Capital High School (Charleston, West Virginia) school year Enrollment by grade Enrollment by race/ethnicity Enrollment by gender Free lunch eligible: 400 Reduced-price lunch eligible: 64 On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, then New York Senator Hillary Clinton selected Capital as her first high school to visit. The school received national recognition and was featured by several major national news networks and on the AOL.com homepage. Capital High School (Charleston, West Virginia) Capital High School is a public high school located in Charleston, West Virginia, United States. The original high school in the city was Charleston High School, locally known as "The High," serving the entire city. In
Wheeling, West Virginia Government of Virginia from 1861 to 1863, and became the first capital of West Virginia after it seceded from Virginia and was admitted to the Union in its own right in 1863. The growing German population, which included immigrants after the 1848 Revolutions, was firmly anti-slavery. The Germans of Wheeling organized the "First West Virginia Artillery" to oppose the Confederacy and played a role in the initial movement to separate from Virginia. The Germans' culture influenced the city, such as their "German Singing Societies," the first of which began in 1855. Although Wheeling lost its position as state capital in