Southern Guilford High School was founded in 1930 in the Sumner area of Guilford County, North Carolina. It operates on a block, college-styled schedule (4 classes each semester) as opposed to the traditional bell schedule that has 6 periods year long. For the 2014-2015 school year, Southern has an enrollment of 1220, grades 9-12, and 70 teachers. http://sghs.gcsnc.com/pages/Southern_Guilford_High/About_Us/About_UsColors and MascotSouthern Guilford's colors are maroon and gold. Its mascot is the Storm. Southern's former mascot was the Indian, but in 2004 the Guilford County Board of Education voted to retire the Indian mascot.Southern AcademyIn 2005 Southern Guilford was turned into a magnet school for the study of agriscience, education, and medicine. Students are able to explore the fields of pre-medicine, sports medicine, nursing, biotechnology, and agriscience research, botany and horticulture science, veterinary technology and elementary-, middle-, and upper-grades education. Preset course schedules not only reflect NC graduation standards, but also incorporate Honors and AP courses in the student-selected specialized area of the Advanced Sciences or Education strand. Fifteen credits of the total coursework are academy-designated classes required to graduate Southern Guilford’s Academy. The students in the Academy also get priority, in regards to class registration, over the students who actually attend their own district school. Also, people actively switch to Southern in an attempt at a higher class ranking, due to the small size of the original student body population.
