Our School's History

 

In 1845, Norfolk County constructed the first public school in Deep Creek.  It was the second school to be constructed in Norfolk County from funds provided by the General Assembly for public education.  The one-room school was located across from the present day Deep Creek Intermediate School.  The school was closed and destroyed by federal troops during the Civil War.  In 1870, a school was erected on Old Gilmerton Road.  Several years later, a one-room school facing Galberry Road behind and adjacent to Flemming's Store was constructed.  In 1897, a wing was added to separately house the older students.  In 1908, the legislature provided funds for the construction of a one-story brick school on the site of the previous intermediate school.  Schools from the outlying areas were consolidated and students from St. Juliens Creek, Millsville, Grassfield, and Gilmerton were transported by horse-drawn school buses to Deep Creek School.  In 1910, a two-story brick building was constructed on the site of the intermediate school.  The first class of seniors was graduated from Deep Creek High School in 1911.  Building additions were made in 1923, 1947, and 1952.  In 1955, Deep Creek High School was separated from Deep Creek School by the construction of a million dollar secondary building to house grades 7-12 on Deal Drive.

In the 1940's, with the assistance of the Rosenwald Fund, a four-room elementary school was built for black students in the Deep Creek borough.  Black students from Deep Creek attended Providence High School in South Norfolk, which later became incorporated into Carver High School and Gilmerton High School.  Both schools later became incorporated into Crestwood High School when it opened in 1954.  The black elementary schools in Grassfield, Deep Creek, and Millsville were consolidated in the 1950's and were housed in Central Elementary School on Shipyard Road.

In1963, Deep Creek High School became part of the newly formed Chesapeake School System, which resulted from a merger of Norfolk County and the City of South Norfolk.  In 1966, grades 7-8 were shifted from the high school to the junior high, which is today's SECEP school.  In 1979, due to large increases in enrollment at both the high school and junior high school, the high school building on Deal Drive was redesignated a junior high school and a seven million dollar high school located on Margaret Booker Drive was constructed  to house grades 10-12.

The modern, efficient facility has been in use for more than twenty years.  Academic classrooms, vocational training areas, and corridors, as well as the gymnasium, the media center, the computer laboratory and the commons area are well designed for the purposes they serve.  The school was expanded in 1990 with the addition of the new wing serving the Math, Science and Foreign Language departments.  The space was needed due to the addition of the ninth grade.  In the summer of 1998, the school was expanded again to accommodate the current enrollment of approximately 2,000 students.  This new expansion includes improvements to the library, gymnasium, and classrooms for Science, Special Education, Art and Vocational programs.

Mr. Nathan T. Hardee, a graduate of Deep Creek, has been its principal since 1972.  The school's colors are Purple and White and the emblem is the hornet.

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Deep Creek High School Principals
Mr. S. A. MacDonald	1917-1919
Mr. W. S. Brent	1919-1928
Mr. T. P. Chapman	1928-1930
Mr. L. D. Bell	1930-1937
Mr. W. L. Mason	1937-1941
Mr. J. J. Booker, Jr.	1941-1949
Mr. W. L. Jones	1949-1967
Mr. H. C. Laumann	1967-1972
Mr. Nathan T. Hardee	1972-Present

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Deep Creek High School Alma Mater

Hail to thee, Our Alma Mater Loud your praise we sing May our faculty and students Glory to you bring. Deep Creek High School, Loved of old Hark upon the gale Hear the thunder of our chorus Alma Mater, hail.