Girls High School (Atlanta)

Girls' High School
Location
745 Rosalia Street SE Atlanta, Georgia United States
Information
Type	Public
Established	1872
School district	14th
Faculty	39 teachers
Grades	9-12
Campus size	104 rooms
Campus type	Urban

Girls' High School was one of seven schools opened in 1872 as part of the original public school system in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.^[1]^[2]

Girls' High began in the John Neal/William Lyon Mansion, used by General William T. Sherman as his headquarters during his occupation of Atlanta. The site of the mansion at Mitchell and Washington Streets is now occupied by City Hall.

A superb school academically, Girls' High was the only public high school in Atlanta exclusively for girls. Seventy-one girls received diplomas from the school at the graduation exercises in May 1911.^[3] In 1919, two graduates received scholarships for Barnard College.^[4]

In 1925, Girls' High School moved into one of 18 new buildings in the 14th district, paid for by a massive bond issue. The school boasted the following amenities:

104 rooms including science halls, laboratories, a business department, sewing rooms, a library, an art department, music room, and outdoor classrooms on the third level
A model apartment containing a living/dining room, bedroom, bath and kitchenette
20 classrooms and individual offices for 39 teachers
A school bank cage, part of the business department, which encouraged the girls to save and simultaneously gave them an opportunity to learn the banking business

In 1947 Atlanta high schools became co-educational. Renamed Roosevelt High School for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Girls' High School continued until 1985, when it was combined with Hoke Smith Technical School. A new school building was established on Glenwood Avenue, just below the old school buildings, where it still stands.^[5]

References

↑ Franklin M. Garrett. Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s. University of Georgia Press 2011 p 795
↑ THE ATLANTA GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Atlanta Constitution, Dec 23, 1873
↑ GRADUATING CLASS OF THE ATLANTA GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL. Atlanta Constitution, May 24, 1911
↑ Products of the Girls' High School. Atlanta Constitution, Aug 3, 1919
↑ City of Atlanta: Roosevelt High School (Girls' High)

Public schools in Atlanta

High schools	Carver Commercial Douglass Girls' Grady Mays North Atlanta South Atlanta M. H. Jackson Therrell Washington

Middle schools	Brown Bunche Coan Harper-Archer Inman Kennedy King Long Parks Price Sutton Sylvan Hills Turner Young

Elementary schools	Adamsville Beecher Hills Benteen Bethune Blalock Bolton Academy Boyd Brandon Burgess/Peterson Campbell Capitol View Cascade Centennial Place Cleveland Ave. Connally Continental Colony Cook Deerwood Academy Dobbs Dunbar East Lake Fain Fickett Finch Garden Hills Gideons Grove Park Heritage Academy Herndon Hill Hope Humphries Hutchinson Jackson Jones Kimberley Lin Miles Morningside Oglethorpe Parkside Perkerson Peyton Forest Rivers Scott Slater Smith D. H. Stanton F. L. Stanton Thomasville Heights Toomer Towns Usher-Collier Heights Venetian Hills Waters West Manor White Whitefoord Williams Woodson

Non-traditional schools	APS/CEP School Alonzo A. Crim Open Campus High School West End Academy

Charter schools	Achieve Academy of Atlanta Atlanta Charter Middle School Charles R. Drew Charter School KIPP Academy Neighborhood Charter School SIAT Tech High School BEST Academy C. S. King Academy University Community Academy

Sports facilities	Lakewood Stadium Grady Stadium

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Coordinates: 33°44′19″N 84°21′48″W / 33.738744°N 84.363437°W / 33.738744; -84.363437

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