Belfry High School

Belfry High School, is a school located in Belfry, Kentucky. It is the largest high school in the Pike County Public School System. The school is located in the northeastern region of Pike County, approximately 22 miles northeast of Pikeville, Kentucky and 1 mile south of Williamson, West Virginia. The school moved from Belfry in 2005 to a new site 3 miles north near the West Virginia border in Goody, Kentucky. The school is one of five public high schools in the Pike County Public School System and one of six public high schools in Pike County.HistoryBelfry High School opened in 1923 and has operated at three campuses since then. The school, along with Phelps High School and Pikeville High School, are the only schools in Pike County that have not been formed as a result of consolidation. The school moved to its previous location in Belfry in 1938 and was housed on that campus until 2005. That campus, which now holds Belfry Middle School, is along U.S. Route 119 for.5 miles and consists of the Belfry Area Technology Center at the north end, the Science Building (a three-story multi-use building which held media and science classrooms as well as the school's library), the Main Building (offices, classrooms, cafeteria, drama department), the Special Education building (located at the back of the Main Building), the Music Building, a 2,400-seat gymnasium, an athletic complex, and the football stadium. At this campus, the school used the baseball facilities at nearby Hardy Park to host home games. The 1938 campus was one of the oldest structures in the Pike County Public School System.