Fort Benton High School
# Fort Benton High School

Fort Benton High School is a high school in Fort Benton, Montana.

The district serves students living in Fort Benton, Loma, and Carter, with total population nearing 2,000 people. The sports teams are called the Mighty Longhorns.

## About the school

The total 2010-2011 enrollment for grades kindergarten through 12th grade was 553 students.

The high school building was built in 1943, after a fire destroyed the original building that was built in the summer of 1920.

The Fort Benton School district has had 5 separate building with the Original building built 1856 and then the separate building after the fire was built in 1920 the Elementary and High School that housed Chouteau County High School and then the current Elementary and High School that houses Fort Benton High School built in 1963.

## Athletics

The Fort Benton Longhorns have had to move with the economy with what District, Division, and Classification they are placed in. Being one of the original founding schools in the MHSA, Classifications:

* Class AA 1891-1931
* Class A 1932-1977
* Class B 1978-1982
* Class A 1983-1988
* Class B 1989-2008
* Class C 2009-Current
* Central A
* Northern A
* Northeast B
* Northern B
* Southern B
* South/Central B
* Northern C
* District 1B
* District 6B
* District 7C/8C
* District 9C

### Football

The Longhorn Football team holds the longest running state playoff record out of all Class A' B' and C' Schools 20 state playoff shows from the Longhorns.

* State Championships: 2002,
* State Runner-Up: 2003, 2004

### Volleyball

Fort Benton Volleyball

* State Champions:
* State Place:
* Division Champions: 2019, 2010, 1993, 1992
* Division Place: 4th-2009, 4th-2008, 3rd-2007
* District Champions: 1993, 1992, 1991
* District Place: 2nd-2019 3rd-2010 2nd-2009, 4th-2008, 3rd-2007, 2nd-2006

### Boys' Basketball

State Champions: 1953, 1952, 1951 State Place: 3rd/4th-2020 3rd-1973, 2nd-1972, 2nd-1956, 2nd-1955, 2nd-1954, 2nd-1950 Division Champions: 2020, 1973, 1972, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950 Division Place: 4th-2006 District Champions: 2020, 2010, 2006, District Place: 2nd-2019 3rd-2018, 3rd-2009, 4th-2008, 2nd-2007, 2nd-1996, 2nd-1992, 2nd-1991,

### Girls' Basketball

State Place: 3rd-2003, 2nd-2000 Division Champions: 2002, 2000 Division Place: 3rd-2020 3rd-2017, 2nd-2003, 2nd-1999, 3rd-1998 District Champions: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2014, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 District Place: 2nd-2017, 4th-2010, 4th-2009, 3rd-2007, 2nd-1998

### Wrestling

State Championships: 2013

### Boys' and Girls' Track

Boys' State Championships: 2003, 2001, 1987, 1986, 1985 Boys' Divisional Championships: 2019 Boys' District Championships: 2019 Girls' State Championships: 2017, 1997, 1983, 1982 Girls' State Place: 3rd-2019 2nd-2018 Girls' Divisional Championships: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 Girls' District Championships: 2019, 2018, 2017

### Golf

Boys' State Championships: 2011, 2010, 2000 Girls' State Championships: 2011, 2010, 1997, 1996, 1994, 1993, 1992

### Tennis

State Champions: State Runner-up: 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 Divisional Champions: Many list coming soon

### Gymnastics

Program Retired State Championships: 1973 State Runner-ups: 1972 1974 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980

## Activities

* Cheerleading
* B Club - creates banners supporting the classes and sports teams that are displayed in the gymnasium. They are also responsible for creating locker signs for participants in athletics and activities.
* National Honor Society
* Band - Pep band plays at almost all FBHS athletic events
* Choir
* Speech and Drama - Divisional Championships: 2014, 2013, State Championships: 2010, 1953
* Newspaper/Annual -This group is responsible for the production and quality of the Annual yearbook.

## Chouteau County High School

Fort Benton High School was originally named back in 1891 when the first building was built Chouteau County High School which served all towns in Chouteau County which the high school first had about 200 students and then after the first building burnt to the ground in 1920 and the new building currently housing the high school was built the school split into 4 high schools Highwood, Geraldine, Big Sandy, and Fort Benton.

Currently Fort Benton has two buildings. Big Sandy two, Highwood one, and Geraldine has one.

