Denton High School initially opened its entryways in 1884 and was one of the first free government funded school structures in Denton County. The current school opened in 1957 and has seen a few augmentations and redesigns, with the latest in 2010. The school imparts its name to the City of Denton, which is likewise the province seat.
Denton High offers the International Baccalaureate program, an exceedingly acclaimed educational module which urges and impacts learners to approach training through a worldwide degree. DHS is only one of a handful of schools in North Texas that permits understudies the chance to graduate with an IB certificate and addition up to 24 credit hours to Texas universities and colleges.
People at DHS additionally have the chance to take an assortment of scholastic courses, including Advanced Placement, Pre-AP classes and double credit school courses. Likewise, Denton High has delivered the most National Merit Scholars in the school area over the past decade. Recent DHS graduates have happened to such prestigious scholastic organizations as: Dartmouth College, Amherst College, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&m University, the University of Oklahoma and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
There is a mixed bag of additional curricular clubs too with something for each understudy’s investment. Learners can look over band, choir, symbolization, ROTC, and FFA and in addition extraordinary offerings like the bilingual multicultural club, which concentrates on uniting the different societies and foundations of DHS understudies, and SAAVY, which helps adolescents settle on positive decisions throughout and after secondary school.
Denton High School, in organization with the home and group, is devoted to the improvement of educated, caring people who earnestly and morally help the advancement of our reality.
By giving testing and instructive encounters that support collaboration, inventiveness and intercultural comprehension, DHS means to make deep rooted learners who grasp the assorted qualities of others.
DHS games have truly been among the top projects in the state with the young men ball group named one of the main 10 record-breaking projects by Texpreps Basketball and additionally two state titles in young ladies soccer and late playoff appearances in baseball, volleyball and young ladies track.