Concord High School | |
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Motto | Scientia, Concordia, Sapientia Knowledge, Harmony and Wisdom [1] |
Established | 1846 |
Type | Public High School |
Affiliation | Concord School District |
Principal | Eugene Connolly [1] |
Faculty | 121[2] |
Students | 1937[2] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Location | Concord, New Hampshire, USA |
Campus | Suburban |
Colors | Crimson and White |
Athletics | Crimson Tide |
Mascot | Tidey the Duck |
Yearbook | The Crimson [3] |
Newspaper | The Crimson Review [3] |
Website | chs.concordnhschools.net |
High School, completed in 1890, as it appeared in 1907 |
Concord High School is a high school in Concord, New Hampshire in the United States.
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Concord's first public high school was established in 1846. The original building was the building on the corner of State and School Streets. A new school house was built in 1862, which stood until April 1888, when it burned down during a fire started by a chemistry experiment. For the next two years, students took their classes in City Hall. A new high school was built on the same lot, completed and dedicated in September 1890. In 1907, yet another Concord High School, designed to accommodate 500 students, was built on Spring Street in the building which is now Kimball School. The current high school was built in 1927 on Warren Street, with new wings added in 1960 and 1996.
Some of the features that Concord High currently has are a new media center (library), student center (cafeteria), performing arts area and four commons areas, each with its own administrative and student community where student lockers are located. Concord TV, the local Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable tv station for Concord, is currently located in Concord High.[4]
The Concord Crimson Tide are an affiliate of the NHIAA. They compete in the Class L or Div. I league. The current Athletic Director is Steve Mello and the Athletic Trainer for the Tide is Kelly Noel.[5]
As the major school of the capital of New Hampshire, Concord High has seen a great amount of attention by presidential hopefuls. Barack Obama, on the eve of the New Hampshire Primary 2008, held a notably large rally at the school. The school was visited by every major and most of the minor primary hopefuls in 2008. In 2004, it received visits by all the Democratic hopefuls except Al Sharpton and Dick Gephardt.
At Concord High's first dance of the 2006-2007 school year, Concord High drew local media attention when administration ejected from a dance about a dozen students for grinding, a style of dancing that the administration deemed overtly sexual for a school function. In protest of this, about 150 other students walked out of the dance.[6] The administration met with student body leaders to try to reach an agreement. They were not able to, and for the first time in the school's history, the homecoming dance was postponed, and every other dance that year was canceled. An exception was made for the senior prom, however.