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Prestonsburg High School, located in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, is one of four public schools in the Floyd County School District of eastern Kentucky. The principal is Ted George. Beginning with the 2008-2009 school year, Mr. George will enter his 5th year as principal of Prestonsburg High School making him one of the longest serving principals at the school in recent times.

As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 627 students and 33.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of In 1949, the school and the town was shaken by the sensational murder of one of its cheerleaders. One of the two men initially charged was a member of the Board of Education.

Charges against the Board member were eventually dropped, and the other man was acquitted, leaving the murder unsolved to this day. In 1958, 26 students from the high school and local grade schools died, along with the bus driver, in the Prestonsburg bus disaster.

In terms of death, the accident is tied for the worst bus accident in United States history with the 1988 Carrollton bus disaster, which also occurred in Kentucky, although the Carrollton crash resulted in more injured. Prestonsburg High is a member of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) and home to the Blackcats; the school colors are red, black, and white.

Football games are played on the Josh Francis Memorial Field, but a variety of other sports activities are also offered. In 2006, a Kentucky Court of Appeals judge became embroiled in a recruiting scandal as part of his duties as an assistant coach at the school. The school was fined $6,600. This violation, in addition to two previous violations in as many years, led to a major shake-up in the school's athletic department. The school is now in good standing with the Kentucky High School Athletic Association.

On September 28, 2007, the arraignment of the now former judge on charges resulting from trying to get his son to fight another student was delayed.[1] Prestonsburg is home to an exceptional football program, with the Josh Francis Field retaining the old home field nickname "The Pit".

The athletic field is adjacent Prestonsburg High along Blackcat Alley. Since the current football district-oriented playoff alignment originated, the Blackcats have amassed 15 district titles and 9 regional titles, appearing in 6 State Semi-Finals and 2 Kentucky State Championship games.

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