Nitro High School is a public high school in Kanawha County, West Virginia

Kanawha County, West Virginia

As of the census of 2000, there were 200,073 people, 86,226 households, and 55,960 families residing in the county. The population density was 222 people per square mile . There were 93,788 housing units at an average density of 104 per square mile...

. It is located in Nitro, West Virginia

Nitro, West Virginia

Nitro is a city in West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. Most of the city lies in Kanawha County, with the remainder in Putnam County. The population was 7,178 at the 2010 census.Nitro was incorporated in 1932 by Circuit Court.- City name origin :...

. It is one of eight public high schools in the Kanawha County School District. Founded in 1917 as a federal school then bought by the county in 1923, Nitro is the oldest high school in Kanawha County.

Sports

Nitro's school colors are Red & Black.

• Baseball

2008 and 2010 AAA State Champions...

• Football
  • 1998 AAA WV State Championship
• Cheerleaders
• Boys Basketball
• Girls Basketball
• Boys Swimming
• Girls Swimming
  • Winners of the 2009 WV State Girls Swimming Championship
• Boys Tennis
• Girls Tennis
• Volleyball
• Softball
• Freshman Basketball
• Co-ed Fencing
• Girls Track
• Boys Track
• Golf
• Girls Soccer
  • Winners of the 2008 WV State Girls Soccer Championship.
• Boys Soccer
• Wrestling

Most successful 3Aschool in the Mountain State Athletic Conference in 2008.

850 Students AAA

Clubs & Organizations

• AFJROTC
• Community Service
• Drama Club
• ShowChoir
• All Girls ShowChoir
• Chamber Choir
• Youth Alive
• Student Council
• FRESDELA
• Key Club
• FCA
• National Monopoly team
• Marching Band
• Ski Club
• National Honor Society
• Mu Alpha Theta
• Concert Band
• Show Choir Band
• Dance Team

Nitro High School Marching Band (60 Members) is one of the eight public high schools in Kanawha County that compete in the Daily Mail Kanawha County Majorette and Band Festival

Daily Mail Kanawha County Majorette and Band Festival

The Daily Mail Kanawha County Majorette and Band Festival is an annual festival dedicated to high school bands and majorette corps in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The event is held at the University of Charleston Stadium at Laidley Field in Charleston, West Virginia at the end of September of...

. Their band director, Richard Brooks, was voted the Prettiest Band Director of 2011 and is in the nomination for 2012. They have won the Festival Grand Championship three times (1976, 2001, and 2003) and have had two girls named Miss Kanawha Majorette (Frances Snyder in 1956 and Judy Boggess in 1971).

Famous Alums

• William "Bill" Richard Winter
  William "Bill" Richard Winter
  William Richard Winter is a former Marshall University football player.-High school career:Bill Winter graduated in 1961 from Nitro High Schhol and is one of the greatest athletes the school has ever produced...
  
   (1961) had a hall of fame football career at Marshall.
• Kathy Mattea
  Kathy Mattea
  Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...
  
  
• Lew Burdette
  Lew Burdette
  Selva Lewis Burdette, Jr. was an American right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played primarily for the Boston and Milwaukee Braves...
  
    When Milwaukee won the 1957 World Series against the Yankees, Burdette became the first pitcher in 37 years to win three complete games in a Series, and the first since Christy Mathewson in 1905 to pitch two shutouts (Games 5 and 7).
• Fred Zain
  Fred Zain
  Fred Zain was a disgraced forensic lab technician in West Virginia and Bexar County, Texas, USA.He was employed as a trooper in the West Virginia crime lab based on a false resume...
  
  A disgraced forensic lab technician in West Virginia and Bexar County, Texas, USA.