Editing Morgantown, West Virginia (section)

===Public schools===
[[File:Morgantown High School in Morgantown, West Virginia LCCN2015631561.tif|thumb|The auditorium entrance of [[Morgantown High School]], established in 1883]]
The city is served by [[Monongalia County Schools]]. Public elementary schools in Morgantown and its surrounding area include Cheat Lake, North, Brookhaven, Ridgedale, Mountainview, Mylan Park, Skyview, Suncrest Elementary, and Eastwood. There are four middle schools: Mountaineer Middle, South, Westwood, and Suncrest Middle.<ref name="MCS Middle Schools">{{cite web|title=Middle Schools|url=http://boe.mono.k12.wv.us/schools/midschools.html|publisher=Monongalia County Schools|access-date=January 8, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515025200/http://boe.mono.k12.wv.us/schools/midschools.html|archive-date=May 15, 2011}}</ref> The city's two high schools are [[University High School (Morgantown)|University High School]], the mascot of which is the Hawks, and [[Morgantown High School]], whose mascot is the Mohigans. The latter's name is that of a non-existent [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribe whose name is a combination of the words Morgantown (MO) High (HIG) Annual (AN), which was the school's yearbook. The Native American mascot and logo were adopted because of the close relation to the name [[Mahican|Mohican]], a real Native American tribe.<ref>{{cite web|title =Morgantown High School – Mohigan Facts – The Mohigan|date =  March 18, 2004|url = http://boe.mono.k12.wv.us/mhs/academics/mascot.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061013181048/http://boe.mono.k12.wv.us/mhs/academics/mascot.html|archive-date = October 13, 2006|access-date = December 15, 2006}}</ref>  Notable Morgantown High School alumni include [[screenwriter]]–[[film director]] [[Lawrence Kasdan]] (class of 1966), actor [[Don Knotts]] (class of 1942), [[college football]] coach [[Tommy Bowden]] (class of 1972), and [[TV]] [[college football]] analyst [[Terry Bowden]] (class of 1974).

As of April 2005, Monongalia County Schools employed 897 professional personnel and 490 service personnel, and carries an enrollment of 10,076 students, including 156 adult students at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center. Three of Monongalia County's 23 schools have earned Exemplary Achievement status, according to the West Virginia Office of Educational Performance Audits' (OEPA) report issued November 2004. In 2004, Suncrest Middle became a National Blue Ribbon School for the [[No Child Left Behind Act]].
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