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EspañolAUBURN HIGH SCHOOL
:''For other schools of the same name see Auburn High School (disambiguation)''
'Auburn High School' is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama, United States, enrolling 1135 students in grades 10–12. It is the only high school in the Auburn City School District. Auburn High offers technical, academic, and International Baccalaureate programs, as well as joint enrollment with Southern Union State Community College and Auburn University. Auburn High School is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[1]
Founded in 1837, Auburn High School is one of the oldest secondary schools in Alabama.[2] From 1843 through 1888, the school was known as the 'Auburn Female College', offering secondary and, prior to 1870, collegiate degrees.[3] From 1892 through 1908, the school was named the 'Auburn Female Institute', and offered collegiate programs equivalent to an associates degree.[4] Auburn High became Lee County's flagship high school in 1914 as 'Lee County High School', and gained its present name, Auburn High School, in 1956.[5] The school moved to its current 36-acre (0.14 km²) campus in 1965.[6]
Auburn High was ranked the 77th best public high school overall and 28th best non-magnet public high school in the United States by ''Newsweek'' in May 2006, and the second best educational value in the Southeastern United States by SchoolMatch, as reported in the ''Wall Street Journal''.[7] Auburn High School averages seven National Merit Finalists a year, and has scored among the top five percent of Alabama high schools on state-wide standardized tests each year since testing began in 1995.[8] Auburn High's varsity sporting teams have won 34 team state championships, and the Auburn High School Band has been rated one of the top high school concert band programs in the United States, winning the John Philip Sousa Foundation's Sudler Flag of Honor in 1987.[9]
Auburn High School is a comprehensive secondary school along the classic American model. Auburn High offers a curriculum including traditional high school academic subjects, advanced academic classes, music and art, and programs in business and marketing, agriscience, industrial systems technology, and engineering. All students at Auburn High take a basic academic core including English, Social Studies, Science, and Math courses. A broad selection of elective courses are offered, and students may elect to major in one of four areas: Arts and Humanities, Business and Marketing, Engineering and Industrial Systems Technology, and Health and Human Services. Majors are offered in Graphic Design, Instrumental Performance, Vocal Performance, Theatre, Photography, Art, Business Administration, Accounting, Communications, Construction, International Studies, Industrial Systems Technology, Agriscience, Pre-Engineering, Military Science, and Health Science.[10]
Auburn High School awards three diploma endorsements indicating advanced study in a particular field, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma.[11] Auburn High offers 30 college-level Advanced Placement, Technical Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate courses for college credit. Students are also provided access to college courses at nearby Auburn University and Southern Union State Community College.[12]
Classes at Auburn High are arranged in a combination block/alternating day schedule in which four 90-minute classes are offered each day. Some classes meet every day for one semester, while others alternate every other day for the whole year.[13]
Auburn High was ranked the 77th best public high school overall and 28th best non-magnet public high school in the United States by ''Newsweek'' in May 2006, one of the top 100 public high schools in the United States by the Associated Press based on Advanced Placement test scores, the 125th best public high school in the United States by ''US News and World Report'' and the second best educational value in the Southeast by SchoolMatch, as reported in the ''Wall Street Journal''.[14]
On average, seven Auburn High students earn National Merit Finalist status each year, and, in 2006, 92 students were named AP Scholars by the College Board.[15] In 2007, ninety-five seniors received 190 scholarships worth US$5.54 million to 69 different colleges in 24 states. Graduates of the class of 2007 attend the University of Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton.[16]
Auburn High School has scored among the top five percent of Alabama high schools each year since state-wide standardized testing began in 1995.[17] As are all Alabama public high school students, Auburn High students are assessed using the Alabama High School Graduation Exam. In addition, AHS students are measured on the ACT and SAT college entrance exams, and on Advanced Placement tests.
