Overview
Concord High School (CHS) is a public secondary school located in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States, with a Wilmington postal address. It is one of three high schools in the Brandywine School District. There were 1,084 students enrolled in the fall for the 2019–2020 school year. Mark Mayer is the current principal of Concord High School.
History
CHS opened in 1967 in response to a rapidly rising population that produced too many students for Brandywine High School, then in the Alfred I. duPont District, to handle on its own. Upon opening, it was located on the same campus as Hanby Junior High and taught only ninth and tenth grades. Construction on CHS' own building was delayed due to a worker strike and did not open until January 1970, an entire semester after the planned date and still without its gym, auditorium, and swimming pool completed. During the delay, CHS was forced to leave Hanby and move temporarily into Brandywine High School's building; the two schools taught on a rotating basis: BHS students attended in the morning and CHS students attended in the afternoon.
Athletics
Concord is a member of Flight B of the Blue Hen Conference in the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA); the Raiders compete in Class 2A, District 1 for football. Concord fields a full slate of teams in all three sports seasons, including: crew, cross country, field hockey, football, soccer, volleyball, cheerleading, basketball, track, swimming/diving, wrestling, baseball, golf, lacrosse, and softball.
Concord's Athletic Director is Larry Jacobs. Concord, and all high schools in the Brandywine School District, are partnered with ATI Physical Therapy to provide sports medicine services.
Notable alumni
Don Schiff(born 1955, class of 1974) Musician/rock instrumentalist
Justin Brown (born 1991, class of 2009), CFL wide receiver
Terri Dendy (born 1965), former track and field athlete
Vicki Huber (born 1967), Olympic middle-distance runner
Mary Knisely (born 1959), former middle- and long-distance running; Pan Am champion at 3,000 meters
Luke Matheny (born 1976, class of 1993), Academy Award-winning motion picture director, writer and actor
Scott A.
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