Hida High School

Hida High School (斐太高校), officially Gifu Prefectural Hida High School (岐阜県立斐太高等学校), is a prefectural high school in Takayama,,. It was used as model for fictional Kamiyama High School, main setting of Classic Literature Club series and Hyouka.

Summary
Hida High School was founded on May 17, 1886. It's often nicknamed as Hikou (斐高).

History

 * 1886 – Takayama Junior High School (岐阜県斐太尋常中学) was established, later renamed to Hida School (斐太学校).
 * 1888 – School was renamed to Gifu Prefecture Hida Common Junior High School (岐阜県斐太尋常中学).
 * 1899 – School was renamed to Gifu Prefecture Hida Junior High School (岐阜県斐太中学). School badges were adopted.
 * 1908 – School song was adopted.
 * 1948 – School was merged with correspondence education department with raise of school's status up to high school, and it was renamed to Gifu Prefectural Hida High School.
 * 1956, 29 July – Hida High School and Gifu Prefectural Takayama High School both suffered from arson.
 * 1986 – the centenary of school's establishment.
 * 2003 – school was designated as National Center for University Admissions hall, being first in Hida district.
 * 2005 – telecommunication systems course was transferred to Gifu Prefectural Hida-Takayama High School.

School events

 * Excursions and field trips – first-year and third-year students go to excursions, while second-year students go to a field trip, most often to and.
 * Dragonfly Festival (蜻蛉祭) – cultural festival of Hida High, which takes place in June. Each class hold stage and exhibition presentations, and cultural club activities are also present. It's open to the public. Hida High's cultural festival was given its name, Dragonfly Festival, in 1992.
 * Athletic Festival – it takes place in September. Students divide to three teams ("red", "blue" and "yellow") and compete with each other.
 * Dragonfly Forest (蜻蛉の森)
 * Hakusen nagashi (白線流し) — a separate event held simultaneously with the graduation ceremony. It symbolizes friendship vow of graduates before they leave. Current students stand on one side of river across the school, and graduates stand on the other side of the river toward the school. The white straps from boy's school caps and the ties of the girl's sailor suits are tied together to make a "white line" between them, and "singing out" on the river surface while singing a song near Daihachiga river that flows in front of the school. In 1996, a television drama based on this event was aired.

Clubs
Hida High School has many athletic and cultural clubs.

Athletic clubs:
 * Track-and-Field Club
 * Soccer Club
 * Soft Tennis Club
 * Handball Club
 * Basketball Club
 * Volleyball Club
 * Badminton Club
 * Table Tennis Club
 * Judo Club
 * Kendo Club
 * Archery Club
 * Baseball Club

Cultural clubs:
 * Science Club
 * Astronomy Club
 * Art Club
 * Tea Ceremony Club
 * Flower Arrangement Club
 * Literary Club
 * Interchange Club
 * Wind Music Club
 * Drama Club
 * Broadcasting Club
 * Calligraphy Club
 * Photography Club
 * Light Music Club

Notable alumni

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 * , filmmaker and screenwriter
 * , mathematician and artist
 * , pop songwriter and singer
 * , information scientist, 18th president of
 * , politician of the, a member of the in the
 * Honobu Yonezawa, writer