Lexington High School is a public high school in Lexington, South Carolina that provides education for ninth through twelfth grades, serving the communities of Lexington, Lake Murray, and West Lexington. The school's athletic mascot is the Wildcat. Lexington was the first high school and only school in South Carolina to be twice selected as the Carolina First Palmetto's Finest and the first to be named a Unified School. It is an International Baccalaureate World School.
Activities
Band
The Lexington High School Bands is a comprehensive performing arts and leadership program made up of over 200 students participating year-round in performance and competitive ensembles. Course credit offerings include Concert Band I, Symphonic Band II, Wind Ensemble III, Jazz Band I, II, and III, Percussion Techniques I and IV, Marching Band with Physical Education 1, and Color Guard I, II, III, and IV. Additional competitive performing groups include marching band, three winter guard ensembles, and a concert percussion ensemble. The Lexington Wind Ensemble has performed at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival, and awarded the Honor Band at the Grand National Adjudicators Invitational. The Wind Ensemble has performed at the Georgia, Kentucky, and South Carolina Music Educators Association Conferences as well as the University of South Carolina Band Clinic in Columbia. The marching band has been named South Carolina State 5A Champions five times. The marching band has been a consistent finalist, receiving silver and bronze medals at SCBDA 4A and 5A State Championships since 1985.. The "Cat Band" has performed at many local and national parades including the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Tournament of Roses Parade, and the London New Years Parade. The marching band has been a Bands of America Regional and Atlanta Super Regional finalist five times and won the Bands of America Regional Class AAA Championship in Johnson City, TN in 1999.
Feeder patterns
The following middle schools feed into Lexington High School:
Lexington High School split in 2000 with the opening of White Knoll High School. The new school alleviated overcrowding and re-introduced 9th Grade to Lexington's campus for the first time since 1993 when the freshman class was moved to two middle schools to accommodate for rapid growth in the Lexington area. White Knoll High School is located south of the Town of Lexington, largely serving the Red Bank community. A rivalry formed with teams competing annually in at least 14 sports, replacing the decades long Lake Murray "dam rivalry" between Lexington and Irmo High School. In the Fall of 2013, Lexington High School split again. The new school, River Bluff High School, is located in northeast Lexington serving the Town of Lexington, Oak Grove, and parts of Lake Murray and the City of West Columbia.
