Established 1910 Principal John Reid Phone +1 270-538-4090 Founded 1910 | Closed 2013 Grades 9-12 Number of students 534 (2012–2013) | |
Teaching staff 35.9 (FTE) (as of 2007-08) Similar McCracken County High Sch, Lone Oak High School, Paducah Tilghman High Sch, Ballard County Schools, Paducah Independ School | ||
Heath High School was a secondary school operated by the McCracken County Public Schools district in the rural community of West Paducah, unincorporated McCracken County, Kentucky, near the largest city in the state's far-western Purchase region, Paducah. Established in 1910, the school served students in grades 9-12. It closed in June 2013 in advance of the August opening of a new McCracken County High School, which consolidates Heath, Reidland and Lone Oak High Schools.
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Campus
For many years, the school shared a campus with Heath Elementary School and Heath Middle School, but by the time of the high school's closure, the elementary school had moved to a new campus on the opposite side of Metropolis Lake Road.
Extracurricular activities
Student groups and activities at Heath High School included 4-H, book club, concert and marching band, choir, drama club, environmental club, FBLA, FCCLA, FFA, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, fitness club, Friends of Rachel, Frisbee, Habitat for Humanity, National Honor Society, pep club, SADD, Spanish club, student council, and yearbook.
Athletics
The school's sports teams, known as the Heath Pirates, competed as members of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association. The football, cross country, and track teams competed in enrollment Class 2A (the KHSAA divides schools into enrollment-based classes in those three sports only). Teams were also fielded in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, and volleyball.
State championship titles held by the school's teams include: