Nicholas County High School is a

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located in

Summersville, West Virginia Summersville is a city in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 3,459 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Nicholas County. History Summersville was laid out in 1824. The city was named for Lewis Summers, a lo ...

. The mascot for NCHS is the

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, and its school colors are

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and

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. Due to steady decline in student enrollment, the school currently ranks as a AA school down from a AAA. As a result of flood damage to Richwood High School in June 2016, plans were made to consolidate RHS with NCHS on a new campus. The planned consolidation, however, was rejected by the West Virginia Board of Education on June 13, 2017. On June 2, 2020, the Nicholas County Board of Education broke ground on a new campus for NCHS and Summersville Middle School (which was destroyed in the flood of 2016 and had to be placed in a modular setting) at Glade Creek. The current NCHS campus will be remodeled to house Summersville Elementary School. In 2008 Nicholas County High School was listed in the top 10% of high schools in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. NCHS was one of the few schools to be included on the list, and the only school in the Nicholas County School System. In 2023, Nicholas County High School is ranked 87th within West Virginia.

Extracurriculars

Nicholas County's Future Problem Solvers Team has placed 12th in the world and won two first place titles and one second place title at the 2013 West Virginia FBLA Conference.

Sports

NCHS placed 16th in the

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Football Tournament in 2007, 12th place in 2008, 8th in 2009, and 9th in 2012, as well as 8th in the WVSSAC Cheerleading Tournament in 2007. Sports offered at NCHS are: *

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

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* Cross country

Marching band

The Nicholas County High School Marching Grizzlies have placed in many different

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competitions, including Black Walnut Festival and Tri-State. At ratings festival, they received three scores of 1, which is the highest a band can score. The band was nominated to participate in the 2010 National Independence Day Parade. The band performed at the 2014 Poca Band Invitational where they were the 1st Runner Up for Grand Champion in Marching for Class C bands; they competed against 3 other bands in their class. Other 2014 competitions which the band participated in were Ripley and Black Walnut. The current director is Roger Lee Akers, who has served Nicholas County High School since 2004. The marching band has also won awards in marching, auxiliary,

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, drum major, and overall band.

References

External links

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