19-1296: Lee High School is the name of several high schools in the United States: Lee High School [ edit ] Lee High School (Huntsville, Alabama) Lee High School (Arkansas) Lee High School (Massachusetts) Lee High School (Wyoming, Michigan) Lee High School (Lee County, Virginia) Short form: Lee High School [ edit ] Robert E. Lee High School (disambiguation) Robert Lee High School , Robert Lee, Texas See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Lee High School" , "Lee Highschool" , or "Lee Secondary School" on Misplaced Pages. Southern Lee High School , Sanford, North Carolina Upson-Lee High School , Thomaston, Georgia Washington-Lee High School , Arlington, Virginia All pages with titles beginning with Lee High School All pages with titles beginning with Lee Highschool All pages with titles containing Lee High School All pages with titles containing Lee Highschool Lee School (disambiguation) Lee Middle School (disambiguation) Lee County High School (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
38-633: A full complement of academic coursework, including AP and pre-AP coursework for most students. Lee High School offers a broad array of academic subjects, including a full range of pre-AP and AP courses. The school sponsors a number of clubs and organization in which students may participate. Lee High's band, The Marching Generals, was awarded First Place in "The Greatest Bands in Dixie", awarded during Mardi Gras in New Orleans in February 1976. As
57-399: A full high school, due to the procedure of discontinuing the lower grades and adding higher ones. The class of 1964 became Lee's first graduating class. (Lee was Huntsville's Fourth High School. Huntsville, Butler and Councill were operating in 1964) During the past (1966–1967) school year, Lee's enrollment was approximately 1700 students. The enrollment approximately for the 1967–68 school term
76-488: A major overhaul of the cities school facilities and curriculum is occurring. In 2012, a new digital curriculum was issued, giving all students laptops and increasing digital usage for teaching. This was done to take advantage of the growing use of computers and to help give students easy access to information and organization. In 2011, a $ 194 million five year capital plan was granted by the Alabama Board of Education to
95-617: A phone call from the National Security Agency (NSA) prompted them to do so. In the 2013 fiscal year it paid Chris McRae, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to run this program. Statewide testing ranks the schools in Alabama. Those in the bottom six percent are listed as "failing." As of early 2018, three local schools were included in this category: Currently,
114-667: A result, the band was selected to represent the State of Alabama at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter on January 20, 1977. Further, the Marching Generals became the first Huntsville City Schools' band to march in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 22, 1984, leading the parade. {Baccus, 1984} They also got to be in the AAMU Homecoming parades and Magic City Classic multiple years On November 20, 2006,
133-488: A school bus transporting Lee High School students to a local trade school careened over a retaining wall on an elevated part of Interstate 565 at the U.S. highway 231 exit and plummeted 30 feet. Investigating agencies at federal, state and local levels include the NTSB, Alabama State Department of Transportation, Alabama Department of Public Safety, and Huntsville Police Department. Crestwood Medical Center and Huntsville Hospital,
152-413: Is 1600 students. Still the need for more classrooms has caused Lee to add to its present building four new portable classrooms, raising the number of portable classrooms to seven ... The school operated as a junior high school to allow for the eventual closure of nearby Rison High School and changed its status in tandem with the opening of Chapman Junior High School (later, Chapman Middle School). In 1986,
171-620: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lee High School (Huntsville, Alabama) Lee High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in grades 9–12 from Huntsville , in Madison County, Alabama in the United States, as a part of Huntsville City Schools . Lee High School was named for the Lee Highway ( U.S. Route 72 ) that ran in front of
190-540: The 2010 fiscal year with a debt of nearly $ 20 million the largest of any school system in Alabama by a significant margin. However, after Casey Wardynski was appointed superintendent, he worked to erase the school system's debt and bring the budget into surplus. It is partially within Madison County , and partially in Limestone County . In 2014 officials from the school district began monitoring social media activity from students. The officials stated that
209-634: The Huntsville City School System. With this, the city plans to renovate and construct new facilities for many of its aging campuses. These include a new Blossomwood Elementary School, New Freshman Academy for Huntsville High School , construction of a new building and campus for the combination of Lee High School and New Century Technological School, construction of a new Whitesburg Elementary, Virgil I. Grissom High School (the cities largest student body), and J. O. Johnson High School . Renovations and consolidations for many other of
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#1732779850709228-557: The Huntsville City Schools created the Lee Arts and Pre-Engineering Magnet programs. This program draws students from other schools in the city to Lee for study and opportunities in specific areas. The arts magnet has been rather successful, attracting talented students for theater and vocal music opportunities. The Huntsville City Schools constructed a new Lee High School facility on Meridian Street, North (next to
247-484: The beginning of the 2012–2013 school year, the new Lee Lyric Theatre had its debut production in June 2012. The production, Oliver! , was a collaboration between the school and Independent Musical Productions. On August 16, 2012, a ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of the new Lee High School. The new facility also houses "New Century Technology High School", which was a virtual entity at Columbia High School since
266-501: The mid-1990s. The Huntsville City Schools Performance and Creative Arts Magnet programs are located at Lee High School. Students are admitted to these programs through a combination of interviews, scholastic achievement, and auditions. The magnet programs include Cinematography, Creative Writing, Dance, Orchestra, Photography, Technical Theatre, Theatrical Performance, Visual Arts, and Vocal Performance. In addition to their magnet courses (usually two to three hours per day), students follow
285-601: The old school location in the 1950s, which, in turn, was named after Confederate and Union General Robert E. Lee . The school's mascot is now a 5-Star General and, for many years, a painting of General Robert E. Lee mounted on his horse and holding the Confederate flag was on the Gymnasium wall. In 1974 the flag was painted over and the Generals' mascot is now held to represent no specific person. The original building
304-472: The original location). The new building is 250,000 square feet (23,000 m ) and designed for 1,200 students. One issue surmounted during construction was the Norfolk Southern railroad adjacent to the school; a raised bridge was erected to allow students to access playing fields that are located across the track from the classrooms. Although the school's scheduled opening was established as
323-484: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lee_High_School&oldid=1256054108 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
342-546: The two local hospitals, both activated their Mass Casualty action plans. Emergency response personnel from throughout the area were called upon to assist in rescue efforts. Huntsville City Schools Huntsville City Schools is the school district serving Huntsville, Alabama . As of the 2016–17 school year, the system had 24,083 students and employed 1,697 teachers. The district oversees 36 schools: 21 PreK - elementary schools , 6 middle schools , 7 high schools , and 2 magnet schools . The school system finished
361-413: Was constructed in 1957 and opened in the later part of the 1957–1958 school year. The current facility for Lee High School was begun in 2010 and was occupied during the 2012–2013 school year. According to the 1967–1968 Lee High School Student Handbook : ... Lee High School was established as a junior high school during the second semester of the 1957–58 school term. In the school term of 1963–64 Lee became
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