I. C. Norcom High School

I. C. Norcom High School is a public high school in Portsmouth, Virginia. It is administered by Portsmouth City Public Schools. The school colors are maroon and grey, and the mascot is the Greyhounds. The school was named after Israel Charles Norcom, its first supervising principal.

I. C. Norcom High School
Location
1801 London Boulevard Portsmouth , Virginia 23704
Coordinates	36°50′9.9″N 76°19′11.1″W
Information
Former name	High Street School (1913– )
Type	Public High School
Founded	1878
School district	Portsmouth City Public Schools
Superintendent	Elie Bracy III
Principal	Teesha Sanders
Teaching staff	79.35 (FTE)[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,092 (2017–18)[1]
Student to teacher ratio	13.76[1]
Language	English
Campus	City
Color(s)	Maroon and Grey
Athletics conference	Virginia High School League (3A East Region)
Mascot	Greyhounds
Rival	Manor High School Churchland High School Booker T. W. High School
Website	nhs.ppsk12.us

I. C. Norcom High School is at 1801 London Boulevard between the revitalized downtown and the Midtown Tunnel. It was opened September 1997 under the leadership of Walter Taylor. The first graduating class of the new location was the class of 1998, but the first graduating class that attended four years at this school was the class of 2002.

Third Building

Norcom's football team also won the 1993 state championship, defeating Langley High School 19-0.^[2] Norcom's boys basketball team, which won the 2010 and 2011 VSHL State Championship in Division AAA. The Greyhounds won four straight championships from 2014 to 2017, the first two in division 4A, the others in Division 3A.^[3]

I. C. Norcom has a well-decorated NJROTC unit. They came in first place in the 2013 Fishbowl parade. They earned top spots in many current competitions and events.^[4]

Notable alumni

• E. J. Josey (1940), African-American activist^[5]
• James W. Holley III (1944), former mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia^[6]
• Ruth Brown (1945), singer known as the Queen of R&B^[7]
• Junius Kellogg (1946), basketball player^[8]
• George Moody (1955), college football coach^[9]
• Alonzo Short (1957), former director of the Defense Information Systems Agency^[10]
• Linda B. Hayden (1967), mathematician
• George Evans (1997), basketball player^[11]
• Julius Gregory (2006), football player^[12]
• Vernon Macklin (2006), NBA player^[13]
• Melvin Gregg (2009), actor
• Darius Theus (2009), basketball player^[14]
• Dorian Finney-Smith (2011), NBA player^[15]
• Joe Powell (2012), football player^[16]
• Travis Fields Jr. (2016), basketball player^[17]