Chattanooga High School

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Chattanooga High School was founded in the fall of 1874 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. [1] The school, sometimes called City High School, has evolved into two high schools: the Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts and the Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences.

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City High on 3rd street ceased to exist after the 1963–64 school year, when the school moved to its new site on Dallas Road. That building became Riverside High School that same year and remained so until 1983. The Erlanger School of Nursing occupied the building for two years, 1983–1985. After some major renovation, CSAS opened in the fall of 1986 as a middle school. Grades were added each year until its first graduating class in 1991. Since that time, it has been a K-12 school.

As for the building in North Chattanooga opening in 1964, it remained Chattanooga High School for many years but eventually, during the 1990s, the school became known as Chattanooga High School – Phoenix 3 (Normal Park and Northside were Phoenix 1 and 2). Also within the 1990s, a “school within a school” was formed by creating a magnet program for music, theater, dance, and musical theater. After a few years of being a zoned magnet, CHS became a true magnet around 1999 and programs expanded to include the “creative” arts, rather than just the “performing” arts. The school now houses around 550 students in grades 6–12. The official name is now, and has been since the creative arts inception, Chattanooga High School – Center for Creative Arts.

City High School has never “ceased to exist.” The school took on several side ventures over the years and is still one of the “oldest and best secondary schools in the South” and a school for the entire area. The student body comes from all areas of Hamilton County, as well as North Georgia, Marion County, and Bradley County, just like in the “old days.”" [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Chattanooga High School".
  2. ↑ Thomas Eislestein, Assistant Principal, Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts, August 9, 2010.
  3. ↑ "William E. Bishop Jr., 70, former state assemblyman", Daily Record , January 18, 2003. Accessed January 14, 2022. "William E. Bishop Jr. died suddenly Wednesday morning, Jan. 15, 2003, in Morristown Memorial Hospital. He was 70. Born Sept. 26, 1932, in Greenville, Tenn., he was formerly of Knoxville, Tenn., and was a resident of Rockaway Township since 1965, moving there from West New York.... He graduated from Chattanooga High School in 1950, and attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and City College of New York."

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