Borah High School is a senior high school located in Boise, Idaho, comprised of grades 10-12.

The school opened in the fall of 1958 at the base of the second Boise bench, on what would become Cassia Street. Borah was the second high school in the Boise School District. It was preceded by Boise High School in 1902, and followed by Capital High School in 1966 and Timberline High School (converted from Les Bois Junior High) in 1999.

As of April 24, 2005, the school enrollment stands at 1,538. Of those, 500 students are seniors, 498 are juniors, and 540 are sophomores. ^* 55% of the school's graduating seniors enrolled in post-secondary education.

Borah students outperformed the national average in all categories of the 2003-04 ACT & SAT tests. The school's average GPA is 2.9.

The school sits on a sprawling campus, with five permanent buildings, connected by an outdoor "breezeway". The original campus featured three structures:

• The main classroom building, with a designated hall for each of the three grade levels, cafeteria, library, main office, auditorium, and other assorted features;
• The "Math Hall" building, housing mathematics classes and industrial arts shops;
• The "Old Gym," containing the original gym, locker rooms, weight rooms, gymnastics/wrestling room, and athletic department offices. It also included rooms used for band, orchestra, choir, and publications (newspaper & yearbook).

In 1996, a larger gymnasium was added to the campus. It is commonly known as the "New Gym."

In 1999 a larger auditorium was constructed on the west end of the campus.

On-campus athletic facilities include Bill Wigle Field (past home to the Boise A's (1976) and Boise Hawks(1987-88) minor league baseball teams), an indoor batting cage, a synthetic-rubber 400 meter running track, and several fields used for athletic practices, physical education classes, and other extra-curricular activities. Bill Wigle Field is named for the longtime varsity baseball coach who won state championships in 1976 & 1981, and stepped down following the 1982 season.

Borah's varsity football team does not play on campus, rather at Bronco Stadium on the campus of Boise State University, three miles to the east.

The Borah mascot is the lion, and the school's slogan is "The Lions of Idaho," a play on the nickname of namesake William E. Borah, a U.S. Senator from 1907-1940. Borah was known in the Senate as the "Lion of Idaho" for his outspoken stance on a variety of issues. During the school's first year (1958-1959), the Boise daily newspaper The Idaho Statesman often referred to the Borah's athletic teams as the "Senators." A 1999 school newspaper article noted that students did not like the unofficial nickname, and later adopted the lion as the official mascot. The school colors are green & gold.

The school's yearbook is The Safari and its monthly student newspaper is The Senator.

External links

• Borah High School
• Borah H.S. photo circa 1965
• Borah H.S. Class of 1968 class web site

High schools in Idaho