Adair County High School (Columbia, Kentucky)

Adair County High School is a U.S. high school (grades 9 to 12) in the small town of Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky. It is the county's only high school.

In 2005, the school had some 746 students and 45 teachers, and was eligible for Title One support. 96% of the students were white, and the remainder included African-American, Middle Eastern and Chinese students.

The FFA is the largest school club. It has won over one hundred state and national awards. Two students also traveled internationally upon winning awards. The club is part of the Agriculture program that supports itself on the tobacco and greenhouse crops. In 2009 a large cattle barn was built at no expense to the school system.

The school has a highly rated band program. The marching band's record boasts 20 KMEA State Championships, 25 appearances in state finals sine the inception of the Kentucky State Marching Band Championships in 1986. The current band has 90-100 members and is directed by Tom Case with assistant Johnathon Holmes.

The ACHS Academic Team placed top Eight in the Kentucky Association for Academic Competition's (KAAC) 2009 state finals. They have been to the National Academic Quiz Tournaments' nationals competition twice. Once in 2008, and then again in 2010. In 2010, the team placed 7th in the nation. This feat was even more impressive because ACHS was the only public high school to place in the top ten at the prestigious event.

The ACHS Future Problem Solving team has had frequent top ten finishes at the KAAC state finals competition, and has gone on to the Future Problem Solving Program International Conference several times during the last few years. In 2009, the team boasted a 4th place FPS Middle Division finish at the International Conference.

The school also has two cheerleading squads. The blue squad came away from the 2008 CANAM International Cheerleading Competition in Myrtle Beach, SC, with the top honor given, the American Cheerleader Editor's Choice Award.

ACHS had an outstanding German program from 1997-2000 under the instruction of Mr. Erwin Heinrich Lepiarczyk II. Two pupils earned first place honors in the 1999 state German speaking competition sponsored by the Kentucky Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

External links

• Adair County High School website