Adair County High School (Columbia, Kentucky)

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Adair County High School
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Location
526 Indian Drive
Columbia, KY
Information
Type Public
School district Adair County Schools
Principal Troy Young
Grades 9-12
Color(s) Red & Royal Blue
Mascot Indian
Website Adair County High School Website

Adair County High School is a U.S. high school (grades 9 to 12) in the small town of Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky. It is the county's only high school.

In 2005 the school had some 746 students and 45 teachers, and was eligible for Title One support. 96% of the students were white, and the remainder included African-American, Middle Eastern and Chinese students.

The school has a very good band program. The marching band's record boasts 18 KMEA State Championships, and were named BOA National Champions in their class twice(2005,2007). Also, the band marched in the prestigious 2009 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The current band has 85-90 members and is directed by Tom Case with assistant Matt Emerson.

The ACHS Academic Team placed top Eight in the Kentucky Association for Academic Competition's (KAAC) 2009 state finals. They have been to the National Academic Quiz Tournament's nationals competition once in 2008 and have been invited multiple times.

The ACHS Future Problem Solving team has had frequent top ten finishes at the KAAC state finals competition, and has gone on to the Future Problem Solving Program International Conference several times during the last few years.

The school also has two very good cheerleading squads. Both the Varsity Red & Blue squads have had a "clean sweep" of all their competitions this year. Just winning KAPOS Regional’s in the Traditional & Super Large Varsity Divisions, they are headed to the state competition in Bowling Green, Kentucky at Western Kentucky University. The blue squad came away from the 2008 CANAM International Cheerleading Competition in Myrtle Beach, SC, with the most prestigious award given, the American Cheerleader Editor's Choice Award.

ACHS had an outstanding German program from 1997-2000 under the instruction of Mr. Erwin Heinrich Lepiarczyk II. Two pupils earned first place honors in the 1999 state German speaking competition sponsored by the Kentucky Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

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