About NHS
Our Purpose
National Honor Society is an organization for high schoolers that promotes Leadership, Scholarship, Service, and Character. Our goal is to serve our community through events and charitable acts and to make sure our members are graduation ready. We provide countless opportunities for people to network outside of school so they are ready for the real world.
Our Contributions
- Over 1000 community service hours accumulated over the 2022-2023 school year
- Donated of hundreds of books to multiple non-profit organizations
- Donated many pounds of food to state and national causes
- Collected over 200 bags of trash during the 2022-2023 school year
- Assisted local elementary school with their field day events and helped to tutor students for their state testing
Students collected an average of 19 hours individually
Our History
The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) officially established NHS in 1921. Though many local and regional honor societies existed prior to 1921, no nationwide organization had been founded. Under the leadership of Dr. Edward Rynearson, principal of the Fifth Avenue High School in Pittsburgh, the organization grew from the original Alpha Chapter at the Fifth Avenue School to more than 1,000 chapters by 1930. Equipped with a constitution, an emblem and motto, and a group of dedicated principals as coordinators, the new NHS organization quickly developed into one of the country’s leading educational groups.
