page_title: Knoxville High School (Tennessee)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Knoxville High School (Tennessee) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Girls' High School in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, photographed in the early 1900s. This school operated from the 1870s until 1910, when the coeducational Knoxville High School opened. The school building, constructed in 1886 and designed by architect Joseph Baumann, was located along Union Avenue, just west of Market Square.
context_page_description: Knoxville High School was a public high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, that operated from 1910 to 1951, enrolling grades 10 to 12. Its building is a contributing property in the Emory Place Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was more recently used for adult education programs offered by Knox County Schools.
  The building is currently being converted into senior assisted living
context_section_description: The Knoxville High School building, located on East Fifth Avenue in Knoxville, was completed in 1910, enrolling male and female students who had previously attended separate high schools.  W. J. Barton was the school's first principal. W. E. Evans served as principal from 1917 until the school closed in 1951. Enrollment grew to just over 2,000 in the early 1920s and reached a peak of about 2,300 around the beginning of World War II.
  The school was known for many years as a school sports powerhouse, winning a total of 13 Tennessee state championships and six Southern championships in football, as well as national championships in 1930 and 1937.
  By 1948, the building had become inadequate, and city schools Superintendent Tom Prince warned that the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools was threatening to strip Knoxville High's accreditation.  In response, the city built three new schools: Fulton High School, West High School, East High School, and made improvements  to South High School and Austin High.  Knoxville High closed in 1951.
  After the school was closed, the city school district used the building for administrative offices. Following consolidation of the city and county schools, Knox County Schools has used the building for adult education.
caption: The old Girls' High School, where Knoxville's female students attended high school before the opening of Knoxville High
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