Barbers Hill High School is a school based in Mont Belvieu, Texas, and is classified as a 6A school by the UIL. It is part of the Barbers Hill Independent School District located in western Chambers County. For the 2021-2022 school year, the school was given an "A" by the Texas Education Agency.
Athletics The Barbers Hill Eagles compete in the following sports:The Athletics Department
Baseball Basketball Cross Country Football Golf Soccer Softball Swimming and Diving Tennis Track and Field Volleyball
State Champions Baseball 2021(5A) Softball 2021(5A), 2026(5A/D1) FootballLone Star Football Network 1971(1A)^ 1976(1A) ^Co-Champion with Sonora High School Girls BasketballUIL Girls Basketball Archives 1982(3A), 1983(3A), 1997(3A) Boys TrackUIL Boys Track Archives 1935(All), 1956(B) Individual 2014 World Association of Bencher and Deadlifters
Music Barbers Hill High School is the home of the award-winning Soaring Eagle Marching Band. In the 2010 and 2011 marching seasons, the band received straight 1's for a first division rating at the UIL Region Marching Band Competition. The Soaring Eagle Marching Band was one of only 2 bands (the other being the Galena Park High School marching band) to receive this rating at the contest. In 2011 the Soaring Eagle Marching Band went on to the regional marching contest. In 2013, the Soaring Eagle Marching Band and 3 other schools in Area 4A went on to play at state in San Antonio. In the spring, the SEMB divides into 3 concert bands, the Barbers Hill High School Wind Ensemble (the premier performing group in the district), the BHHS Symphonic Band (middle performing group), and the BHHS Concert Band.
State Champions State Wind Ensemble:UIL State Wind Ensemble Contest Champions 1991(3A) State Marching Band 2025 (5a) State Marching Band 2026 (5a)
Drama & Theatre
State Champions One Act PlayUIL One Act Play State Champions 1996 (3A) "Strider" 1999 (3A) "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" 2003 (3A) "Strider" 2010 (4A) "The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail"
Dress code controversy In January 2020, a student was suspended and informed that he would be forbidden from attending graduation due to the length of his dreadlocks. However, the student's family and political activists have asserted that the action taken against him was discriminatory. Other students of the high school also spoke out against the policy, describing it as gender discrimination, since girls are allowed to have long hair, while boys are not. A federal judge ruled that the district’s hair policy was discriminatory.
On 31 August 2023, another student was suspended over his dreadlocks. His family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s governor and attorney general, alleging they failed to enforce a new law outlawing discrimination based on hairstyles. Texas passed the CROWN Act on May 27, 2023, and the law took effect on 1 September 2023.
Notable alumni Carl Brazell (1935), NFL running back Buddy Tinsley (1943), professional football player and Canadian Football Hall of Famer Charli Collier (2018), WNBA player, 1st overall pick in the 2021 WNBA draft Cam Cauley (2021), Infielder in the Texas Rangers organization
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