Concord High School is a public high school in Dunlap, a census-designated place in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. It serves Dunlap, small sections of southern Elkhart and a small section of northern Goshen.SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Elkhart County, IN
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Statistics

In the 2020-21 school year, total enrollment is at 1,679 students. Concord High School has a diverse student population with Hispanic being the largest minority population. In the 2021-22 school year the ethnicity breakdown was: White - 44.0% Hispanic - 41.5% Black - 7.9% Asian - 1.0% Multi-racial - 5.4%

History

The school was host to President Barack Obama's first order of business meeting outside of Washington, D.C., as well as the site of one of his campaign rallies before the

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Music

Concord's music department includes several choirs, two string orchestras, three jazz bands, four concert bands, one of the largest pep bands in the area, and a championship marching band. The marching band is known as the Concord Marching Minutemen. Since the inception of the ISSMA marching band state finals in 1983, the band has only failed to qualify for the state championship twice, in 2000 and again in 2019. The band holds

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Class B state championship titles from 1992, 2003, 2005, 2011 and 2015 The book "American Band" by Kristen Laine follows the Marching Minutemen through their 2004 state runner-up season. The marching band has appeared in the Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Orange Bowl parades and was in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1974, 1978, 1985, 1992, 1997, 2007, and 2013. Concord High School was the first high school recognized by Conn-Selmer as an All-American school, an award to "recognize the most outstanding high school instrumental music programs in America."

Athletics

Concord High School offers various sports, including football, cross country, golf, tennis, soccer, basketball, wrestling, swimming, track and field, baseball, lacrosse, and hockey for boys, and volleyball, cross country, soccer, tennis, cheerleading, swimming, track and field, softball, and lacrosse for girls.Concord High School
Concord's athletic teams compete in the Northern Lakes Conference and in the 5A classification, competing in Sectional 10 in football and Sectional 4 in all other class sports.

Drama department

Concord's drama department produces a straight play and a musical in November and March, respectively, held in the Beickman Performing Arts Center.

Notable alumni

Dairese Gary Dairese Layton Gary (born October 21, 1988, pronounced da-REECE) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball at New Mexico, where he was named First-team All- MWC in 2010 and 2011. High school career Gary attended ...

, Former NCAA basketball player for the New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team *

Franko House Frankie Stanton House (born September 19, 1994) is an American basketball player who last played for the Alaska Aces of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). He also played American football as a tight end. He played college basketball at ...

, basketball player and American football tight end *

Shawn Kemp Shawn may refer to: *Shawn (given name) *Shawn (surname) See also * Sean * Shaun Shaun is an anglicized spelling of the Irish name Seán. Alternative spellings include Shawn, Sean and Shawne. Notable persons with the given name include: Peop ...

, Former

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basketball player for the Seattle SuperSonics,

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, Portland Trail Blazers and

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Jason Spriggs Jason Michael Spriggs (born May 17, 1994) is an American football offensive tackle who is a free agent. He played college football at Indiana. Early years Spriggs was born to Rick and Michelle Spriggs on May 17, 1994, in Elkhart, Indiana. He at ...

, offensive lineman in the National Football League, selected by the

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in the 2nd round of the

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Zach Horner
News Reporter at local NBC affiliate WNDU-TV.

References

External links

Concord High School Home Page
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