In 2005, 58.1% of Auburn High School students took an Advanced Placement exam, compared with 7.2% of students in Alabama and 20.9% in the nation as a whole. In 2006, 58% of AHS students received a 3 or greater on an AP test, compared with 5.7% in Alabama and 14.8% nationwide.[20]
Auburn High was originally started as a private frontier school in 1837, less than three years after the Auburn area had been opened to settlement.[21] A two-story frame school building was constructed in 1838, and in the early 1840s a separate male academy had been spun off of the school.[22] In 1843, the remaining school was named the "Auburn Female College".[23]
The Auburn Female College attracted hundreds of boarding students to Auburn in the 1840s and 1850s largely because it offered a complete secondary education to women—including ancient and modern languages, literature, mathematics, and musical arts—at the same academic level of that given to men.[24] The school received a legislative charter as a Mason school in 1852, becoming the "Auburn Masonic Female College".[25]
During the 1850s, the school physical plant was expanded to three buildings: a main building, a music building, and a chapel which included the largest auditorium in eastern Alabama and a fully equipped chemistry laboratory.[26] By 1855, the school enrolled 110 students.[27] Faculty members included John M. Darby, a scientist who wrote his own textbooks for his students, including a ''Textbook of Chemistry'' and ''Botany of the Southern States'', which was the earliest compilation of flora in the Southern United States, and William P. Harrison a Methodist theologian who was eventually appointed Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.[28] The school offered a broad selection of language offerings, with students in 1861 offered classes in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.[29] The Auburn Masonic Female College also hosted speakers and debates among some of the region's greatest luminaries, most notably an 1860 debate over secession which included William Lowndes Yancey, Alexander Stephens, Benjamin Harvey Hill, and Robert Toombs.[30]
The Masons relinquished control of the school to a shared board of trustees with the East Alabama Male College in the late 1850s, and in the early 1860s, the school began admitting boys to the secondary division.[31] When the U.S. Civil War began in 1861, virtually the entire male junior and senior classes of the school, as well as much of the faculty joined Confederate States of America military units, particularly, the 37th Alabama Regiment.[32] As the "principal teacher", W.F. Slaton, was also a major in the regiment, classes in Auburn stopped for the remainder of the war. The regiment was captured at Corinth, Mississippi, and exiled to the Johnson's Island prisoner of war camp on Lake Erie. While imprisoned there, Slaton held the school's classes in the camp. Notably, the African American Union guards, who were prohibited by law from attending school in their native Wisconsin, were invited to join the classes, making Auburn High one of the first Southern schools to integrate, some 90 years before Brown v. Board.[33]
When the war ended, students and teachers returned back to Auburn, but economic hardships in the aftermath of the war and Reconstruction left the school closed through the rest of the decade.[34]
Around 1870, the school reopened in the building formerly occupied by the male academy.[35] The school retained the name "Auburn Female College", despite admitting both boys and girls.[36]
State funding for the school was practically non-existent until the late 1870s, and the town's economic condition was poor, making it difficult to support the school.[37] Nonetheless, in 1885, a separate town-funded public school system for Auburn was created, and the previously private Auburn Female College became the public "Auburn High School", although tuition was still charged.[38] While this new public funding allowed the school to remain open much longer than before—200 days in 1886—enrollment was significantly lower than it was prior to the Civil War, with an 1889 report listing Auburn High School as enrolling fewer than 20 students.[39]
In 1892, Auburn University (then the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College) decided to admit women. However, since the college only admitted women with junior standing, Auburn High added three more years of classes beyond the secondary level (equivalent to freshman and sophomore college classes) for women. With this addition, the name of the school was yet again changed to the "Auburn Female Institute".[40]
In 1899, a new, two-story building was built for Auburn High.[41] In 1908, the school dropped the post-secondary program and became "Auburn High School" once more.[42] Around 1910, Auburn High fielded its first basketball team, and by 1915, its first football squad.[43]
In 1914, Auburn High became the flagship high school for the county and was officially renamed "Lee County High School", though "Auburn High" remained the common name of the school. That same year, the school relocated from the 1899 building to a new structure on Opelika Road.[44]
In the period between 1910 and 1920, Auburn High changed from an academy of the classic 19th-century model, focusing on the traditional Latin course, to a comprehensive high school offering vocational and technical courses in addition to the academic offerings.[45] Auburn High added vocational courses to the curriculum in 1918, the eighth high school in the state to implement such a program.[46] Over the next two decades, Auburn High developed its modern extracurricular face, forming band, choir, drama, and other programs, as well as diversifying occupational classes.[47] In 1925, Auburn High became one of the first high schools in the state to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[48] A new school building was constructed in 1931, and in 1956, the school was officially renamed Auburn High School again.[49]
In 1961, the City of Auburn again created its own school system, with Auburn High as the new district's high school. In 1966, the school moved to the current campus, organized as a "Freedom of Choice" school designed to promote desegregation. In 1971, Auburn High merged with nearby Drake High to complete its integration.[50]
Five major additions have been made to Auburn High since the original construction in 1966, and in 2004 the school was changed from housing grades 9–12 to housing grades 10–12. In 1997, Auburn High added an International Baccalaureate program, with the first IB diplomas awarded in 1999.[51]
The following are images of buildings which have housed Auburn High School.
Auburn High School offers the following academic clubs, athletic teams, and service organizations.
