Northwood High School (North Carolina)

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Northwood High School is located in the small country town of Pittsboro, North Carolina. Their mascot is the Charger. The school colors are gold and green.(1) It is a member of the Mid State 2A Conference. It currently serves around 1,024 students, about 300 students over capacity.

Northwood High School opened in time for the 1972-1973 school year to replace the older Pittsboro High School, which is now the headquarters of Chatham County Schools.

1 Athletics
2 Clubs [1]
3 Mission statement
4 News
5 External links

[edit] Athletics

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The school's Ultimate Frisbee team took first in state during their 2006-2007 season.

Northwood currently provides the following JV and Varsity sports: + The school's Ultimate Frisbee team took first in state during their 2006-2007 season. - Fall:

Football
Women's Volleyball
Men's and Women's Cross-Country
Men's Soccer

Winter:

Men's and Women's Basketball
Men's and Women's Indoor Track
Wrestling

Spring:

Men's Tennis
Women's Soccer
Men's and Women's Track
Baseball
Softball

Northwood also has a year-round swim team, which has a tradition of being small, possessing one member during the 2006-2007 school year.

[edit] Clubs [1]

Northwood currently has around 35 clubs, such as FCCLA, DECA, FFA, weight-lifting, and the newly formed outdoor club. The school's Ultimate Frisbee team took 1st in state during their 2006-2007 season, defeating Cardinal Gibbons High School.

Northwood's branch of FCCLA are renowned for their excellence in Parliamentary Procedure competitions. A team of eight females, all class of 2008 students, have won three state and national championships since 2004, travelling to San Diego, Nashville, and Anaheim.

[edit] Mission statement

"To graduate students who are productive members of a democratic society."

[edit] News

The school made state headlines for a senior prank in June 2007. A massive water balloon fight across the school led to forty students being forced to do twenty hours of community service before they could receive their high school diplomas.[2]