Carolina Forest High School
| Carolina Forest High School | |
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700 Gardner Lacy Road Carolina Forest, South Carolina 29579 United States |
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| Coordinates | 33°46′44″N 78°58′13″W / 33.77889°N 78.97028°WCoordinates: 33°46′44″N 78°58′13″W / 33.77889°N 78.97028°W |
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| Type | Public secondary |
| Established | 1994 |
| Oversight | Horry County School District |
| Superintendent | Cindy Elsberry |
| CEEB code | 411468 |
| Principal | Gaye Driggers |
| Faculty | 120 |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Enrollment | 2670 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 19:1 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Color(s) | Black, Cardinal, and silver |
| Mascot | Panthers |
| Feeder schools | Black Water Middle Ocean Bay Middle Carolina Forest Elementary Ocean Bay Elementary Palmetto Bays Elementary South Conway Elementary (part) Waccamaw Elementary Horry County Educational Center |
| Website | http://cfh.horrycountyschools.net/ |
Carolina Forest High School is located in Horry County, South Carolina, United States, in the Carolina Forest attendance area. The school is one of nine high schools within Horry County Schools. The school serves parts of Myrtle Beach and eastern Conway. Approximately 2700 students attend Carolina Forest High School (grades 9-12) each year. It is led by Principal Gaye Driggers and Assistant Principal's Kristin Altman, James Baxley, Ronnie Burgess, and Jeremy Rich.
Carolina Forest High School was designed by LS3P Associates and built by Hay Construction Company. The school opened on August 25, 1997, as Carolina Forest Education Center to serve grades 6-12. Although the combined middle school/high school idea has long since been abandoned, the 352,078-square-foot (32,709.1 m2), sixty acre facility is now used as a high school. The basic structure of this facility is based on an 1876 schoolhouse.
Improvements to the school include renovation of all science labs on the southwest side of campus and conversion of many of the auxiliary buildings into student amenity centers.
In 1997, Carolina Forest Education Center opened and welcomed students from the Conway, Myrtle Beach, and Socastee attendance areas. The middle school opened with grades 6-8, but the high school opened with grades 9-10 only. Wendell Shealy was principal of the complex.
Eventually the "Education Center" concept was scrapped. In later years, Shealy was made principal of Carolina Forest Middle School and Ron Malone became principal of Carolina Forest High School, although his tenure was short. There were a series of interim principals for the high school which created instability and a lack of progress. Rick Maxey assumed the principalship of CFHS from 1998-2000
Maxey left the school to become principal of Conway High School. Velna Allen, who had served as assistant principal under Maxey, became principal and remains in that post. Allen had been a mathematics teacher at Conway High School for several years prior to her administrative positions at CFHS.
At the end of the 2004-2005 school year Wendell Shealy retired, his leadership laid the foundation for many of the programs taken for granted at both schools. Cindy Thibodeau became principal of Carolina Forest Middle School. At the end of the 2005-2006 school year Carolina Forest Middle School ceased to exist. Due to a population explosion in the Carolina Forest area, two new middle schools have been constructed: Ocean Bay Middle School and Blackwater Middle School. The old middle school section of the Carolina Forest Education Center has now been absorbed into the high school. The school now consists of 14 separate buildings: seven Academic Hallways, a library building, an art studio, a journalism building, a fitness center, a drama building, an auxiliary building, and a central building containing the main offices, an auditorium, a cafeteria, two gymnasiums, and several classrooms.
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