page_title: Decatur High School (Alabama)
section_title: Athletics
hierarchical_section_title: Decatur High School (Alabama) / Athletics
caption_attribution_description: English: Self taken picture of front of Ogle Stadium.
context_page_description: Decatur High School is a public high school in Decatur, Alabama, United States. It is one of two high schools in the Decatur City School District. Decatur High offers technical, academic, and Advanced Placement programs, as well as dual enrollment with the John C. Calhoun Community College System.
  Decatur High, along with southwestern Decatur's Austin High School, were the first International Baccalaureate schools in Alabama north of Birmingham, Alabama. Starting the 2017-2018 school year, Decatur High will no longer continue the IB program.
context_section_description: Decatur High's football and soccer programs play at the 9,000 seat Ogle Stadium at the southern end of the campus. The stadium, owned by the Decatur City Schools, is named for a former Decatur High coach, and Alabama Sports Hall of Famer, H. L. "Shorty" Ogle, who led the Red Raiders from 1933 to 1963. The high school's sports teams often use the field as a practice field.
  Prior to 1949, the Decatur football team played at the 3,000-person capacity Benson Field that is now a part of Rhodes Ferry Park along the shores of the Tennessee River next to the old Riverview High School.
  Prior to 2018, when Austin High relocated and got a stadium of its own, both of the high schools in Decatur played their home games in the stadium.  The one exception was the Decatur vs. Austin game.  In that case, one team sat on the away side while the other occupied the home side.  The schools alternated each year. This football game usually sold out the stadium, and brought in crowds of over 10,000 to watch the city's major rivalry.
caption: Ogle Stadium
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