Southern Alamance High School is a public, coeducational high school located in Graham, North Carolina. It is one of seven high schools in the Alamance-Burlington School System.HistoryIn 1958, a school bond was passed to consolidate Alexander Wilson, Sylvan, E. M. Holt and Eli Whitney into one high school. The original plans for Southern High School were to accommodate eight hundred students with the guidance and leadership of Mr. L. M. Adcock as the founding principal. Although the location of the school is not centrally located to those four locations, the property was donated for the purpose of construction a new school in the southern part of the county.The doors of the new high school officially opened on December 12, 1960 as the Southern High School Confederates. The first few years, the school operated without D building which was completed in 1965 and current auditorium which was added in the late 1960s. The 1960s hosted a lot of firsts for the new established high school. Miss Carolyn Layell was named the first Miss Southern. The year 1967 displayed Southern’s first marching band, while 1968 brought in the introduction of College Preparatory classes.The 1970s brought new identity to the Southern High School community while Alamance County Schools transitioned the culturally sensitive mascot of the Confederates out and revealed the new mascot of as the Patriots. One misconception that commonly occurs is that the crosswalk sidewalks in senior circle and the area between the office and media center are remaining from the days of the Confederates. These exist because students wore out the grass as they made their way to class. Cement was laid to make sidewalks mirror the traffic patterns of students.
