CHAPEL HILL – The North Carolina High School Board of Directors heard a series of procedural appeals relating to realignment on Tuesday morning and then took action after lengthy deliberation.

There were a total of eight appeals involving 10 schools.

The appeal by Green Hope and Panther Creek involved, among other things, an error with the East Chapel Hill average daily membership numbers that were used in the realignment process. The error with those first month numbers had been confirmed, and had they been submitted correctly East Chapel Hill would have been in the 4-A classification.

As a result, the Board made the decision to move East Chapel Hill into the 4-A classification, and then assign it to Conference 10C in the latest realignment plan. That move of East Chapel Hill into 4-A-- its numbers which were not accurate had them in 3-A--then dropped Douglas Byrd to 3-A and it was assigned to Conference 12C in the 3-A classification.