Brentwood Home Page Built in 1982, Brentwood High School was the city’s first public high school. Brentwood High School offers more than 20 Advanced Placement courses. In the class of 2010, 89 percent of students were eligible for HOPE scholarships, and Brentwood High School students were offered college scholarships worth more than $16 million. The class of 2010 had an ACT composite average of 26.
In 2010, Newsweek magazine ranked Brentwood High School No. 213 in the nation’s top 1,000 public schools, making it the No. 1 comprehensive public high school in Tennessee. For 2010-2011, enrollment will remain around 1,480. The blue and gold Bruins have earned awards in every sport over the years. Last year, two teams were state champions: boys’ track and field and boys’ tennis. The football team made it to the Class 6-A state semi-finals.
The school is known around the nation for its fine arts program. Students in the broadcasting program that produces the educational cable access channel, WBHS9, won 10 first-place awards, including Best TV Show in the State of Tennessee at the 2010 Tennessee High School Press Association Student Media Awards.
The school building also continues to get better. This summer Brentwood High renovated the gymnasium and the restrooms and will have new lockers installed by the beginning of the school year.
Brentwood High’s feeder school is Brentwood Middle School. Its website is http://www.wcs.edu/bhs.
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