyd High School completed all construction with the completion of the third phase over the summer of 2007.

Academics

Boyd operates on a 9:15 a.m. to 4:20 p.m. schedule, which includes seven class periods and five thirty minute lunch periods (A-E) spanning third and fourth period. Students may not leave campus during this time due to MISD's strict closed campus policy.

Extracurricular activities

Boyd allows most of its clubs to be started by some students, so long as each club has a sponsor and constitution.

Boyd is also, home to the Bailadoras Drill Team who compete locally and take hpme top honors. and UIL competitions in District 10 of the 5A Class. Districts are assigned arbitrarily, with the sole controlling factor being the proximity of schools in the district. Boyd, along with the other High Schools in MISD will move up to the 5A class in the 2008–2009 school year, following the UIL system's biennial realignment.

Sports teams include Soccer, Track and Field, Football, Tennis, Softball, Baseball, Cross Country, Swimming, Wrestling, Golf and Volleyball.

Volleyball

In 2006, its first varsity season, the volleyball team became the first team in Boyd's history to advance to the playoffs. With a record of 30-11 they also became the first team to win a playoff game. In 2007 it reached with a record of 38-2 and ranked second in the 4A DFW area poll behind Highland Park. In the playoffs the girls breezed through the first three rounds defeating Hallsville, the team who had knocked the Lady Broncs out of the 2006 post-season, Richardson Pearce, and perennial powerhouse Red Oak. With the victories the Lady Broncs reached the regional finals and played the number one team in state in 4A competition and eventual state champion, Waco Midway. Midway took the first two games in a rather quick easy fashion with victories of 25-10 and 25-22. But with tremendous effort the Lady Broncs battled back to win game three by the score of 25-23 and although they trailed the most of the fourth game came back to win 25-23 as well. But as the game continued on the Lady Broncs exhaustion finally caught up with them and in another quick game they lost 15-6. The girls finished the season with a record of 44-3 with loses to 5A Allen and 5A Arlington and then Midway. They are the first team in Boyd history to advance to the third round of playoffs, the 2008 Football team followed their achievement shortly after.

Football

Boyd's Varsity Football Team experienced an unsuccessful first season with a record of 0-10. However, in their second year the Varsity football team won seven regular season games behind sophomore quarterback Daryn Alves who led the 4A DFW area with more than 2,000 yards rushing and nearly 1,000 yards passing also during the regular season. Senior wide receiver Jeff Fuller, originally an Oklahoma University recruit, now Texas A&M, caught 3 touchdown passes. The team finished third in district 9-4A and advanced to the playoffs. While in the playoffs the Broncos met District 10-4A opponent Richardson Pearce. Pearce's offensive attack along with Boyd's had many people expecting a high scoring affair. The teams did not disappoint. Boyd trailed at halftime 28-21, but with a strong second half rushing performance by juniors Joseph Robinson, Montarious Pittman, senior A.J. Jones, and with Alves the Broncos managed to pull away after some key defensive stops. The final score was 49-35, giving Boyd, not only its first ever playoff appearance but its first ever playoff win. Over the "Fall Break" the team practiced to get ready for the defensive minded Marshall High School. The game was played at Tyler's Rose Stadium in near freezing temperatures and a cold rain that did not let up at all during the contest. The weather along with Marshall's ability to "contain" Alves, who did run for a touchdown as well as pass for one, proved a difficult task for the young program. But even with their lowest offensive point production in six games the Broncos managed to come away with a 21-14 victory. The next week the Broncos faced the state 4A poll's number nine team in Copperas Cove. The Bulldawgs potent offensive scheme proved to be too much for the Bronco defense as the score 48 points. Though many of the scores were off of longer yardage scores rather than more time consuming ones. Alves finished the season with perhaps his best game completing 14 of 18 passes for 150 yards and two scores to go along with 226 yards rushing and two scores. The final score was 48-26 ending the Broncos unbelievable season at a record of 9 wins and 4 losses, all of which were to teams who made the playoffs. However, in 2008 and in their first season in 5A, McKinney Boyd finished the season 3-7 with no wins in district play, with Josh Russell being named District 10-5A Honorable mention Linebacker.

Cross Country

The McKinney Boyd Men's Cross Country team has advanced to the regional meet in all three years by placing second in their district each year. In 2008, sophomore Aaron Allen won the district meet with a time of 16:34. In 2007, the team was ranked in the top 10 of all class 4A schools in the state, reaching as high as 4th overall. However, the team was stricken with various illnesses and other problems and failed to advance past regionals. In 2006 Nick Thorp won the district freshman of the year and newcomer of the year awards. In 2007 Aaron Allen won the district freshman of the year award. The Lady Bronco's Cross Country team has advanced to regionals in two of their three years, 2007 and 2008. In 2007 Lauren Katada won the district freshman of the year award for district 9-4A.

Band

The McKinney Boyd High School Band, or the Bronco Band, has had a successful début year. Its 2006 show titled "Bohemia!" is based on Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and was arranged by Dwayne Rice. The Boyd Band has competed at several marching competitions in 2006. The Boyd Band finished in sixth place in the preliminary round at the Denton Golden Triangle Classic. In the final round, they advanced to fourth place, ranking ahead of many larger bands.

They also competed at the UIL Region 3-4A Marching Band competition on October 25, 2006 and received Sweepstakes Ratings, the highest rating awarded in marching band competition. The rating signifies a First Division Rating from all three judges at the competition.

During the 2007-2008 school year the Boyd band performed the show "Music for a Great City" inspired by the writings of Aaron Copland. During the season the band finished ninth in finals at the Plano East marching invitational, earned unanimous first division ratings at UIL Region 25, and advanced to the 4A Area B marching contest where they earned ninth in prelims and seventh in finals. The concert bands also received their first UIL Sweepstakes awards in the spring of 2008. Both Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band earned Sweepstakes after competing in Region 25 UIL Concert and Sight-reading.

The 2008-2009 show, titled "eMotion", featured the music of Igor Stravinsky. It was made up of 4 parts, including "The Rite of Spring" and "Dumbarton Oaks". The Bronco Band gained full first division ratings at UIL All Region, and went on to play at the 5A Area marching contest. However, the band did not make it to finals. Concert season is still underway, with UIL competition approaching.

The band's 2009 - 2010 show is titled "On the Brink" and was composed by Aaron Guidry. The band placed second at the Golden Triangle Classic marching invitational, losing to Wakeland. The following week, the band performed at the Plano East Marching Invitational. They placed 2nd in the prelims to Poteet; however, they went on to earn first place in finals.

Choir

In February 2007, two students of the McKinney Boyd High School Choir, Katie Webb and Jon Knott, were selected into the TMEA All-State Choir, both as 4th Chair. Annually, 15,000 students tryout and only 250 students make it. On January 10, 2009, Webb (2nd chair) and Knott (1st chair) became the first 3-time All-State selections in the school's history.

Notable events

• On August 18 2006 a contract electrician was killed when working on the school's electrical system.

External links

• Official Site
• McKinney Independent School District