Ware Shoals School

Front inscription

This school, built in 1926 as Ware Shoals School, was a grammar and high school until 1991 and has been a high school since. A 1951 grammar school on the campus has been a middle school since 1991. The first school in the town opened in 1905. After Ware Shoals Manufacturing Company opened its textile mill in 1906, it sponsored the school. Marion B. Camak (1888-1962) came to Ware Shoals in 1924 and was school superintendent here until he retired in 1955.

Ware Shoals High School

This school designed by J.E. Sirrine & Co. of Greenville, was built at a cost of $160,000. It was dedicated in 1926 by Gov. Thomas G. McLeod and State Superintendent James H. Hope, and had 23 teachers and 750 students when it opened. Riegel Stadium, built in 1935 with federal funds from the Emergency Relief Administration, has hosted many high school, college, and other baseball and football games.