King's Fork High School

Infobox School
name= King's Fork High School


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streetaddress= 351 Kings Fork Road
city= Suffolk
state= Virginia
zipcode= 23434
country= USA
url= [http://www.spsk12.net/schools/kfhs/ Official Site]
district= Suffolk City Public Schools
superintendent= Dr. Milton Liverman
principal= Daniel Ward III.
assistant_principals= Tawana Ford
J. Chris Quattlebaum
Elke Boone
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fundingtype= Public
schooltype= high school
grades= 9–12
language= English
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feeders= King's Fork Middle School
John F. Kennedy Middle School
campus= Suburban
mascot= Bulldogs
colors= Maroon and Vegas Gold ██
founded= 2003
capacity= 1,800
enrollment= 1,524
enrollment_as_of= 2006-07
rival= Lakeland High School Nansemond River High School
conference= Virginia High School League AAA Eastern Region Southeastern District
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King's Fork High School is a fully accredited public high school located in Suffolk, Virginia. It is administered by Suffolk City Public Schools. The school colors are maroon and Vegas gold, and the official mascot is the Bulldogs. King's Fork was founded in 2003, and was designed by the architectural firm of Ripley Rodriguez Maddox Motley. It was commissioned by Suffolk City Public Schools due to a wide spread economic expansion in sprawl in the western Hampton Roads area.

Due to zoning, students at King's Fork High are drawn from the boroughs of Crittenden, Hobson, Eclipse, Chuckatuck, Lake Prince, and King's Fork, as well as from parts of downtown Suffolk.

Building design

According to Ripley Rodriguez Maddox Motley, "Each house contains space for assistant principal, guidance counselor, teacher work areas, general classrooms, science labs, and resource spaces in addition to two to three specialized career/technical subjects. A guidance suite was also included near Administration for flexibility in future guidance arrangements. Science labs are designed as generically as possible with only Chemistry having a necessary uniqueness. Each pair of science lecture spaces shares a wet lab and preparation area separated by operable partitions. Specialty subjects such as Agriculture, Work/Family Studies, Health, JROTC, and Liberal Arts that are not suited for location within houses are properly placed according to need and required access. Instructional areas typically share a small computer lab. The small lab requires less building area but offers more computers per classroom when time-sharing is utilized."

Curriculum

King's Fork High School offers an extensive range of courses at core, honors, and Advanced Placement levels, in addition to various dual enrollment classes offered through the Hobbs campus of Paul D. Camp Community College, also located in Suffolk, and through Tidewater Community College. In addition to academic courses, King's Fork High offers an impressive and prestigious range of agricultural and resource management courses, in keeping with the demographic of Suffolk's primary economic background.

Due to the nature of student interests at the school, only certain core subjects are offered at the AP level at King's Fork, and the arts department often has too few students for courses in music theory or other such classes. However, beginning in the 2008-2009 school year, King's Fork will offer courses beginning at the freshman level through the IB (International Baccalaureate) program, in addition to its current curriculum.

Extracurricular activities

King's Fork High has an athletic program; however, due to the school's relative new status, few of the programs have yet to build up to a successful level. The most notable of these are men's and women's varsity basketball teams, which have broken through to the district and regional level.

The first extracurricular program to achieve state-wide recognition from King's Fork was the drama program, which won second place at the 2006 AAA VHSL Theater Festival, under the direction of former drama teacher Clyde Berry.

The King's Fork High School Mighty Marching Bulldogs have risen to regional, statewide, and national prominence while becoming the Group 1 Champion for The Tournament of Bands Chapter XII (All of Virginia and North Carolina) back to back in 2006 and 2007. This honor has qualified them as a National Finalists both years at the Atlantic Coast Chapionships in Scranton, PA (2006)and Dover, DE (2007). The King's Fork band program is under the direction of Mr. Brian Webb, and has quickly earned the reputation of one of the premier band programs in the Hampton Roads region.

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