The History of Fargo North

When walking around North High School, you don’t really see anything about our history or where we started. In 2022, the Fargo School District will turn 150 years old and we have a large and pretty cool history. With changing names and mascots and adding on more schools, we have been through a lot in the past century and a half.
The oldest record that you can find still in the school is a yearbook called the Cynosure from 1941. This yearbook is from when Fargo only had one public high school called Fargo Central High School. The building for this high school was made in 1918, to replace the old Fargo High School that stopped being used in 1916. The mascot of Fargo Central High was “The Midgets” and every year during homecoming they would crown a new midget king and queen.
In 1966, Fargo Central burned down and the schools we know today, North and South High School, were formed. The school had a lot of the same sports teams. Things like football, cross country, volleyball, wrestling, hockey, track and field, and swimming. There were also a few oddballs including synchronized swimming, water polo and both girls and boys competitive bowling. Some popular clubs have also stuck around, such as debate, thespian society, and student council. A lot of the classes that we have at North have been around since the beginning of the school. Classes like Foods and Arts used to be very popular. Courses like AP Biology weren’t added to the curriculum until 1976.
In the back of the yearbooks you can find memorials to different people from North. When you go online to try to find out more about them you can only really find at what age the staff and students passed away. This really goes to show how much history can just be forgotten.