Savannah High School (Georgia)

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Savannah High School
Address
Savannah High School (Georgia)
400 Pennsylvania Avenue

,
Georgia
31404

United States
Coordinates 32°03′47″N81°03′28″W / 32.063114°N 81.057868°W / 32.063114; -81.057868
Information
Type Public secondary
School district Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools
CEEB code 112710
PrincipalGequetta Jenkins
Teaching staff10.40 (FTE) [1]
Grades 912
Enrollment239 (2018-19) [1]
Student to teacher ratio22.98 [1]
Color(s)Blue and white
  
Nickname Blue Jackets
Accreditation Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Website spwww.sccpss.com/schools/shs/Pages/default.aspx

Savannah High School is a public high school located in Savannah, Georgia, United States.

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Campus

Savannah High is now located at 400 Pennsylvania Avenue.

History

Savannah High School was originally located on Washington Avenue between East and West Atlantic Avenues. The original building, built by the WPA and designed by William Bordley Clarke, Sr., was once the largest public school building in the United States. The foundation of the original building had been built as a luxury hotel, but the owners went bankrupt in the Great Depression and the City of Savannah took over the unfinished building. The three-story brick and mortar structure included two interior courtyards, one of which held a rifle range for the ROTC as well as several circular interior fire escape slides, which have since been sealed off. The distance around the interior hallway was in excess of one quarter mile. Today, that building houses the Savannah Arts Academy, the only public high school for the arts in Savannah.

Academics

The Savannah High School campus hosts two separate programs of study:

Athletics

Savannah High School has competed in Region 3-AAA since 2016. [4] [5] The school is a member of the Georgia High School Association.

Notable alumni

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