Jenkins High School

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Jenkins High School
Herschel Vespasian Jenkins High School
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Address
Jenkins High School
1800 East Derenne Avenue

,
Georgia
31406

United States
Coordinates 32°01′21″N81°04′58″W / 32.022389°N 81.082877°W / 32.022389; -81.082877
Information
Type Public
Opened1956(68 years ago) (1956) (rebuilt 2021)
School boardSavannah-Chatham County School Board
School district Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools
CEEB code 112682
PrincipalHeather Handy
Teaching staff70.90 (FTE) [1]
Grades9-12
Student to teacher ratio14.84 [1]
Campus size1,052 (2018-19) [1]
Color(s)Crimson and silver
  
Nickname Warriors
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Georgia Accrediting Commission
YearbookThe Sequoyah
Website spwww.sccpss.com/schools/jenkins/Pages/default.aspx

Herschel Vespasian Jenkins High School, commonly known as Jenkins High School, is a public high school located in Savannah, Georgia, United States. A part of the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools, it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Georgia Accrediting Commission.

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Academics

Student enrollment is nearly 1,900 in grades 9-12, from the school's neighborhood attendance district, as well as from elsewhere in Chatham County through the Honors Academy for Academic Excellence.

Jenkins operates on a block schedule in which students take four courses over one semester, and four other courses over the next semester.

Senior students are eligible for the Joint Enrollment Program which partners with Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah Technical College, and Savannah State University. Joint Enrollment students take college core courses with free tuition. In addition, Jenkins offers AP courses, honors/advanced courses, and Project Lead the Way courses. PLTW was a program designed to instill technological learning into schools. The program was briefly interrupted during the 2006–07 school year, but was reinstated and continues to serve as the engineering-related school of the Savannah-Chatham County School System.

Honors Academy for Academic Excellence and Engineering Academy

The primary focus of this program is to provide higher-level courses to advanced students. Any student in Chatham County who meets program criteria is eligible to enroll at Jenkins.[ citation needed ]

History

The school is named for the late, local philanthropist Herschel Vespasian Jenkins.[ citation needed ]

Jenkins was named a Blue Ribbon School in 1997 and a School of Excellence in 1998.[ citation needed ]

Beginning in the summer of 2019, the first of several phases to replace the school building in its entirety began. The new facility opened in August 2021. Hussey, Gay, Bell served as the design team for the project. [2]

Notable alumni

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References

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