Tuscaloosa County High School serves grades 9

Ninth grade

Ninth grade is the ninth post-kindergarten year of school education in some school systems. The students are 13 to 15 years of age, depending on when their birthday occurs. Depending on the school district, ninth grade is usually the first year of high school....

-12

Twelfth grade

Twelfth grade or Senior year, or Grade Twelve, are the North American names for the final year of secondary school. In most countries students then graduate at age 17 or 18. In some countries, there is a thirteenth grade, while other countries do not have a 12th grade/year at all...

 and is located in Northport, Alabama

Northport, Alabama

Northport is a city in Tuscaloosa County in the west central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. Located on the Black Warrior River across from downtown Tuscaloosa, it is currently the 24th largest city in Alabama with an estimated population of 23,442 in 2009...

, forming part of the Tuscaloosa County Schools

Tuscaloosa County Schools

Tuscaloosa County School System is a public school district headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. The district's boundaries parallel that of the county of Tuscaloosa.-High schools:*Brookwood High School*Hillcrest High School*Holt High School...

. Tuscaloosa County High was opened near downtown Northport in the 1920s, and around the year 2000 was moved to its current location, further north of Northport.

Athletics

Tuscaloosa County High competes in the Alabama High School Athletic Association

Alabama High School Athletic Association

The Alabama High School Athletic Association , based in Montgomery, is the agency which oversees interscholastic athletic programs for public schools in Alabama....

, under class 6A region 5. The school's athletic squads are nicknamed the Wildcats. County High's football team is one of the best in the state every year. The football team won the 6A State Championship in 1997. Their most prominent alumni is Le'Ron McClain

Le'Ron McClain

- Baltimore Ravens :McClain signed with the Ravens on July 27, 2007. He scored his first career touchdown on a Kyle Boller pass against the San Diego Chargers on November 25, 2007...

, who play football for County High, then went on to play for Alabama

Alabama Crimson Tide football

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 and the Baltimore Ravens

Baltimore Ravens

The Baltimore Ravens are a professional football franchise based in Baltimore, Maryland.The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1995 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his...

. It currently has an enrollment of nearly 1850, which will decrease in the 2010-2011 school year when students from the further north communities of Northport move into Sipsey Valley High School in Coker.

Alma mater

(v1) Rising midst the golden cornfields

‘Tis our Alma Mater true.

Points our dear old TCHS

Proudly to the velvet blue.

(v2) Song to thee, our Alma Mater

With our voices loud and clear.

We will sing with hearts devoted.

We who hold thy memory dear.

(v3) We now pledge to love and honor

With a love that never shall die.

For we all shall cherish ever

Tuscaloosa County High.

(Chorus) Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,

Best of all beneath the sky.

Hail to thee, our Alma Mater,

Tuscaloosa County High.

Words by Lenora Deason
Music by Arnold Deason

Fight song

Rah, Rah for County High

County High must win.

Fight to the finish

Never give in.

Rah, Rah, Rah.

You do your best boys.

We'll do the rest boys.

Rah, Rah for TCHS.

Rah, Rah!