Tates Creek High School

Tates Creek High School
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Address
1111 Centre Parkway Lexington, KY 40517
Coordinates
Information
School type	Public
Founded	1965
School district	Fayette County Public Schools
Principal	Sam Meaux
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	~ 1750 (2007)
Nickname	Commodores and Lady Commodores
Newspaper	The Masthead
Website	www.tchs.fcps.net

Tates Creek High School (TCHS) is a public school in Lexington, Kentucky. It is located at 1111 Centre Parkway with a ZIP code of 40517. It is in southeastern Lexington between Gainesway and Southeastern Hills Subdivisions. The school is one of five high schools in the Fayette County Public Schools district. It is the only high school in Fayette County to have the International Baccalaureate Programme.

History

Tates Creek High School was built in 1965 as the last of three schools on the Tates Creek Campus. (Tates Creek Elementary School and Tates Creek Middle School being the other two.) In 1993, Tates Creek High underwent renovations to significantly to increase its size.

Athletics

The TCHS teams are known as the Commodores with the school colors being maroon and white. The athletic teams and organizations associated with TCHS are:

• Baseball
• Basketball (Men and Women)
• Cheerleading
• Cross Country (Men and Women)
• Dance Team
• Football
• Golf (Men and Women)
• Lacrosse (Men)
• Soccer (Men and Women)
• Softball (Women)
• Swimming and Diving (Men and Women)
• Tennis (Men and Women)
• Track and Field (Men and Women)
• Volleyball (Women)
• Marching Band (Men and Women)
• Wrestling
• Lacrosse (Men)

State championships

• Baseball - 1978, 1980, 1986
• Cheerleading - 1989, 1997
• Football - 1972, 1978 (4A at large)
• Men's Golf - 1980
• Men's Gymnastics - 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
• Women's Gymnastics - 1969, 1971, 1979, 1980
• Men's Soccer - 1978, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1988
• Women's Tennis - 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1982, 1983
• Men's Track - 1973
• Lacrosse (Division II) - 2007, 2012
• Women's Soccer - 2012

Organizations and clubs

• Academic Team
• Maroon Platoon (student section)
• Anime Club
• Band
• Beta Club
• Chorus
• Color Guard
• Drama Club
• Fellowship of Christian Athletes (F.C.A.)
• Future Business Leaders of America (F.B.L.A)
• Gay Straight Alliance (G.S.A)
• Harambee Club
• Hobo Table
• Intramurals
• Lacrosse
• Masthead Newspaper
• National Honor Society
• Orchestra
• Outdoors Club
• Political Round Table Club (P.R.T)
• Recycling Club
• Spanish Club
• Speech Team
• The Black/White Camaraderie Club (TBWCC)
• Student Council
• STLP (Student Technology Leadership Program)
• Technology Student Association (TSA)
• Yearbook

Library media center

Tates Creek High School's Library Media Center uses a custom Dewey-free classification system as opposed to the traditional Dewey Decimal System. Tates Creek's library is arranged in categories based on the existing collection and assigns words in the place of numbers to label the materials. The new system was unveiled in August 2009.

Notable alumni

• David Akers a football player of the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL.
• John Douglas (graduated 1973), conductor and music educator
• Darrin Horn, former NCAA basketball player, and former men's head coach at Western Kentucky University and the University of South Carolina.
• Kevin Jarvis, former Major League Baseball pitcher, currently a scout for the San Diego Padres
• Brian Littrell, of the Backstreet Boys.

External links

• Tates Creek High School's Official Web Site
• Tates Creek High School's Library Media Center
• Fayette County Public School District Website