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When students arrived at the new Dorman High School campus for the first day of school on August 8, they entered a facility that is, inside and out, truly state-of-the-art. The new school features, among many other special amenities, a separate Freshman Campus, built for the exclusive use of Spartanburg County's ninth graders. Area educators urged school designers to create the separate Freshman Campus in an effort to ease the transition from middle school to high school. The main high school facility will house Dorman's 10th - 12th grade students. Both classroom facilities feature the very latest in computer and communications equipment.The new Dorman campus has the capacity to serve 3,500 students.
The new football stadium seats 10,200 (see second and third photos). The reserved seating section features new seats with backs, creating additional comfort for the Cavaliers' heartiest and truest fans. Since neither of the new schools' two tracks surrounds the football field, football fans will have the additional thrill of sitting much closer to the sidelines than was previously possible at the old stadium. Dorman's first home game in the new stadium is scheduled for September 6 against Mauldin. For more information about Dorman High School, please visit www.dormanhigh.org. The site is managed by students at Dorman High School.
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The buildings on the 292-acre tract of land, much of which can be seen from Interstate 26, add great architectural interest and beauty to the area. To a newcomer, the Dorman High School campus might be confused with a small college campus. The sheer size of the campus, combined with the building design of the fine arts center and the layout and available seating in the football stadium, the baseball field, the softball field, and the soccer fields are structures of which any community would be proud.
Ample parking is available at the top of the bowl, and fans will walk down the stadium to reach their seats. The Cavaliers and their Friday night opponents will play on natural turf, thereby sidestepping many of the injuries that result from play on AstroTurf and other artificial turfs. 