Lugoff-Elgin High School (often ''LEHS'') is a

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located in

Lugoff, South Carolina Lugoff ( ) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kershaw County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 7,434 at the 2010 census, up from 6,278 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina ...

. It is one of the three high schools in the Kershaw County School District of

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. It opened in 1971. It is home of the Lugoff-Elgin Demons. As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,629 students and 83.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 19.5:1. There were 514 students (31.6% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 80 (4.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Lugoff-Elgin High
National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.

Athletics

Football, baseball, wrestling,

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, soccer,

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, volleyball, archery, track and other sports are offered at LEHS. South Carolina State Championship Titles: Cheerleading: 1998, 1999 Baseball: 1992, 1993, 2010 Wrestling: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2010 Marching Band: 1981 Softball: 2021

National Champion Award

Wrestling: Ben Connell – 2000 Big Head Champion James Leroy Dent - 1996

Rivalry

Camden and Lugoff-Elgin are rivals in every sport. This is referred around the Camden and Lugoff-Elgin area as the "

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Rivalry". The first football game against them was in 1978. Camden won the game with the score 19–6. They have been playing every year since 1982 (except 2020). The longest losing streak against Camden was from 1982 to 1995. Lugoff-Elgin's first win over Camden was in 1996 with the score 35–17. Camden won the last meeting in 2022 with the score 53–7. The 2020 game was canceled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Camden leads the rivalry 34–8.

Alumni

* Thomas Payne, Class of 2002, U.S. Army soldier and

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recipient

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