Hugh Morson High School - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Raleigh's first public high school was located at the end of Fayetteville Street. From 1905-1908, it, along with seven elementary grades, occupied the old Centennial School building. In the fall of 1908, the four upper grades moved to a new home on Morgan Street, just next to the Presbyterian Church. Instructions for these grades continued here until the fall of 1923 when the seventh and eighth grades of the Raleigh Public Schools moved into the building which now houses the State Board of Health. In the fall of 1925, Hugh Morson High School came into being. It was built on the three hundred block of East Hargett Street, and, since only half of it was completed at that time, it accommodated only theninth, tenth, and eleventh grades. The seventh and eighth grades returned to the old high school structure. Between the years 1925 and 1929, the new school was completed and was the home of grades seven through eleven. By this time, however, another school was needed, and, in the fall of that year, students from the western part of the city entered Needham B. Broughton High School. Eventually all seventh grades returned to the grammar schools, and a twelfth grade was added to both high schools. Now another era is ending. Next fall all tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade students, including those from the Methodist Orphanage, will attend the Needham B. Broughton High School. Hugh Morson as a senior school will cease to exist but will become a junior high school. Seventh, eighth, and ninth graders from Broughton will move into the new Josephus Daniels Junior High School. And so time moves on and progress con- tinues. Raleigh hopes for and expects the best of its three high schools.