Northern Vance High School

Northern Vance High School is a high school in North Carolina, located at 293 Warrenton Road in Henderson, North Carolina. The school's mascot is a Viking and the fight song is the Notre Dame Victory March. Northern Vance High School was formerly known as Vance Senior High, but the name was changed in 1990. The name change coincided with the split of the school into two serving a growing Vance County population. Southern Vance High School opened the same year, essentially taking half of Vance Senior High School's students.The school originally opened in 1968, replacing Henderson High School near downtown Henderson. The new school was located approximately four miles North outside the town limits. It was expanded in 1974 adding M and L Suites and a second cafeteria. Most students and faculty affectionately refer to the cafeterias as the "Old" Cafeteria or the "New" Cafeteria, although both are primarily connected.In 1990, the newly minted Northern Vance High School befell violence after one student shot another in the halls. The student survived the shooting. The student who committed the crime calmly walked down the hall after the shooting, placing the gun on then Principal Wayne Adcock's desk, sat down and awaited his arrest by Vance County Sheriff's officials.The shooting made regional and national news headlines. The front page of the Town's Newspaper, The Henderson Daily Dispatch (then published Monday-Saturday in the afternoon), showed the victim being loaded into an ambulance with EMS workers and the school nurse.Notable alumniJason Brown, retired football player center, in the National Football League