Ronald W. Reagan High School
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Ronald Wilson Reagan High School is a high school under the direction of the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
system. It is located in Pfafftown, North Carolina
and has a student population of approximately 1700 as of the 2011/12 school year. The school is newly constructed and began operation at the beginning of the 2005/06 school year. Reagan is currently a North Carolina 4A school, the state's highest level. Reagan's student population continues to grow at an incredible rate since its opening, having already reached its capacity and set for additions in the coming years. A new wing was completed and opened for the 2009/10 school year. Each classroom is equipped with a teacher workstation and corresponding monitors. The class of 2007 was the first to graduate from Reagan High School. Frank Martin is the current principal.
, basketball
, cheerleading
, cross country
, field hockey
, football
, golf
, ice hockey
, indoor track, lacrosse
, Raiderettes dance
team, soccer, softball
, swimming
, tennis
, track and field
, volleyball
, winter guard
, and wrestling
. 2010 Cross Country Regional Champs.
Reagan shares a rivalry with a few schools in its area. Mount Tabor High School
, R.J. Reynolds High School, West Forsyth High School
, and North Forsyth High School
are all heated rivals of Reagan's. Reagan's biggest rivals are Mount Tabor High School and West Forsyth High School and is fueled by the massive amounts of students who tried to choice into Reagan from those two schools. A resentment of Reagan has ensued and continues to grow.
The Reagan Raiders Ice Hockey team is a part of the CHL or Carolina Hockey League. The League consists of teams from Virginia Beach, Roanoke,VA, Florence,SC, Wilmington,NC, and Fayetteville,NC. Reagan represents the city of Winston Salem, NC.
Reagan's Band of Raiders has been very successful in many area competitions.
The Reagan Girl's Golf Team placed second in the state championships during the 2011/2012 school year, and student Victoria Allred placed number one overall in the state.
The school offers several AP courses. Reagan also houses a charter of the National Honors Society.
The schools Class AA Band of Raiders was one of the schools first successful athletic programs, adding 32 members to its ranks in the 2011-2012 school year alone. At the Food Lion Classic Marching Band Competition in September, 2010, the band earned "Band of the Day," a high honor, and at Patton High School, the school's Jazz I ensemble place superior in competition.
The school's publications, The Rooster and The Nexus, have won numerous awards. The Nexus alone has won The Tarheel award, one of the most prestigious publication awards of North Carolina, with its 08/09 yearbook.
For three consecutive years, Reagan's academic team has won the Academic Competition
championship against West Forsyth High School
in 2007, R.J. Reynolds High School in 2008, and Mount Tabor High School
in 2009. The academic team won another championship in 2011 beating R.J. Reynolds High School in a close championship game.
During the 2010-2011 school year, Reagan suffered greatly. During the beginning of the year, the school lost its softball coach Ray Chandler due to a long-term illness. On January 9, 2011, fellow student Nick Doub was killed in a car accident after losing control of his car on black ice. His death, like Josh Shelton's, received a huge response from the student body; the student body & Nick Doub's family showed their support by creating the "Nicholas Doub 'Doobie' Scholarship" for students at Reagan High. On March 15, horticulture teacher Chuck Warren died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This was the same day in which the teacher was suspended with pay for alleged inappropriate conduct with another student who had graduated during a previous school year (2009). On March 18, freshman Brooke Edwards was killed after being struck by a vehicle while walking across the street after a high school field hockey game in front of West Forsyth High School. The school was also followed in the news during January of the same year when a lead member of the track and cross country team, Forrest Lyerly, was arrested outside the school for attempted robbery with a deadly weapon at a nearby gas station. On May 10th of 2011, Jessie Davis, a senior, lost her lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.
On August 27th of 2011, just two days after the start of the new 2011-2012 school year, freshman Devante Calderon drowned in a lake off of Olivet Church Road.
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is a school district in Forsyth County, North Carolina. WS/FCS has over 75 schools in its system, and it serves over 53,300 students every year. WS/FCS was formed in 1963 by the merger of the Forsyth County School System and the Winston-Salem School System...
system. It is located in Pfafftown, North Carolina
Pfafftown, North Carolina
Pfafftown , North Carolina is an unincorporated community which has been partially annexed into the cities of Winston-Salem in Forsyth County and Lewisville, also in Forsyth County. As of the 2000 census, the ZCTA of Pfafftown had a population of 9,562...
and has a student population of approximately 1700 as of the 2011/12 school year. The school is newly constructed and began operation at the beginning of the 2005/06 school year. Reagan is currently a North Carolina 4A school, the state's highest level. Reagan's student population continues to grow at an incredible rate since its opening, having already reached its capacity and set for additions in the coming years. A new wing was completed and opened for the 2009/10 school year. Each classroom is equipped with a teacher workstation and corresponding monitors. The class of 2007 was the first to graduate from Reagan High School. Frank Martin is the current principal.
Athletics
Reagan is home to the following athletic teams: baseballBaseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
, cross country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
, field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, football
High school football
High school football, in North America, refers to the game of football as it is played in the United States and Canada. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both of these nations....
, golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
, ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
, indoor track, lacrosse
Lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh...
, Raiderettes dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
team, soccer, softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, swimming
Swimming (sport)
Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
, tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, track and field
Track and field
Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...
, volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, winter guard
Winter guard
Winter guard is an indoor color guard activity, derived from marching band or drum & bugle corps. Unlike traditional color guard, winter guard is performed indoors, usually in a gymnasium or an indoor arena...
