Baton Rouge Magnet High School - Academics and Awards

Academics and Awards

BRMHS was awarded the Blue Ribbon for Academic Excellence for the school years 1982-1983 and 2003-2004. The school offers 19 Advanced Placement classes, including Science Lab, with an additional American Government course speculated for 2008-2009. It has 20 honors courses, two dual enrollment courses through Baton Rouge Community College, and three foreign languages; French I-V, Spanish I-V, Latin I-V. Due to funds being cut by the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Japanese is no longer offered. Greek is offered sporadically and was last offered in 2008. Due to faculty shortage, since 2007 German and Russian are no longer available. Having a college-preparatory Magnet program, BRMHS employs a rigorous curriculum resulting in almost all of its graduates attending college. The school regularly has the most National Merit Scholarship Award recipients in the state. The 270 students graduating in 2006 were offered over $8 million in college scholarships, with almost all going on to enter college.

Four graduates have also gone on to be named Rhodes Scholars after college. One graduate has gone on to be named a Fulbright Scholar.

It received a special award in 2004 from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., distinguishing it as one of five schools in the nation excelling in performing arts. It was one of two high schools to receive this award. On March 21, 2005, the school performed and displayed aspects of its arts and performances programs on one of the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stages.

BRMHS is one of the few high schools in the nation to offer two student run radio stations on campus. The original station, WBRH, was joined in 1997 by KBRH. They are both non-profit radio stations and are run with the financial support of the listening community. They publicly broadcast jazz on WBRH 90.3 FM, and classic R&B and local music on KBRH 1260 AM.

Awards

• 1982 Redbook Magazine - Top 100 High Schools in America
• 1983 Blue Ribbon School - U.S. Dept of Education
• 2003 Blue Ribbon School - U.S. Dept of Education
• 2004 Creative School Ticket of Excellence
• 2004 Louisiana Dept of Education - Five Star School of Academic Excellence
• 2004 Kennedy Center School of Distinction Creative Ticket Award
• 2005 Magnet Schools of America - Distinction Award
• 2005 Louisiana Dept of Education - Five Star School of Academic Excellence
• 2006 Magnet Schools of America - Distinction Award
• 2006 Louisiana Dept of Education - Five Star School of Academic Excellence
• 2006 Siemens Award for Advanced Placement
• 2006 Magnet Schools of America. Magnet School of Distinction
• 2007 Louisiana Dept of Education - Five Star School of Academic Excellence
• 2007 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics & Science Teaching
• 2008 U.S. News & World Report. Best High Schools, Silver Designation
• 2008 Magnet Schools of America - Distinction Award
• 2009 U.S. News & World Report. Best High Schools, Silver Designation
• 2010 National Magnet Schools of America - Magnet school Principal of the year
• 2010 National Magnet Schools of America - Excellence Award
• 2010 U.S. News & World Report. Best High Schools, Silver Designation
• 2011 Newsweek. #122 Ranked High School in the US (3rd highest SAT average amongst 500 schools)