Bellevue East High School
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.
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Key facts
• 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)
Athletics
Athletics
• 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.
Performing arts
Performing arts
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.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni
• 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
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- 1.National Center for Education Statistics. BELLEVUE EAST SR HIGH SCHOOL.
- 2.NEBRASKA SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION. Nebraska School Activities Association.
- 3.SCC: Viewing School - Bellevue East High School. Show Choir Community.
- 4.Taylor, Eric. Catching up with Jerry DePoyster. Wahoo Newspaper. November 28, 2008.
- 5.Tsyver, Robynn. "At UNO, former Virginia Sen. Webb sounds like a presidential candidate". Omaha World-Herald. 2015-05-07. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- 6.'Airplane!' star moved to Nebraska – 'the armpit of world' – during high school, graduated from Bellevue High.
- 7.Bonnie McElveen-Hunter.
- 8.Kaufman, Kirby. Bellevue High grad Rik Bonness guest at BPS Foundation breakfast. Omaha World-Herald. May 23, 2013.
- 9.Bellevue born entrepreneur speaks to business classes.
- 10.BPS Alumni cbignore. BPS Alumni Excellence Volume 3.
- 11.Baseball Reference. Buddy Carlyle Statistics and History.
- 12.WOWT. Bellevue's Tyler Cloyd Loses MLB Debut. September 3, 2012.
- 13.Former Chieftain Turner takes long journey to reach WNBA.
- 14.Hertel, Alyssa. Mikey Gow, an ambidextrous quarterback out of Nebraska, visits Iowa State's football camp. Des Moines Register. 15 June 2022.
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