Atherton High School (Kentucky) Explained

Atherton High School
Motto:"What you do makes a difference."
Streetaddress:3000 Dundee Road
City:Louisville
State:Kentucky
Zipcode:40205
Country:United States
Coordinates:38.2128°N -85.688°W
Type:Public
Established:1924
District:Jefferson County Public Schools
Principal:Stephanie Fluhr
Faculty:73.15 (FTE)
Ratio:19.97
Grades:9–12
Colors:Maroon and gold [1]
Nickname:Ravens[2]
Footnotes:[3]
Enrollment:1,461 (2018–19)[4]

Atherton High School is a public school in the Highlands district of Louisville, Kentucky, United States, and is part of the Jefferson County Public School district. It opened in 1924[5] as J.M. Atherton High School for Girls at 1418 Morton Avenue. It is named after John McDougal Atherton,[5] a local businessman and politician who was instrumental in changing Louisville's school system administration from trustees to a board of education. The school became coeducational in 1950.[5]

Atherton moved to its current site in 1962 on the old Ray and Charles Clagett estate and its old premises is now the Jefferson County Traditional Middle School.[6] A new wing was added to the Dundee location in 1992.

Atherton offers an International Studies Program and an International Baccalaureate (IB) Program. The IB Program is the only one in the city at a public school, and also the only one open to boys (the city's other IB program is at the all-girls' Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic school). Students also have the option of enrolling in Advanced Placement or Honors classes as well as in the Advanced Placement Program, Exceptional Child Education Program, and English as a Second Language Program.

Notable alumni

See also: List of people from the Louisville metropolitan area.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Atherton High School. 2024-03-21. Kentucky High School Athletic Association. en-US.
  2. News: GOODBYE REBELS: Atherton High School announces new mascot . . Louisville, KY . September 28, 2021 . September 29, 2021.
  3. Web site: School Report Card 2015-2016 School/District Details . XLSX . Kentucky Department Of Education . October 26, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161027055436/http://applications.education.ky.gov/SRC/DataSets/20152016/PROFILE.xlsx . October 27, 2016 . dead .
  4. Web site: Atherton High. National Center for Education Statistics. May 6, 2020.
  5. http://schools.jefferson.kyschools.us/high/atherton/history.html Atherton High School History
  6. http://media.jefferson.k12.ky.us/groups/jcpshistory/wiki/41bb9/Atherton_High_School.html Atherton High School
  7. News: Unstoppable: Small-town scoring machine Whitney Creech running with legends . Josh . Moore . . December 26, 2015 . January 6, 2016 . That work ethic is part of what impressed Michelle Clark-Heard, the women's basketball coach at WKU who starred at Atherton in the 1980s..
  8. Web site: Dave Boucher and Adam Tamburin, The Tennessean . Jane Eskind, Tennessee trailblazer and Louisville native, dead at 83 . Courier-journal.com . August 6, 2016 . September 15, 2019.
  9. Book: Conversations with Kentucky Writers. 2003. University of Kentucky Press. Beattie, Elisabeth L.. 85 . 978-0-8131-9043-3.
  10. News: Louisville's Oksana Masters wins milestone silver medal in Winter Paralympics skiing . Glenn . Brownstein . . March 9, 2014 . March 10, 2014. (soft paywall)
  11. Web site: Remembering the Turbulent Life of a 'Gonzo' Writer. NPR. 2007-11-18.
  12. Web site: Charlie Tyra Statistics. Basketball Reference. 2007-12-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20071225131907/http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/t/tyrach01.html. 25 December 2007 . live.
  13. News: ELECTION 2006; Putting beliefs to the test. Courier-Journal. Wolfson, Andrew. 2006-11-01. 1A.

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