Type Public High School Status Currently operational NCES School ID 330246000055 Number of students 1,779 Colors White, Crimson | Established 1846 (1846) NCES District ID 3302460 Phone +1 603-225-0800 District Concord School District | |
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Motto Latin: Scientia, Concordia, Sapientia
(Knowledge, Harmony and Wisdoms) Address 170 Warren St, Concord, NH 03301, USA | ||
Concord High School is a high school in Concord, New Hampshire, in the United States.
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History
Concord's first public high school was established in 1846. The original building was the building on the corner of State and School streets. A new school house was built in 1862, which stood until April 1888, when it burned down during a fire started by a chemistry experiment. For the next two years, students took their classes in City Hall. A new high school was built on the same lot, completed and dedicated in September 1890. In 1907, yet another Concord High School, designed to accommodate 500 students, was built on Spring Street in the building which became Kimball School. (The building was demolished in 2012 to make way for the new Christa McAuliffe Elementary School.) The current high school was built in 1927 on Warren Street, with new wings added in 1960 and 1996.
Some of the features that Concord High currently has are a new media center (library), student center (cafeteria), performing arts area and four commons areas, each with its own administrative and student community where student lockers are located. ConcordTV, the local public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV station for Concord, is currently located in Concord High.
Principals
Charles C. Cook was Headmaster for thirty years from 1906 to 1936. Cook began the National Honor Society Chapter which still exists at Concord High School. Other long-serving principals include John E. Reed who was principal from 1939 to 1960, Charlie Foley who was principal from 1973 to 1990, and Gene Connolly who was principal from 2001 to 2016.
In the recent history of Concord High School, Dr. Christine Rath (principal from 1991 to 1997) oversaw the transformation of the school from a three-year to a four-year school which included ninth grade students. At the same time Rath assisted in the design of the current high school building which was able to accommodate every high school student in Concord.
Athletics
The current Athletic Director is Steve Mello (two time AD of the year), and the Athletic Trainer for the Tide is Hannah Cullen.
School dance
At Concord High's first dance of the 2006-2007 school year, Concord High drew local media attention when administration ejected from a dance about a dozen students for grinding, a style of dancing that the administration deemed overtly sexual for a school function. In protest of this, about 150 other students walked out of the dance. The administration met with student body leaders to try to reach an agreement. They were not able to, and for the first time in the school's history, the homecoming dance was postponed, and every other dance that year was canceled. An exception was made for the senior prom, however.