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East Atlanta High School, 1959-1988; Franklin D. Roosevelt High School, 1947-1985; Fulton High School, 1915-1994; Girls High School, 1872-1947; Harper-Archer High School, 1995-2002; Henry McNeal Turner High School, 1951-1990 [13] Hoke Smith High School, 1947-1985; Joseph Emerson Brown High School, 1947-1992; Luther Judson Price High School ...
Midtown High School, formerly Henry W. Grady High School, is a public high school located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It began as Boys High School and was one of the first two high schools established by Atlanta Public Schools in 1872. In 1947, the school was named after Henry W. Grady, a journalist, orator in the Reconstruction Era.
E. Earl Patton (North Fulton High School) - Atlanta businessman and politician [27] Travis Payne (Northside High School) - choreographer; Christiani Pitts - actress, singer, dancer [28] [29] RuPaul (Northside High School) - drag queen, musician, and actor, full name RuPaul Andre Charles [30] Bobby V - R&B singer; also known as Bobby Valentino [31]
David Tobias Howard with his wife and mother, c. 1900. The school opened in 1923 as an Elementary School. [3] It became a high school in 1948. [2]The school was named for David T. Howard, a former slave who owned Atlanta's largest black-owned undertaking business and founded its first African American owned bank.
The school originated as the boys' military school Marist College High School, and was located in a three-story schoolhouse on Ivy Street, now called Peachtree Center Avenue, in downtown Atlanta. In the 1940s, while it was a military school, the boys wore a blue military uniform with a soft cap, and performed a marching drill routine on the ...
Nehl Horton of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that North Fulton High "draws heavily from" the 287-unit Piedmont Court and East Wesley Apartments, known for hosting various waves of refugees, including from the Cuban Revolution, the Vietnam War, and the Soviet–Afghan War; accordingly it at the time had "a well-developed and successful program for international students."
It was the first public high school for African-Americans in the state of Georgia and the Atlanta Public Schools system. [4] Booker T. Washington High School was transformed into four small schools. Starting in the fall of 2014, the school transitioned back to the original one school, with four assistant principals, one academy leader, and one ...