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York High School is a York County School Division high school located in Yorktown in York County, Virginia on U.S. Route 17 about 3 miles south of Yorktown. The school was opened in 1954 and currently enrolls over one thousand students. Athletic teams compete in the Virginia High School League's AA Bay Rivers District in Region I. The school is the home of the school division's television station and offers television production courses in the curriculum. The school is also the home of the York River Academy (a charter school that focuses on collaborative education teaching computer repair, cabling, and web design) and is the YCSD site for the International Baccalaureate Programme. York High School was also home to the most powerful high school radio station in the United States, WYCS 91.5.〔(York High Alumni Association - WYCS 91.5 FM The United State's (sic) Most Powerful High School Radio Station )〕 == History == York High School opened in 1954 as the public school for grades 6 through 12 for the white children of the area, while the York County Training School in the Grafton area of York County would be used by black students. Before York High School opened, students attended other neighboring schools: Poquoson, Magruder in Williamsburg, and Morrison in Newport News, later to be known as Warwick High School. Black students in Grades 1 - 12 attended the newly constructed James Weldon Johnson School. York High School issued its first student yearbook, then titled "The York Bugle," in 1955. From 1955 to 1970, an avalanche of over 5,000 pupils descended upon the York County school system. Families were moving out of the cities and many came from other states as some were returning after having been stationed in the county during their military service. Many changes to the schools came during that period as well. The year 1964 was the last year the school received funds from the district school levy. As of 1964, integration of YCSD schools began and the fall of 1967 marked the end of segregation. The James Weldon Johnson School, built on the same floor plan as YHS under the "separate but equal" emphasis during Segregation, became Yorktown Intermediate School. Several additions were added to York High School within its first few years as the building would need to provide space for more than a thousand students in grades 6 through 12. As new schools opened, the school's population was reduced to consist of students of grades 9 through 12. The school served the entire county until Tabb High School opened in 1972 and Bruton High School opened in 1976. 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「York High School (Yorktown, Virginia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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