Ashley Ridge High School
Ashley Ridge High School is a secondary school located in Dorchester County, South Carolina, United States. It is the newest high school in Dorchester School District Two. The school opened in August 2008.
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9800 Delemar Highway 29485 United States | |
Coordinates | 32°55′27″N 80°14′1″W |
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Type | Public |
Established | 2008 |
School district | Dorchester School District Two |
Principal | Brooke Matthews |
Staff | 123.50 (FTE)[1] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Number of students | 2,265 (2019–20)[1] |
Student to teacher ratio | 18.34[1] |
Color(s) | Cardinal and gold |
Song | "Sandstorm" |
Mascot | Swamp Fox |
Rival | Summerville,[2] Fort Dorchester[3] |
Website | www |
Sport
The Ashley Ridge High School athletics department offers the following sports:
- Men's tennis
- Women's tennis
- Men's golf
- Women's golf
- Men's soccer
- Women's soccer
- Men's cross country running
- Women's cross country running
- Men's track and field
- Women's track and field
- Men's football
- Men's basketball
- Women's basketball
- Men's baseball – 1 state championship, 1 lowerstate championship
- Women's softball – 1 lowerstate championship
- Men's wrestling – 1 lowerstate championship
- Women's volleyball
- Men's swimming
- Women's swimming
- Women's cheerleading – 1 lowerstate championship
Band
The ARHS winter ensembles are the first teams to achieve state titles in ARHS school history. The winter guard won state in 2010, 2012, and 2013, and the indoor percussion ensemble won state in 2010, 2011, and 2013.
Facilities
The school has a lunch room, auditorium, media center, gymnasium, mini gym, weight room and administrative offices. The school is divided, with most of the academic classes in the "E"-shaped building that makes up the front half of the campus and most extracurricular classes and the arts hallway in the back half.
In the 2014–2015 school year, construction began on an extension of the Fine Arts hallway and the parking lots.
References
- "Ashley Ridge High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
- "Summerville/Ashley Ridge Football Rivalry". www.maxpreps.com. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- Scene, Roger Lee Journal. "No. 1 Fort Dorchester rolls again, 70-7 past Ashley Ridge". Post and Courier. Retrieved 2018-08-09.