York High School is a York County School Division high school located in Yorktown in York County, Virginia on U.S. Route 17 about 3 miles south of Yorktown.The school was opened in 1954 and currently enrolls over one thousand students. Athletic teams compete in the Virginia High School League's AA Bay Rivers District in Region I. The school is the home of the school division's television station and offers television production courses in the curriculum. The school is also the home of the York River Academy (a charter school that focuses on collaborative education teaching computer repair, cabling, and web design) and is the YCSD site for the International Baccalaureate Programme.York High School was once home to the most powerful high school radio station in the United States, WYCS 91.5.HistoryYork High School opened in 1954 as the public school for grades 6 through 12 for the white children of the area, while the York County Training School in the Grafton area of York County would be used by black students. Before York High School opened, students attended other neighboring schools: Poquoson, Magruder in Williamsburg, and Morrison in Newport News, later to be known as Warwick High School. Black students in Grades 1 - 12 attended the newly constructed James Weldon Johnson School. York High School issued its first student yearbook, then titled "The York Bugle," in 1955.
