South Oldham High School

South Oldham High School is located in Crestwood, Kentucky and serves pupils in 9th-12th grade. The school's principal is Melissa Woosley. The school's mascot is the Dragon, which is green to reflect the school colors of green and gray, as well as navy and white for accent colors. South Oldham opened in 1989 because Oldham County High School had become overcrowded.Academics The school annually sends several students to the Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program and the Kentucky Governor's School For The Arts. The Draconium, the student-run yearbook, and The Dragon's Tale, the student-run newspaper, have won numerous Kentucky High School Journalism Association (KHSJA) awards under the direction of their adviser Cindi Reedy. The school's Advanced Placement BC Calculus Course, taught by Larry McCloskey, regularly has 100% of its students score a 3 (passing) or better on the exam. Certified staff: 67; guidance counselors: 3; media center Staff: 2 certified media specialists, plus a clerk; school resource officer:1 Schedule: seven 50-minute periods Governed by: School Based Decision Making CouncilAwardsSOHS was included in the 2009 Silver Award list of US News & World Report.SOHS made the top 1500 (number 753) high schools on Newsweek magazine's 2009 list of the top US high schools. This ranking put them in the top 6% of the public high schools in the nation.South Oldham High School was named as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence 13 years ago.SOHS met 10 of 10 target goals in the 2008 Yearly Progress Report for "No Child Left Behind".In 2010, the journalism program at SOHS was awarded Grand Champion at the yearly Kentucky High School Journalism Association (KHSJA) convention for the second year in a row. The yearbook (The Draconium), the newspaper (The Dragon's Tale) and the broadcast journalism classes all took first place in the AAA division that year. This makes SOHS's journalism program the best high school journalism program in the state of Kentucky. The 2010 contest marked SOHS' fourth Grand Champion award in five years (2006, 2007, and 2009).