Varina High School is located in eastern Henrico County, Virginia

Henrico County, Virginia

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. The current principal of the school is Tracie Omohoundro.

Programs

It is the home of the Center for Communications (CFC), one of Henrico County's eight specialty centers open to all students county-wide. The CFC is a program in which students learn to master oral, written, and communications skills.

Varina has a music department offering Concert band. Jazz studies, Percussion, marching band, pep band, theory, guard, jazz choir, show choir, honors choir and women's choir.
The Varina high school band is a 12 time Virginia Honor Band

Issues

Varina also has many gangs on its campus. These gangs never engage in gang wars during schools, but the gangsters that are a part of them can be noted by their baggy pants and wearing a hat underneath of their sweater hood. These gangs do sell drugs though, which is a great problem for the administratos of Varina High school because students are buying drugs on campus. More than half of the students enrolled at the highschool (about 68%) have been tested for drug use, and came back positive. Assistant principals and the normal principal are all working hard to stop the drugs that are terrorizing their students all day long, but because they have classes in trailers, at some points, the students can easily hide behind the trailers to deal or take the drugs

External links

• Varina High School's web page
• Varina High School Wrestling Team
• Varina Bands