Woodruff High School is a public secondary school in Woodruff, South Carolina, United States, and is the only high school in Spartanburg County School District 4.[4]
The original Woodruff High School was built in 1908 on East Georgia Street.[1]
The next high school was built in 1925 in downtown Woodruff. It was a Collegiate Gothic building designed by Frank H. Cunningham and Joseph G. Cunningham.[5] The building cost $50,000 at the time, and is nearly 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2); the building includes a 600-seat auditorium. This building was the high school until 1953, when became a junior high school until the 1960s, and an elementary school after that. The city bought the school and converted it into the city hall and police station in 1978.[1][6]
The following high school was opened in September 1953.[1]
On January 11, 1987, Woodruff High School that was opened in 1953 was destroyed by a fire.[7] Rob Johnson, who was a student at the time, describe waking up and seeing "large plumes of smoke filling the sky." After hearing about the fire, American rock band REO Speedwagon hosted a concert at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium to help raise money for the seniors. The band later raised money for the re-building of the school with a concert at Clemson University.[8] The school in use today was completed for the school year beginning on August 13, 1989.[9]
The building was nominated for the National Register of Historic Places as "Woodruff High School" on May 31, 2006.
On August 11, 2022, voters approved a referendum allowing the school district to issue $100 million in general obligation bonds to build a new Woodruff High School.[10] The project broke ground on June 28, 2023. Students of Woodruff Middle School will move into the current high school upon the project's completion.[11] The new building is expected to be complete in late 2025.