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Parkersburg High School (PHS) is a secondary school located in Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States, that serves grades nine through twelve and is part of the Wood County School District. As of the 2012-2013 West Virginia Secondary School Activity Commission's high school classifications, the school has 1,821 students and the average classroom size is twenty-five. The Wood County School District has 13,746 students in 29 schools. Its partner in education is DuPont.〔(Parkersburg News and Sentinel | Parkersburg News and Sentinel )〕 Parkersburg High is the second-largest populated school in the state of West Virginia (behind Cabell Midland High School in Ona, WV) and has the largest campus in the state. The feeder schools that contribute to this student population are Jackson Middle School, Hamilton Middle School and Van Devender Middle School.〔http://wvssac.org/wvssac/school_personnel_directory.asp〕 When the new high school and campus opened in 1917, the old high school was renamed Washington Junior High School. Previously, Washington Junior High School fed PHS as well. The old downtown Washington Jr. High School building was demolished in 1964.〔http://electricearl.com/parkersburg/highschool-old.html〕 Washington Junior High then opened in the former Jefferson Elementary School on Plum Street, adjacent to a newly built Jefferson Elementary School. Washington Junior High closed in 1992, combining with Jefferson Elementary School to become an elementary center in 1998.〔http://www.wvs.state.wv.us/wvsba/Wood/school.htm〕 ==History== Parkersburg High School was one of the very first high schools in the state of West Virginia. The school was founded in 1867, and the original location of Parkersburg High School was in downtown Parkersburg. The current building housing PHS has a Tudor Style architecture with three stories. It was designed by noted Ohio architect Frank Packard (1866–1923), and built in 1917, making it one of the oldest school buildings in West Virginia and it remains the largest high school campus in the state. Later additions included Stadium Field and a multi-story gymnasium.〔http://www.lctrcrl.com/parkersburg/highschool-nw.html〕 It is located in the Parkersburg High School-Washington Avenue Historic District, listed to the National Register of Historical Places in 1992. PHS continued to serve as the only high school in Parkersburg, at one point holding a population of around three thousand students. It was only after graduating a class of eleven hundred thirty seven (1137) students in 1965 that a second public school was founded in 1967. This in turn started a rivalry between the two schools that continues to be one of the largest and most famous in the state of West Virginia. The rivalry between the two sides of Parkersburg originated much earlier in the town's history, so the rivalry between the two schools was a natural spin-off that has brought about some dramatic competition. Planetarium The construction of a planetarium was conducted in the 1960s through the joint efforts of the Rotary Club, Corning Glass Works, the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) and the Wood County Board of Education. Cost for constructing the room and purchasing equipment was $32,770.00. It is one of the first high schools in America to have a planetarium. 〔-Ken Gilbert, former Art teacher, PHS. Parkersburg High School Foundation (History).〕 Data Processing Center During the 1965-66 school year, PHS became one of the first high schools in the United States to offer students classes in data processing and computer programming in the "new" and expanding technology. The Burroughs computer required a huge, temperature controlled room of its own, and had a memory capacity of 640 Kb—considered top-of-the-line then. It used six phone booth-sized magnetic tape readers for computations.〔Verification of Burroughs model number needed.〕 in 1967, upon completion of the second high school, the computer center was re-located to the new building. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parkersburg High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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