Calhoun County High School
{{About|the high school in South Carolina|the schools in Georgia and West Virginia with similar names|Calhoun High School (disambiguation){{!}}Calhoun High School}}
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{{Infobox school
| name = Calhoun County High School
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| streetaddress = 150 Saints Avenue
| city = St. Matthews, South Carolina
| zipcode = 29135
| country = United States
| coordinates = {{coord|33|39|55|N|80|47|57|W|type:edu_region:US-SC|display=inline,title}}
| district = Calhoun County Schools
| principal = Milton Howard
| staff =
| teaching_staff = 31.00 (FTE)
| ceeb = 411755
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| grades = 9–12
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| athletics = SCHSL Class AA, Region V
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| mascot = Saint
| colors = Red, black and white
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| enrollment = 418 (2023-2024){{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=4501250&ID=450125000187|title=Calhoun County High|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=March 28, 2025}}
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| homepage = {{URL|http://cchs.ccpsonline.net/}}
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Calhoun County High School is a public secondary school in St. Matthews, South Carolina, United States.
Campus
The campus has a pasture with the new K–8 school in front of it on Saints Avenue.
Extracurricular activities
The school's sports teams, known as the Saints, compete in the South Carolina High School League Class AA, Region V. They field teams in baseball, basketball, football, softball, track, and volleyball.{{citation needed|date=August 2021|reason=List of sports teams need a citation, MaxPreps is a good place to find a list of most sports}}
State championship titles held by the school's teams include:
- Boys' basketball: 1996 (AA), 2000 (AA), 2001 (AA), 2004 (AA), 2006 (A), 2007 (A), 2008 (A), 2009 (A){{cite web |title=Palmetto's Finest - Boys' Basketball |url=http://www.schsl.org/2008/pf%2008%20Basketball%20Boys.pdf |access-date=2009-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723153830/http://www.schsl.org/2008/pf%2008%20Basketball%20Boys.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-23 |url-status=dead }}{{unreliable source?|date=August 2021|reason=This is just an archived PDF, how is this a reliable source? News articles or MaxPreps would probably be better sources to cite.}}
The boys' basketball team holds the state record for consecutive wins, at 78.
Notable alumni
- Mike Colter – actor
- Alshon Jeffery – NFL wide receiver{{cite news |first=Brian |last=Linder |title=GAMECOCK BOUND: Calhoun County star Alshon Jeffery signs with South Carolina |url=http://www.thetandd.com/articles/2009/02/05/sports/doc4989afab31e14824941093.txt |work=The Times and Democrat |location=Orangeburg, SC |date=2009-02-05 }}
- Phillip Merling – NFL defensive end
- Chris Rumph – former head coach for the high school who spent over 20 years coaching collegiately and in the National Football League (NFL)
References
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Category:Public high schools in South Carolina
Category:Schools in Calhoun County, South Carolina
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