North Marion High School was completed and opened in September, 1979, and, with over 1,600 students, was at the time one of the largest high schools in West Virginia.

                    The school is a consolidated high school (grades 9 through 12) made up of four former high schools that closed in the consolidation:  Barrackville, Monongah, Mannington and Fairview. 

                    Farmington High School, which closed in 1975 because of structural problems caused by mine subsidence, is often considered to be part of the consolidated group (even though it had been closed prior to the building of the new school).    

                    The four former high schools were converted to middle schools, with all four buildings remaining in current use.

                    North Marion's mascot is the Husky, referred to as the Huskies. Its colors are black and silver. The mascot and colors were chosen by the students of the various consolidated high schools in an election in the spring of 1979.