Concord High School (North Carolina)
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| Name |
Concord High School | |
| City | ||
| Year Opened |
1924 | |
| Principal |
Carla B. Black | |
| Community |
Suburban | |
| Type |
Public Secondary | |
| Grades |
9 to 12 | |
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| Enrollment |
approx. 1,200 (05-06) | |
| Mascot |
Spiders | |
| Colors |
Black and gold | |
| Newspaper |
The Weavings | |
| Distinctions |
unknown | |
| Website | ||
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Concord High School is a comprehensive public high school in Concord, North Carolina. Open since 1924, it is the oldest high school in Cabarrus County. It became a part of Cabarrus County Schools in 1983 when Concord City Schools merged with the county school system.
History
CHS opened in 1924 in downtown Concord. The building it was housed in is now the site of the Glenn Alternative Center for Cabarrus County Schools. A fire partially destroyed the building in 1937 and parts of the school had to be totally rebuilt. Concord moved to its current location north of downtown in 1967. Two major additions have been made to that building in the nearly four decades since.
Athletics
Concord's athletics teams are known as the Spiders. The school is a AAA member of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association and competes in the South Piedmont Conference (SPC). The school sponsors interscholastic football, volleyball, tennis (boys and girls), cross country (boys and girls), basketball (boys and girls), wrestling, swimming (boys and girls), baseball, softball, golf, track and field (boys and girls), and soccer (boys and girls).
Concord's football team is the most well-known Spider athletic program in the area, partially due to its long-standing 75+ year rivalry with A.L. Brown High School in neighboring Kannapolis. The football team won the AAA state championship in football in 2004. Concord's basketball team has also found recent success, finishing as the runners-up in the 2006 AAA state basketball tournament after losing 79-75 to Greensboro Dudley.
Principals
(Since merger with Cabarrus County Schools in 1983)
- Charles E. Rimer (1969-1986)
- Alan Voigt (1986-1988)
- Elbert Thomas (1988-1995)
- Chuck Borders (1995-1996)
- Sonny Pruette (1996-2003)
- Bill Kinsey (2003-2005)
- Carla B. Black (2005- )