South Charleston High School is a public high school grades 9 through 12 located south of the Kanawha River, west of the city of Charleston, in the city of South Charleston's Spring Hill neighborhood. The School mascot is the Black Eagle and the enrollment is approximately 1,200 students. SCHS is a Class AAA school, which is the highest enrollment classification of high school sports in West Virginia. South Charleston is one of only a few schools in the state of West Virginia that has been in existence for more than 75 years, along with Huntington High School, Sissonville High School, Parkersburg High School, Morgantown High School, Martinsburg High School, and Woodrow Wilson High School. The Black Eagles football team went 14-0 and won the 2008 Class AAA State title in a 39-8 win over George Washington High School on December 6, 2008.
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