Bellevue East High School

• Name — Bellevue East High School • Address — 1401 High School Drive • City — Bellevue • State — Nebraska • Zipcode — 68005 • Website — Bellevue East HS • District — Bellevue P.S. • Superintendent — Jeff Rippe • Principal — Jeffery Wagner • Schooltype — High school • Grades — 9-12 • Language — English • Area — Bellevue, Nebraska • Mascot — Chieftains • Team Name — Chieftains • Colors — purple silver white Purple, silver and white • Founded — 1962 • Enrollment — 1,482 (2018–19) • Ratio — 15.09 • Staff — 98.20 (FTE) Bellevue East High School is a four-year public secondary school in Bellevue, a suburb south of Omaha, Nebraska. The current facility opened in 1962 as Bellevue High School and was renamed Bellevue East in 1977, following the opening of Bellevue West. It is part of the Bellevue Public School System, with approximately 1,450 students in grades 9 through 12.

• State championships • Season — Sport — Number of championships — Year • Fall — Football — 0 • Cross country, boys — 0 • Cross country, girls — 0 • Volleyball — 0 • Softball — 0 • Golf, girls — 0 • Tennis, boys — 0 • Unified bowling — 0 • Winter — Basketball, boys — 0 • Basketball, girls — 3 — 2002, 2006, 2011 • Swimming & Diving, boys — 0 • Swimming & Diving, girls — 0 • Wrestling, boys — 3 — 1961, 1964, 1972 • Wrestling, girls — 0 • Bowling, boys — 0 • Bowling, girls — 0 • Spring — Baseball — 0 • Soccer, boys — 0 • Soccer, girls — 0 • Track and field, boys — 1 — 1991 • Track and field, girls — 3 — 1991, 1992, 1993 • Golf, boys — 0 • Tennis, girls — 0 • Total — 10 Bellevue East's marching band won the Class A championship in the 2021 NSBA state marching contest.

BEHS Vocal Music is under the direction of Carly Fox and has one competitive show choir. including the mixed-section group "Take II". Bellevue East's Marching Band and Winter Winds shows have been written most recently by Michael J. Miller, famously known as the brass writer for the DCI group, Colts.

• Jerry DePoyster, Class of 1964: football player • Jim Webb, Class of 1965: United States Senator from Virginia, screenwriter, and author • Robert Hays, Class of 1965: actor • Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Class of 1968: businesswoman and former U.S. Ambassador to Finland • Rik Bonness, Class of 1972: professional football player • Barclay Knapp, Class of 1975: Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, CEO & Co-Founder of M2M Spectrum Networks. • Buddy Carlyle, Class of 1996: Major League Baseball player • Tyler Cloyd, Class of 2005: Major League Baseball player • Yvonne Turner, Class of 2006: WNBA Basketball player • Mikey Gow, Class of 2026 (transferred): Ambidextrous high school quarterback