Wilson High School (South Carolina)

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Wilson High School
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Wilson High School (South Carolina)
1411 Old Marion Highway

Florence, South Carolina
29506

United States
Coordinates 34°13′12″N79°43′51″W / 34.2198772°N 79.7308945°W / 34.2198772; -79.7308945
Information
School type Public
Founded1866(158 years ago) (1866)
PrincipalEric Robinson
Teaching staff90.50 (on an FTE basis) [1]
Enrollment1,252 (2021–22) [1]
Student to teacher ratio13.83 [1]
Color(s)Royal purple and gold
  
MascotTiger
NewspaperThe Purple and Gold [2]
Website www.f1s.org/wilson

Wilson High School is one of three high schools in Florence Public School District One in Florence, South Carolina, United States. It is the only high school in Florence County that offers the International Baccalaureate diploma.

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History

Wilson School was Florence's first public school. It was opened in 1866 by the Freedmen’s Bureau as a private school for Black children, and became a public school when South Carolina’s system of free public schools was established in 1868. An early principal of what was then known as the Colored Graded School was the Methodist minister Joshua E. Wilson, and the current school is likely named for him. In 1906 the wooden-frame building was demolished, and a new Wilson High School was built on Athens Street, away from downtown in a black residential neighborhood. The school moved to North Irby Street in 1956 and to its current location on Old Marion Highway in 1982. [3]

Academics

Wilson's We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution debate team won the annual state competition in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010.

Wilson has won the Pee Dee Regional Academic Challenge AAA/AAAA championship eleven out of the past twelve years,[ when? ] and won the 2010 State Championship.

Wilson has the only Florence chapter of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP).

Athletics

Wilson competes in the AAAA classification of the South Carolina High School League and is located in Lower State, Region VI with Myrtle Beach High School, North Myrtle Beach High School, Hartsville High school, West Florence High School, and South Florence High School.

In 2002, the varsity baseball team won the AAA state championship. The boys' basketball and varsity football teams won AAA state championships in 2007.

The boys' basketball team won AAAA state championship in 2022.

Notable alumni

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References

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  2. ↑ The Purple and Gold
  3. ↑ "South Carolina Education - Florence County". Carolina.com. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 "Hall of Fame - Wilson High School Alumni Association". www.wilsonhighalumni.com. Archived from the original on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
  5. ↑ "Justin Durant". databaseFootball.com. Archived from the original on July 24, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2012.
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