Oldham County High School (OCHS) is a public high school in Buckner, Kentucky. It was founded in 1953 and has a student body of approximately 1,250 students in 9th through 12th grades. OCHS was given the National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence award in 1987 and 2002. OCHS is perhaps most well-known on a national level as the school that has represented the state of Kentucky in the national finals of the United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) in years, 1993, 1997–2006, and 2009.
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