The Internet's Best Source of Information about the Fort Thomas
(Kentucky) Highlands High School Bluebirds Football Program!
QUICK FACTS:
--- Highlands High School (HHS) is a part of the Fort Thomas, Kentucky, Independent
School District, located in Campbell County (in northern Kentucky, a few miles
south of Cincinnati, Ohio).
--- Highlands is a public school with a total enrollment (grades 9-12) of approximately
820 students (both boys and girls).
--- Academically, the Fort Thomas Independent School District consistently ranks among
the top two school districts in Kentucky, and Highlands High School consistently
ranks among the top three public high schools in Kentucky.
--- Highlands is a member of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA),
and has been a member since 1920.
--- Highlands' football team is classified as Kentucky Class 5A, District 5 (Kentucky has
six football classes; 1A is for the smallest schools and 6A is for the largest schools).
Highlands plays two classes above the school's enrollment-assigned class.
--- Highlands is a member of the Northern Kentucky Athletic Conference (NKAC), and
has been a charter member since 1922.
--- Fort Thomas Highlands has won 17 official Kentucky state football championships,
in 1960, '61, '64, '68, '70, '75, '77, '81, '82, '89, '92, '96, '98, '99, 2000, '04, and '07.
--- The Highlands Bluebirds have won three "mythical" Kentucky state championships,
in 1930, '43, and '57 (Kentucky did not have a statewide championship system prior
to 1959). Thus, Highlands has won a total of 20 state football championships.
--- Highlands has finished the season ranked nationally seven times (1982, '96, '98, '99,
2000, '04, '07).
--- Heading into the 2008 season, Highlands ranks fifth in the entire nation and second
in Kentucky with respect to total number of wins (758 wins).
--- Highlands ranks first in the state with eleven undefeated football seasons (1930, '57,
'60, '61, '64, '68, '70, '82, '96, '98, 2007).
--- Highlands has sent graduates to play football for major Division I-A colleges and also
in the National Football League (NFL).
--- Highlands has been playing football since 1915.
--- Of the 93 seasons of football Highlands has played, 82 of those have been winning
seasons (nine have been losing seasons, and two have been even seasons).
Site created: May 2005
Site maintained by Joseph Williams, M.D.,
Highlands Class of 1995
Last updated: May 2008
Contact: highlands_birds@yahoo.com
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