Spartanburg High School - Spartana Yearbook (Spartanburg, SC)

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The history of the Spartanbur3 High School as a separate institution begins in 1897. In that year the board of trustees, selecting a site in the center of the city’s population, erected the building known from its location as the Converse Street High School. This building cost ten thousand dollars. It consisted of six classrooms and an auditorium, and had a faculty of ten teachers and a student body of less than two hundred boys and girls. The graduating class of 1901 had eight members. The two succeeding decades saw such a growth in the town and such an increased interest in public school education that in 1920 the demand for more space and better facilities was met by the first step in a splendid building program. This step was the erection of the Dean Street wing of the present building. This was completed in 1921 and was called the Frank Evans High School in honor of Dr. Frank Evans, who was the Superintendent of Schools in Spartanburg for thirty years and who was recognized throughout the South as HISTORY

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SPARTANBURG HIGH SCHOOL OF SCHOOL a leader in public school education. The ten classrooms in the old building were increased to 35 in the new one. Changes and expansion in the curriculum kept pace with the physical improvements in the school. A phenomenal growth in enrollment called for additions in the building in 1924 and again in 1928. When these were completed, we had the Spartanburg High School as it is today, with a value, including building and site, of $1,031,000.00 and with physical equipment and educational advantages second to none in the State. In 1939 the size and widely varied interest of the growing student body necessitated the building of two junior high schools in the city. The building was then reserved for students of the senior high school; that is, for grades nine through eleven. Today there are nearly fifty classrooms in which approximately fourteen hundred students and a high school staff of fifty-six officers and instructors cooperate in a program of regular courses of study and extra-curricular activities. 5