Carbon High having a banner year in both numbers and spirit

    Carbon High School is doing a lot of good things this fall, and as Thanksgiving approaches Principal Bruce Bean is looking forward to the holidays and how the students think of others during the season.
    “We are doing some food drives as we have in the past,” said Bean.  “We had an activity called Peach Fuzz Volleyball for boys like we do Powder Puff Football for the girls recently. We used that to kick off our food drive this year and our Carbon Christmas which is a remarkable thing we do annually. We had more cans of food donated for that volleyball game than we had the entire food drive last year.”
    Bean said school spirit this year is tremendous, citing the remarkable size of the Homecoming parade on Price’s Main Street and other things that have been going on on the campus.
    “We had one of the best homecoming weeks we have ever had since I have been around,” he stated. “There has been a lot of school spirit this year.”
    That spirit has leaked over into other things going on at the school. But school of course is about academics and Carbon has had a lot to celebrate this fall with the release of school grades and SAGE scores.
    “We had a celebration about our scores from the state like all the schools in the district did on October 30,” he said.  “The scores were really good. During that event we let the kids know how Carbon High fits in the realm of the 144 high schools in the state. We looked at it and we were in the top 15 percent of all those with our scores and college readiness. I told the kids they are not settling for just anything by going to the schools here in Carbon County.”
    Despite what seems a downturn in the economy in the area and seemingly people moving away because of economic reasons, Bean said the numbers of students at Carbon High continues to increase every year.
    “Our enrollment is actually increasing,” said Bean.  “Presently we have 904 students. While that is really great, where to put them is a becoming a dilemma. We have been bursting at the seams as it is and we also have two portable classrooms. With that in mind statistics show that we are supposed to have over 1000 students in a couple of years.”
    Bean says students are moving into the area from as close as Emery County, but also from other areas such as Vernal and other places in the state.
    Even with the crowded halls he said there is a very good feel at Carbon High this year and it will continue as students and teachers work hard on academics and to do the right things in the community.
     “We are pleased with what we are doing, we are pleased with the direction our school  is headed academically and we are continually working at the school to make things even better,” Bean concluded.