Bangor's 2013-2014 grade 5 and 8 students outperformed their peers from across the state on the Maine Educational Science Assessment, administered to all grade 5 and 8 Maine public school students each spring. Grade 5 measures students’ understanding in living environment and physical setting, and Read More
Department News
Congress to Campus Comes to BHS
Bangor High School has been honored to be selected as a participant of the University of Maine's Congress to Campus Program. The Congress to Campus Program was established by the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress to improve college students' understanding of Congress and American Read More
BHS and SportsNet Maine Enter Pilot Partnership
The Bangor School Department and SportsNet Maine are partnering together to feature BHS athletic programs and provide hands-on learning for students. SportsNet Maine is a media company that specializes in live streaming of high school athletics. The company partners with the Bangor Daily News to Read More
BHS Fall Sports Participation
Recognizing that stronger connections to school, healthier bodies, and improved achievement-readiness directly contributes to the mission of Academic Excellence for All, the Bangor School Department offers a variety of co-curricular, extra-curricular, intramural and athletic programs. This fall, 303 Read More
BHS Students Recognized by NY Times
Seven Bangor High School students were recognized this summer by the New York Times Learning Network for their online comments about news articles. Paige Brown was selected as a Runner-Up, and Maggie Mahaney, Stanley Clarke, Sam Han, Nicholas Danby, Vanessa Graham, and Elizabeth Robbins were Read More
2013-2014 Last Student Day
The 2013-2014 School Calendar provided for three storm days and we used a total of four days. Therefore, the last student day K-12 will be Thursday, June 19, 2014. Read More
BHS Junior wins the Maine Jr. Stockholm Water Prize
BHS STEM Academy junior, Mary Butler, has earned the top award in Maine’s Stockholm Junior Water Prize and will represent Maine at the 2014 U.S. National SJWP Competition in Herndon, Virginia in June. The top research project among the 51 state entries will earn the right to compete at the Read More
BHS earns National Silver Award
US News & World Report and the respected American Institutes for Research (AIR) have established BHS in the top 10% of over 19,400 schools in the 2014 publication America's Best High Schools, earning BHS a second consecutive National Silver Award. According to the U.S. News & World Report Read More
Bangor High School on List of America’s Most Challenging High Schools
BANGOR - Jay Mathews, education columnist for the Washington Post, has released his annual Index of Most Challenging Schools, and Bangor High School is one of only six Maine high schools on the list. Mr. Mathews explains that he designed the list “in contrast to the usual ranking of schools by test Read More
Bangor High School Students Awarded at Northern New England Science Symposium
Three Bangor High School students presented at the Northern New England Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (NNE-JSHS) held at the University of New Hampshire on March 27 and 28, 2014. According to its website, the Junior Science and Humanities Program (JSHS) was “established in 1958 to Read More