John S. Battle High School
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John S. Battle High School is a high school
located in the Southwest portion of Virginia
in Washington County
. The school was named after the Governor John S. Battle
. It was built in 1959. There have been many additions. The Mason building is in the Northwest quadrant of the school. In the 1970s, it was added to accommodate more than 1000 students. For the 2006-2007 academic school year, the school accommodates over 650 students. The principal is Jeff Hawkins, the vice principal is Randy Poole, and the Director of Athletics is Kevin Perrigan. The department chairs, and therefore the curriculum coordinators for their area, are Dr. William Phelps for English, Mike Posey for Social Studies, Teresa Austin for Math, Jane Fleenor for Science, and Teresa Price for Foreign Languages.
High school
High school is a term used in parts of the English speaking world to describe institutions which provide all or part of secondary education. The term is often incorporated into the name of such institutions....
located in the Southwest portion of Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
in Washington County
Washington County, Virginia
As of the census of 2000, there were 51,103 people, 21,056 households, and 14,949 families residing in the county. The population density was 91 people per square mile . There were 22,985 housing units at an average density of 41 per square mile...
. The school was named after the Governor John S. Battle
John S. Battle
John Stewart Battle was an American politician and the 56th Governor of Virginia from 1950 to 1954.Battle was born in 1890 in New Bern, Craven County, North Carolina. He earned an associate's degree from Mars Hill College , in North Carolina...
. It was built in 1959. There have been many additions. The Mason building is in the Northwest quadrant of the school. In the 1970s, it was added to accommodate more than 1000 students. For the 2006-2007 academic school year, the school accommodates over 650 students. The principal is Jeff Hawkins, the vice principal is Randy Poole, and the Director of Athletics is Kevin Perrigan. The department chairs, and therefore the curriculum coordinators for their area, are Dr. William Phelps for English, Mike Posey for Social Studies, Teresa Austin for Math, Jane Fleenor for Science, and Teresa Price for Foreign Languages.
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