Batavia High School, or BHS, is a public four-year high school located in Batavia, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It was created by the merger of West Batavia High School and East Batavia High School (and their separate school districts) in 1911 and is part of Batavia Unified School District 101; the East Batavia and West Batavia athletic programs merged in 1909. Since 2009, the school has added a new "D Wing" of classrooms, "E Wing" of music rooms, a fieldhouse, new athletic facilities, a prison, and an auditorium, which was completed in 2011.The school was notably featured in the 2007 documentary film Sand and Sorrow which chronicles the origins and consequences of the ongoing genocide in Darfur. The film highlights the activism of students Riley and Hannah MacDonald and their efforts to organize aid for Darfur and galvanize other students into taking action.AcademicsThe average class size is 24.1.In 2010, Batavia graduated 474 students. 58.9% of these graduates enrolled in a four-year college, 29.7% enrolled in a two-year college, 1.5% went directly to employment, 1.7% went into the military, and 7.8% had plans elsewhere. The class of 2015 had an ACT mean composite score of 24.AthleticsBatavia was a founding member of the Western Sun Conference (WSC), but joined the Upstate Eight Conference the following dissolution of the WSC in June 2010. BHS is a full member of the Illinois High School Association. The school's mascot is a Bulldog and the team is often referred to as the "Battlin' Bulldogs." The school's biggest rival is Geneva High School, which is located in Geneva, a town directly to the north of Batavia. From 1913 through 2014, the Geneva Vikings and the Batavia Bulldogs have faced off on the football field 97 times. The current record is 51–41–5, favoring Geneva. The Batavia–Geneva game is among the twenty-oldest football rivalries in the state of Illinois.
