Wichita South High School
| Wichita South High School | |
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| Address | |
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701 West 33rd Street South Wichita, Kansas 67217 |
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| Coordinates | 37°37′54″N 97°20′43″W / 37.631748°N 97.345361°WCoordinates: 37°37′54″N 97°20′43″W / 37.631748°N 97.345361°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public, High School |
| Established | 1959 |
| School board | boe.usd259.org |
| School district | USD 259 |
| Superintendent | John Allison |
| CEEB code | 173211 |
| Principal | Cara Ledy |
| Athletic Director | Michelle Kuhns |
| Band Director | Jordan Brown |
| Staff | 194 |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Gender | Coed |
| Enrollment | 1,922 (2016–17) |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) |
Red Royal Blue |
| Athletics | Class 6A |
| Athletics conference | GWAL |
| Sports | 19 (10 Boys, 9 Girls) |
| Mascot | Titans |
| Rival | Wichita West |
| Newspaper | The Torch |
| Yearbook | Sceptre |
| Communities served | Wichita |
| Website | usd259.org/south |
Wichita South High School, known locally as South, is a fully accredited high school, serving students in grades 9-12, located in Wichita, Kansas. It is also known as Wichita High School South. The school colors are blue and red. The schools enrollment was 1,922 during the 2016–2017 school year, making it the 9th largest high school in Kansas.
South first opened its doors in 1959. South's floor plan was modeled exactly after the Southeast's floor plan for their original building on Edgemoor. When South opened, their sports teams were known as the Colonels, though their colors were still red and blue. In the 1970s, the Wichita School board requested that South change their mascot name. The name Titans was chosen by students and the original Titan logo, that is still used by the school to this day, was drawn by a student. In the late 1970s, a $2 million football stadium was built. In 1985, South High athletic director C. Elmer Carpenter died and the football stadium was named in his honor. Also, in the 1980s, Sims Elementary, which was situated just a few hundred feet from the eastern end of the school, closed. South began using the old elementary school for the language arts department.
The school went up to 2004 without any major changes. In 2003, the school board approved a construction project to connect the main building of South to the "Sim Building" (as students and faculty called it), the project also added two new hallways and 20 new classrooms. The project began in early 2004 and was finally completed a year later in 2005. Also added to the school, from the same bond issue, was a baseball field that opened for play in 2007.
In 2008, another bond issue was passed by the Wichita School Board to create "equal athletic facility opportunities" for all Wichita high schools. South's share of the bond issue was $10 million, which was used to put a new floor on the gym, buy new equipment for the schools weight room, improvements to the school's tennis court, and renovations to Carpenter Stadium including putting in Fieldturf on the field and new goal posts, as well as resurfacing the track.
On October 24, 2011, the Wichita School Board approved a $14.2 million bond issue to build a new 2,400-seat gym, a new practice room for the wrestling team, a walking track, and new locker rooms, as well as a new swimming pool, music suite, new pottery studio, art space, digital photography classrooms, a culinary arts room and a room devoted to its new fire science program that started in the 2011–2012 school year.
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