Charlottesville High School

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Charlottesville High School
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Address
Charlottesville High School
1400 Melbourne Road

Charlottesville
,
VA
22901

United States
Coordinates 38°3′8″N78°28′34″W / 38.05222°N 78.47611°W / 38.05222; -78.47611
Information
MottoEmbrace Diversity and Inspire Dreams[ citation needed ]
Opened1974
School district Charlottesville City Schools
NCES District ID5100780 [1]
SuperintendentRoyal A. Gurley
CEEB code 470423
NCES School ID510078000273 [1]
PrincipalDr. Justin Malone
Teaching staff118.50 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Grades9-12 [1]
Enrolment1,359 (2022-23) [1]
Student to teacher ratio11.47 [1]
Color(s)   Orange and black
Athletics conference Jefferson District
AA Region II
Virginia High School League
SportsBaseball, basketball (boys and girls), competition cheerleading, cross country (boys and girls), field hockey, football, golf (boys and girls), indoor track (boys and girls), lacrosse (boys and girls), outdoor track and field (boys and girls), sideline cheerleading, soccer (boys and girls), softball, swimming and diving (boys and girls), tennis (boys and girls), volleyball (girls), wrestling [2]
MascotBlack Knight
Newspaper The Knight Time Review
YearbookCHS Chain
Website https://chs.charlottesvilleschools.org

Charlottesville High School is a public high school in the independent city of Charlottesville, Virginia, serving students from 9th to 12th grade. It is a part of Charlottesville City Schools.

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It is the second largest high school in the region,[ citation needed ] with a student population of approximately 1,360. The school grounds include a memorial garden, a running track, ballfields, landscaped courtyards and the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center (or "MLK PAC"). Across Melbourne Road lies Theodose Stadium, which doubles as the field hockey stadium during the fall, and soccer and lacrosse stadium during the Spring season.

University Gardens, a University of Virginia family housing unit, is zoned to Charlottesville High School. [3] [4] [5]

History

Charlottesville High School was founded by John Cunningham in 1904 and was built in 1974 because the Lane High School building had become too small to accommodate all students within the city limits. Lane High school saw its last graduating class in June 1974. CHS opened its doors in September 1974. The new school inherited their school colors (black & orange) as well as their mascot (the Black Knight) from the former high school. Lane High School was never demolished and is now the Albemarle County office building. Charlottesville High School's sports complex was still located on the grounds of the Lane High School building until the 1980s, when it was moved to a site across the street from CHS. During the last 20 years of the 20th century, CHS has had some major additions including a new gym facility and a large auditorium.

Renovations started in 2004, lasting two years, and included a fresh coat of paint[ citation needed ], updated class rooms, larger and modern restroom facilities, updated ventilation systems, new lockers[ citation needed ], and new, asbestos-free floor tile.

Athletics

CHS has many athletic programs, ranging from football to tennis, track and field to field hockey. The boys soccer team won a state championship in 2004 against Jefferson Forest High School. [6] The Charlottesville High School boys soccer team also won the state championships in 2019. CHS Debate Public Forum won the Virginia State Championship in 2022 as well as 2023 proving that they are a force to be reckoned with. [7] CHS also led the golf world of Virginia when CHS Golf won the 2023 VHSL Golf State Championship. [8]

Performing arts

In 1984, the 1,276-seat Performing Arts Center of Charlottesville (PAC) was built to address both the shortage of auditorium space for the high school as well as the area's need for a large venue to accommodate professional touring performances, such as the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Russian Ballet, and the Charlottesville performance of A Prairie Home Companion . In the fall of 2005, Charlottesville City Council decided to rechristen the Performing Arts Center of Charlottesville as "The Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center of Charlottesville" (MLK PAC), in order to honor the civil rights activist. [9] Sixty dates during the school year are reserved for school-sponsored events such as assemblies and the school's performing arts program.

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  2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 18 November 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "University Garden Area Archived September 23, 2016, at the Wayback Machine ." University of Virginia. Retrieved on 7 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Map courtesy of City of Charlottesville Neighborhood Development Services March 2011 Archived January 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine ." Charlottesville City Schools. Retrieved on 7 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "Zones by Street Archived January 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine ." Charlottesville City Schools. Retrieved on 7 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "VHSL Record Book" (PDF). ballcharts.com. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  7. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/tabroom-files/tourns/26801/results/37136/AwardsScriptandExplanationofRanks-VHSLStateDebate2023.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  8. ↑ "Charlottesville golfer Preston Burton wins VHSL Class 3 state championship". 11 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Jaquith, Waldo. "School Boards Approves Naming CPAC After MLK". cvillenews.com.
  10. ↑ Archived 28 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ "At long last, CHS grad Wilson gets his Hall pass | Daily Progress". Archived from the original on 28 July 2010.
  12. ↑ Mora, Christina (6 October 2008). "Boyd Tinsley Donates to CHS Orchestra, Tennis and Academics". NBC 29. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
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