, and wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
. 2010 Cross Country Regional Champs.
Reagan shares a rivalry with a few schools in its area. Mount Tabor High School
Mount Tabor High School
Mount Tabor High School is a high school located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is part of the WS/FCS School System. As of 2010, Mount Tabor has a student population of over 1,600 9th through 12th grade students and is a North Carolina 4A school. Mount Tabor was previously part of the Metro...
, R.J. Reynolds High School, West Forsyth High School
West Forsyth High School
West Forsyth Senior High School is a high school in central North Carolina, United States. The school has about 2,000 students. It is the largest in Forsyth County.- General :...
, and North Forsyth High School
North Forsyth High School (North Carolina)
North Forsyth High School is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US. There are about 1,300 students in grades 9 through 12. The motto of the school is "learning together, now and forever". The mascot is a Viking. The school colors are Crimson, White, & Columbia Blue.-Academics:North Forsyth...
are all heated rivals of Reagan's. Reagan's biggest rivals are Mount Tabor High School and West Forsyth High School and is fueled by the massive amounts of students who tried to choice into Reagan from those two schools. A resentment of Reagan has ensued and continues to grow.
The Reagan Raiders Ice Hockey team is a part of the CHL or Carolina Hockey League. The League consists of teams from Virginia Beach, Roanoke,VA, Florence,SC, Wilmington,NC, and Fayetteville,NC. Reagan represents the city of Winston Salem, NC.
Reagan's Band of Raiders has been very successful in many area competitions.
The Reagan Girl's Golf Team placed second in the state championships during the 2011/2012 school year, and student Victoria Allred placed number one overall in the state.
The school offers several AP courses. Reagan also houses a charter of the National Honors Society.
The schools Class AA Band of Raiders was one of the schools first successful athletic programs, adding 32 members to its ranks in the 2011-2012 school year alone. At the Food Lion Classic Marching Band Competition in September, 2010, the band earned "Band of the Day," a high honor, and at Patton High School, the school's Jazz I ensemble place superior in competition.
The school's publications, The Rooster and The Nexus, have won numerous awards. The Nexus alone has won The Tarheel award, one of the most prestigious publication awards of North Carolina, with its 08/09 yearbook.
For three consecutive years, Reagan's academic team has won the Academic Competition
Academic Competition (WSFCS)
Academic Competition is a program sponsored by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District. Academic Competition features high school students from the 10 schools across the county in weekly competition...
championship against West Forsyth High School
West Forsyth High School
West Forsyth Senior High School is a high school in central North Carolina, United States. The school has about 2,000 students. It is the largest in Forsyth County.- General :...
in 2007, R.J. Reynolds High School in 2008, and Mount Tabor High School
Mount Tabor High School
Mount Tabor High School is a high school located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is part of the WS/FCS School System. As of 2010, Mount Tabor has a student population of over 1,600 9th through 12th grade students and is a North Carolina 4A school. Mount Tabor was previously part of the Metro...
in 2009. The academic team won another championship in 2011 beating R.J. Reynolds High School in a close championship game.
School Layout
Reagan is WS/FCS's largest school covering an area of over 245,000 square feet. The school features two baseball fields, six tennis courts, a football field, soccer field, and track. The main school which has a modern architecture hosts two gyms, cafeteria seating for up to 500, an auditorium with room for 750, and around eighty classrooms. Last year Reagan received a grant worth over 23 million dollars for new technology. Each classroom is now equip with 52' inch flat screen televisions, computer stations, a personal teacher computer, new telephone and intercom systems, microphones, and a Mobie that enables teachers to write on a blank tablet and have it appear via television screen. The school also features the televisions throughout the hallways, cafeteria, and administrative offices. The cafeteria which hosts four different food stations also includes a personal bank and school store opened on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.Media coverage
The 2006-2007 school year brought about the first death of a student, Josh Shelton, who died upon hitting a tree with his vehicle late one night. He had just turned 16 and had recently obtained his license at the time. His death sparked a tremendous response from the student body, showing support for his family and each other. The second student death occurred during the 2008-2009 school year, when Kaitlyn Fitzgerald, a member of the 2009 graduating class, finally lost her ongoing battle with cancer. The student body again showed its support by creating a volleyball series in her honor, named "Spike Leukemia," which is held annually every volleyball season.During the 2010-2011 school year, Reagan suffered greatly. During the beginning of the year, the school lost its softball coach Ray Chandler due to a long-term illness. On January 9, 2011, fellow student Nick Doub was killed in a car accident after losing control of his car on black ice. His death, like Josh Shelton's, received a huge response from the student body; the student body & Nick Doub's family showed their support by creating the "Nicholas Doub 'Doobie' Scholarship" for students at Reagan High. On March 15, horticulture teacher Chuck Warren died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This was the same day in which the teacher was suspended with pay for alleged inappropriate conduct with another student who had graduated during a previous school year (2009). On March 18, freshman Brooke Edwards was killed after being struck by a vehicle while walking across the street after a high school field hockey game in front of West Forsyth High School. The school was also followed in the news during January of the same year when a lead member of the track and cross country team, Forrest Lyerly, was arrested outside the school for attempted robbery with a deadly weapon at a nearby gas station. On May 10th of 2011, Jessie Davis, a senior, lost her lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis.
On August 27th of 2011, just two days after the start of the new 2011-2012 school year, freshman Devante Calderon drowned in a lake off of Olivet Church Road.