Wayne High School (West Virginia)

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Wayne High School is located in Wayne, West Virginia on a 200-acre woodland property. The campus of thirteen single-story masonry buildings is shared with Wayne Middle School. A vocational wing was opened in the 1998-99 school year to expand curriculum offerings. Student population is about 650 as of 2006.

Wayne High School was organized in 1921 and serves 62% of the land area of the county, a distance of approximately forty miles north to south. The present site opened in 1967. About 30% of all secondary school students in Wayne County attend Wayne High School. All students come to the campus by bus, with the longest bus route extending thirty miles.

The number of single parent or no parent homes approaches the national average. The attendance rate is 93%. 46% of students take part in free and reduced lunch programs. 13% are full range special education pupils. Less than 50% continue to a post-secondary school.

There are 42 faculty, two full-time counselors, and one library/media specialist and computer network administrator.