Nicholas County High School

Nicholas County High School is a high school located in Summersville, West Virginia.[8] The mascot for NCHS is the grizzly bear, and its school colors are Old Gold and Old Navy. Due to steady decline in student enrollment, the school currently ranks as a AA school down from a AAA.[9]

This article is about the current Nicholas County High School. For the previous National Register-listed building, see Old Main (Nicholas County High School).
Nicholas County High School
Address
30 Grizzly Road

Summersville
,
West Virginia
26651

United States
Information
School typePublic Secondary
Established1914[1]
School districtNicholas County Schools
SuperintendentDonna Burge-Tetrick[2]
PrincipalKendra Rapp[3]
Teaching staff44.00 (FTE)[4]
Grades9–12
Enrollment668 (2018–19)[4]
Student to teacher ratio15.18[4]
Color(s)Old Gold and Navy[5]
   
NicknameGrizzlies[6]
RivalRichwood High School
Newspaperthe Grizzly Gazette[7] (formerly "the Gold and Blue Record")
Yearbookthe Nichlosean

As a result of flood damage to Richwood High School in June 2016, plans were made to consolidate RHS with NCHS on a new campus.[10] The planned consolidation, however, was rejected by the West Virginia Board of Education on June 13, 2017.[11] On June 2, 2020, the Nicholas County Board of Education broke ground on a new campus for NCHS and Summersville Middle School (which was destroyed in the flood of 2016 and had to be placed in a modular setting) at Glade Creek. The current NCHS campus will be remodeled to house Summersville Elementary School.[12]

In 2008 Nicholas County High School was listed in the top 10% of high schools in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. NCHS was one of the few schools to be included on the list, and the only school in the Nicholas County School System. In 2023, Nicholas County High School is ranked 87th within West Virginia.[13]

Extracurriculars

Nicholas County's Future Problem Solvers Team has placed 12th in the world and won two first place titles and one second place title at the 2013 West Virginia FBLA Conference.

Sports

NCHS placed 16th in the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission Football Tournament in 2007, 12th place in 2008, 8th in 2009, and 9th in 2012, as well as 8th in the WVSSAC Cheerleading Tournament in 2007.

Sports offered at NCHS are:

Marching band

The Nicholas County High School Marching Grizzlies have placed in many different marching band competitions, including Black Walnut Festival and Tri-State. At ratings festival, they received three scores of 1, which is the highest a band can score. The band was nominated to participate in the 2010 National Independence Day Parade.

The band performed at the 2014 Poca Band Invitational where they were the 1st Runner Up for Grand Champion in Marching for Class C bands; they competed against 3 other bands in their class. Other 2014 competitions which the band participated in were Ripley and Black Walnut.

The current director is Roger Lee Akers, who has served Nicholas County High School since 2004.

The marching band has also won awards in marching, auxiliary, drumline, drum major, and overall band.

References
  1. ncnchs.ss8.sharpschool.com
  2. "Board Members".
  3. "Staff Directory".
  4. "NICHOLAS COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  5. https://www.wvssac.org/directory/?school-num=0087&class=aaa&program=1&cache=12740181
  6. https://www.wvssac.org/directory/?school-num=0087&class=aaa&program=1&cache=12740181
  7. nchs.news
  8. "Municipal Election Information | Summersville, West Virginia". Retrieved 2022-10-27.
  9. http://wvmetronews.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/media-announcement-classification.pdf?x63433
  10. Quinn, Ryan (March 7, 2017). "Nicholas board approves school consolidation plan". Charleston Gazette-Mail. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
  11. Hodousek, Carrie (June 13, 2017). "State BOE rejects Nicholas County school consolidation plan". MetroNews. Retrieved June 28, 2017.
  12. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nicholas-county-schools-hold-groundbreaking-for-new-schools/ar-BB14TonF
  13. "Nicholas County High School". US News.

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