Bluffton High School is a

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within the

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, located in Bluffton,

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, United States. Opened in 2004 as a result of new growth and development, the high school serves students in the mainland areas of southern Beaufort County, including Bluffton, Pritchardville, and Okatie. It shares a larger K–12 campus with H.E. McCracken Middle School and Bluffton Elementary School. The school was honored in 2012 and 2013 by ''

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'' High School

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as one of "America's Most Challenging High Schools".

Academics

Student take eight classes a year on an A/B block schedule. Four classes a day are taken, and alternate between schedules. The school uses the State of South Carolina's uniform grading scale where an A is 100–90, a B is 89–80, a C is 79–70, a D is 69–60, and an F is 59–0.

Athletics

Bluffton High School competes at the Class AAAA level in the

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. The school fields teams for boys in football, wrestling, basketball, swimming, cross country, track & field, tennis, golf, soccer, and lacrosse; and for girls in cheerleading, volleyball, basketball, swimming, cross country, soccer, track & field, tennis, lacrosse, and golf. In 2009 and 2011, the girls' golf team won a state title. In 2011, the football team made it to the AAA state final. In 2017, the Boys Soccer team reached the AAA state final.

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