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Charlton County High School

high school in Georgia, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5086294 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charlton County High School is a public high school located in Folkston, Georgia, United States. The school is part of the Charlton County School District, which serves Charlton County.

Athletics

Charlton County has won four state championships in football (1999, 2004, 2005, and 2006).

It won its first state championship in Class A Baseball in 2013, and won a second in 2014. CCHS won its third state championship in Class 2A Division 2 in 2023.

Charlton County Indians won three state championships in track, in 1995, 2005, and 2006.

Charlton County Maidens won their first State Championship in Track in 2024.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Charlton County High School” as high school in Georgia, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Charlton, County and High.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2004, 2005, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Charlton, County and High providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Charlton County High School”, the useful work is to connect “high school in Georgia, United States” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5086294. Authority coordinates are 30.846, -82.002. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charlton County High School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.