Magoffin County High School

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Magoffin County High School (MCHS) is a public education high school located in Salyersville, Kentucky in Magoffin County. MCHS is the only High School in the county and progressed from previous versions of Magoffin County's High Schools. Magoffin County's previous High School, The Magoffin County Institute was Salyersville's first high school, and was founded in 1908 by Reverend A. C. Harlowe. Before the 1970's, the present day buildings Magoffin County High School is located in was known as the Salyersville High School. The school mascot is the Hornet.

Starting in 2004, Magoffin County High School teamed up with Salyersville's local cable provider, Howard Cable, to create Magoffin County Schools Television (MCS-TV). The channel's programming includes school athletics games, club created programs, field trip memorial videos and other original programming focused on Magoffin County's public schools.

On Thursday, November 11th, 2006, a 15-year-old Magoffin County High School freshman was taken into custody after admitting to a suicide hotline that he and others had compiled "a verbal hit list" to kill about half a dozen people, including a teacher, a security guard and three or four students. The student said that others had been "picking on him and picking on him."[1]

1 Career & Technical Development
2 Clubs
3 Sports
4 Notable Alumni
5 External links

[edit] Career & Technical Development

Adjacent to the Magoffin County High School is the Magoffin County Career & Technical Center (MCCTC). The career development offered by MCCTC include Electricity, Carpentry, Welding, Computing and Horticulture, among other things.

[edit] Clubs

Magoffin County High School offers many clubs to its students. These include 4-H, Academic Team, Art Club, Band, CYC, FBLA, FCCLA, FFA, Girl's Club, Horse Club, HOSA, JKG, Key Club, Mu Alpha Theta, Peer Tutors, PSI, SADD, Science Club, Spirit Club, STLP, Upward Bound, Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) and the Yearbook Staff.

[edit] Sports

Magoffin County High School offers many extra-curricular sports activities. These include Boy's Baseball, Boy's and Girl's Basketball, Cheerleading, Boy's and Girl's Cross Country Running, Dance Team, American Football, Girl's Fast Pitch Softball, Golf, Boy's & Girl's Tennis, Boy's and Girl's Track Running and Girl's Volleyball.