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The Jefferson School is a historic building in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.It was built to serve as a segregated high school for African-American students. The school, located on Commerce Street in the downtown Starr Hill neighborhood, was built in four sections starting in 1926, with additions made in 1938–39, 1958, and 1959.
It is the sole high school of the School District of Jefferson, which is headquartered within the same building complex, with address 206 South Taft Ave. [4] The school district's Jefferson Middle School is located across South Taft Avenue, and has address 501 South Taft Avenue. [5] [6]
By 1912, the wood-framed, one-room schoolhouse had grown to an enrollment of 54. By 1929, grades 1 through 12 had been established and the school was renamed Metairie High School. After East Jefferson High opened in 1955, it was converted to a junior high school and Vernon C. Haynes became the principal. [4]
Jefferson Schools, a school district in Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan; Jefferson School (Cape Girardeau, Missouri), a historic school building; Jefferson School of Social Science (1944-1956), a New York City adult education and training facility of the Communist Party USA; Jefferson Schoolhouse, Indian Hill, Ohio
Jefferson High School graduation demonstrates an ethnic diversity which is rare for Portland, which has been referred to as "the whitest major city" in the United States. [ 13 ] In 2009–10, Jefferson was the only school in Oregon to have a majority of African American students. [ 14 ]
Thomas Jefferson High School, or simply Jefferson High School, is one of the two high schools in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States Independent School District No. 271. It is located at 102nd Street and France Avenue on the suburb's southwest side, and is part of the Bloomington Public Schools district. [ 2 ]
The new Jefferson High School was dedicated May 24, 1970. The old Jeff building on North Ninth Street served from 1970 to 1982 as Tippecanoe Junior High School (Chargers) and was later occupied by Ivy Tech Community College ; most recently it has been converted to apartments for the elderly.
Thomas Jefferson Prep School was founded in 1946 by Robin McCoy, Charles E. Merrill Jr. (son of a founder of Merrill Lynch), and Graham Spring.They aimed to create a school whose governance rested with the faculty, patterned after the colleges that comprise Oxford and Cambridge Universities.