Forestview High School
| Forestview High School | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| 5545 Union Road Gastonia, North Carolina 28056 |
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| Coordinates | 35°10′59″N 81°08′08″W / 35.18306°N 81.13556°W |
| Information | |
| Established | 1998 |
| School district | Gaston County Schools |
| Category | Public School |
| Principal | Chad Carper |
| Staff | 87 |
| Enrollment | 1,186 |
| Color(s) |
Silver and Black |
| Athletics conference | Big South (3A) |
| Team name | Jaguars |
| Rivals |
Ashbrook Hunter Huss |
| Website | Forestview High School |
Forestview High School is a public high school in the Gaston County Schools school district located in Gastonia, NC. Its attendance range covers the central portion of southern Gaston County and includes the southern portions of the City of Gastonia, as well as the community of Boogertown, and the surrounding rural area. Chad Carper serves as principal. Assistant principals are Ron Brown, Jennifer Cabe, Janet Ramsey, and Angela Sorenson. Alan Stewart serves as athletic director.
Forestview was formed and founded via an effort by Gaston County Schools to ease overcrowding at Hunter Huss High School and Ashbrook High School. The school's mission is stated as follows: In partnership with the community, Forestview High School provides quality teaching and support to empower each student for a successful lifetime of learning and citizenship. When the school opened it allowed Gaston County Schools to switch from the Junior High School setup to Middle School setup; the added room created by opening the high school allowed enough room at all other high schools in the county to accept 9th grade classes. Consequently, 6th graders moved from the county's elementary schools to the newly re-branded middle schools, creating addition space at the county's elementary schools.
According to the tenth edition of Forestview High School's Jagged Edge Yearbook, on Monday, April 24, 1995, the Gaston County Schools Board of Education chose the name for Gastonia's newest high school. The school opened its doors in August 1998 without a senior class. The first ever senior class graduated in 2000. Eighty percent of Forestview graduates go on to attend college and, in the 2007-2008 school year, Forestview set a county record with $42 million in scholarships.
Gastonia native Chuc Clubb came up with the name of Forestview. Clubb decided on the name "Forestview" in 1994 while walking around the newly purchased land site for the new school.
Forestview's first principal, Robert Carpenter, was selected to serve in 1996. Forestview's second principal Audrey Devine was selected as Gaston County Principal of the Year for the 2008-2009 school year while serving as principal of Belmont Middle School. She was also named Southwest North Carolina Principal of the Year in 2009-2010. She was moved from Forestview to serve as the founding principal of Stuart W. Cramer High School.
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