Pasquotank County High School is a school in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, USA. PCHS's mascot is the

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. Its school colors are navy blue and silver. It is one of three high schools in the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools system; the other (sometimes considered a rival) is Northeastern High School. PCHS was established in 2000 to relieve the population of Northeastern High; however, all members of the senior class of 2001 remained at Northeastern, making the class of 2002 the first graduating class of Pasquotank County High. The class of 2004 was the first group of students to start at the school as freshmen and graduate from there, spending all four years as PCHS Panthers.

Campus

The school is in a complex with two other schools, the new ECMS (Elizabeth City Middle School) building, and Northside Elementary School. Serving a total student population of 4,102

Administration history

Patti Hamler (2000–2007)

Patti Hamler was the first Principal at PCHS opening the school in 2000. Hamler was the Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools Principal of the Year for 2003. Hamler left to become principal of Leesville Road Middle School in Wake County, North Carolina at the conclusion of the 2006–07 school year.

Cynthia Morris (2007–08)

Cynthia Morris, who was an Assistant Principal at PCHS, served as interim principal for the Fall 2007 semester. In June 2008 it was announced that Morris would become the principal at Elizabeth City Middle School.

Amy Fyffe (2008–2017)

Amy Fyffe was named school principal at Pasquotank County High School beginning with the Spring 2008 semester. She was formerly a teacher and assistant principal at Northeastern High School. Fyffe was named the 2011 Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools principal of the year. At the end of the 2016–2017 school year it was announced that Fyffe would take up the principal position at the newly established Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools early college located on the campus of College of the Albemarle

Brian Ruffin (August 2017–November 2017)

Brian Ruffin was named school principal at Pasquotank County High School beginning with the Fall 2017 semester. He is coming to Pasquotank County High School from Hertford County Early College High School in Ahoskie, where he was school principal. He was removed from the position near the end of the Fall 2017 semester. It was reported that he was on "Self-Selective Sick leave"

Sports

The school offers

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

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 ...

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

, basketball, wrestling, soccer, and many other sports. The volleyball made it to the third round of the playoffs in 2010.

School clubs

The school offers the clubs:

Future Business Leaders of America The Future Business Leaders of America, or FBLA, is an American career and technical student organization headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Established in 1940, FBLA is a non-profit organization of high school ("FBLA"), Middle Level ("FBLA ...

Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA, formerly known as Future Homemakers of America) is a nonprofit national career and technical student organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences education in public ...

, Future Farmers of America,

National Honors Society The National Honor Society (NHS) is a nationwide organization for high school students in the United States and outlying territories, which consists of many chapters in high schools. Selection is based on four criteria: scholarship (academic achi ...

Drama Club ''Drama Club'' is an American comedy mockumentary created by Monica Sherer and Madeline Whitby that aired on Nickelodeon from March 20 to May 22, 2021. Premise The Tookus Middle School Drama Club has Mack as the new student director, who is e ...

, and many more.

References

External links

* {{authority control Public high schools in North Carolina Schools in Pasquotank County, North Carolina