Crescent Heights High School (Medicine Hat)

Crescent Heights High School
Crescent Heights High School
Address
	1201 Division Avenue NE; Medicine Hat, Alberta; Canada
Coordinates	50°03′11″N 110°41′13″W / 50.053°N 110.687°W
Information
School type	Public junior/senior high school
Motto	Invictus
School board	Medicine Hat School District No. 76
Principal	Pat Grisonich
Grades	7–12
Enrollment	1,300 (210 per grade)
Mascot	Viking
Team name	Vikings;
Website	www.chhsweb.ca

Crescent Heights High School is a public high school with approximately 1,300 students in grades 7-12 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The school is part of the Medicine Hat School District No. 76 and is one of four high schools in the city of Medicine Hat, Alberta supporting a population of some 60,000 people. There are approximately 210 students per grade. The junior high school students are grouped in homeroom classes while the senior high school students are in classes independent of each other.

Sports and extracurricular programs

CHHS offers a wide variety of extracurricular programs and sports activities for students to participate in including:

Athletics

Badminton
Basketball
Cross country running
Football
Volleyball
Rugby
Track and Field
Ringette Academy
Table Tennis

Extracurriculars

Anime
Jr and Sr Council
Chess
Religion Based Groups
Robotics Club
Grad Choir
Jazz Band
Myplace activities for grade sevens and eights
E-Sports Club

Fine Arts

CHHS is also known for its remarkable arts programs that include the drama, band, and visual art programs.

Theatre Arts

CHHS Drama has set the bar high for its outstanding renditions of plays and musicals year after year. Their plays are often known for their outstanding live musicians in the pit orchestra. Many CHHS graduates of the Drama program have gone on to pursue the Fine Arts professionally.

In the spring of 2011, CHHS Drama proudly presented the amateur showing of the Broadway musical "Happy Days: The Musical". In the Winter of 2016, CHHS Drama presented the incredible "Addams Family Musical".

Senior Band

The CHHS Senior Band, directed by Curtis Perrin, has toured around the world and is best known for success at the Harrogate International Music Festival. They have been requested as repeat performers at St. James Church, Birstwith, UK for the past 6 years. Many graduates of the Band program have gone on to pursue music professionally, achieving outstanding success.

"Skid Contests"

Every year, the Skids get together for the annual "Skid-I-thon", in which every Skid competes to see whom can be the most lit. As of 2016, the graduating class of 2017 is destroying all records.

Notable alumni

Terri Clark - Country music star
Gordie Johnson - Musician, current frontman of Grady, former frontman of Big Sugar
Aaron Crawford - CFL Football Player
Gabe Jackson - Professional Snake

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