Auburn High School offers 11 men's and 10 women's varsity sports, all in the large school (6A) classification of the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA). Men's sports offered are basketball, baseball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, American football, wrestling, tennis, golf, swimming, and soccer. Women's sports offered are basketball, softball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, volleyball, tennis, golf, swimming, and soccer. Auburn High has placed in the top ten of the 6A all-sports rankings every year since 1995, ranking in the top four for each of the last three years. Auburn High has won a total of 34 team state championships.[53]
Auburn High's football team competes in Region 3 of class 6A along with Central High of Phenix City, Dothan, Enterprise, Northview High of Dothan, Opelika, Russell County, and Smiths Station.[54] Since 2004, Auburn High has produced more All-Pro National Football League players than any other high school. AHS alumni in the NFL include Marcus Washington of the Washington Redskins, Osi Umenyiora of the New York Giants, and Demarcus Ware of the Dallas Cowboys.[55]
Auburn High's football team was organized in 1915, and has an all-time record of 486–334–32. AHS has traditional rivalries with Opelika, Central, Lanett, and Valley High Schools. The Auburn High football squad has finished the season unbeaten on five occasions (1921, 1922, 1923, 1934, and 1952), all prior to the establishment of statewide playoffs. Auburn High has once been ranked first in the state (October 1967), and proceeded deepest into the playoffs in 2001, when the team reached the semifinal round. AHS has won the region, area or conference championship on seventeen occasions since 1921: in 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1952, 1967, 1972, 1973, 1987, 1990, and 2004.[56]The football team's home field is 7,120- seat Duck Samford Stadium. Football games are broadcast on the radio station WAUD AM 1230.[57]
Auburn High's men's basketball team won the 6A state championship in 2005, and was state runner-up in 1924, 1987, 1991, and 1996. The team is coached by 24-year veteran Frank Tolbert, who holds a 550–256 record.[58] The Auburn High women's basketball team won the outdoor state championship in 1919.[59] The basketball team plays at the 1,500 seat Auburn Fieldhouse on the Auburn High campus. Basketball games are broadcast on WAUD AM 1230.[60]
Auburn High's six track family sports—men's and women's outdoor track, men's and women's indoor track, and men's and women's cross country—have won twenty state championships. AHS men's outdoor track squad has won seven AHSAA titles and has placed in the top 12 at the state track meet each of the last eight years.[61] AHS women's outdoor team won a state title in 1986, and has placed in the top 12 at the state meet each of the last seven years.[62] Men's indoor track has won four state titles, and men's cross country has won the state crown six times. An Auburn High student won the state Decathlon in 1970.[63] Prior to the creation of the AHSAA state meet, Auburn High School won the Alabama Interscholastic Track and Field Meet in 1921 and 1923.[64]
Auburn High's men's soccer program, coached by Bo Morrissey, has reached the 6A state playoffs each year of the program's existence, including a final four appearance in 2005. The women's soccer program, coached by Mac Matthews, has reached the final four of the state playoffs each of the last four years (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). Soccer matches are broadcast on WANI AM 1400.[65] Auburn High's men's golf program has won the last four 6A state championships. AHS women's golf has placed in the top five in the state three times in the last six years, and placed second in 2007.[66] Auburn High's official home golf course is Indian Pines Golf Course, though the Auburn University Club and Robert Trent Jones' Grand National are often used as home courses. Divers on Auburn High School's swimming team have won nine state championships since 1988, and the women's swimming team has placed in the top five four times in the last six years at the state meet.[67] Auburn hosts swimming and diving meets at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.
The Auburn High School Band was awarded the Sudler Flag of Honor by the John Philip Sousa Foundation as the top high school concert ensemble in the United States, Canada, and Japan in 1988.[68] The Auburn High Band has also been placed on the "Historic Roll of Honor of Distinguished High School Concert Bands in America" as a band which as attained "unusual levels of achievement nationally and which [is] considered to be of historical importance and influence to the nation's high school concert band programs."[69] The top concert band, the Auburn High School Honors Band, has an all-time ratings record of 347–4–0–0–0, has received less than a perfect rating only three times since 1946, and has received perfect ratings in from all judges since 1974. The Band has twice performed for the Music Educators National Conference, and in 1996 became the first high school band ever invited to perform for a College Band Directors National Association Conference.[70]
Auburn High School's jazz ensemble, the Lab Band, was named one of the top ten high school jazz bands in the United States in 1974, and in 1978 performed on the National Association of Jazz Educators "Project II" album as one of "The Nation's Most Outstanding Jazz Bands". The Lab Band has an all-judges record of 126–2–0–0–0, and has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.[71]
The Auburn High School Science Olympiad team has placed either first or second in the state, and thus has represented Alabama at the national competition, 10 out the past 12 years.[72]
Auburn High is situated on 36 acres (0.14 km²) in the east-central part of Auburn. The school is designed in a modernist style on an open campus-style setting, with nine detached buildings separated by outdoor walkways and courtyards spread out over 70% of the campus area. The campus is located at the corner of Samford Drive and Dean Road, in a residential area. Adjacent to the campus are the Auburn City Schools central office, Dean Road Elementary School, and Memorial Park Cemetery. Auburn University is located approximately one mile (1.6 km) west of the school.[73]
The current Auburn High School campus was constructed in 1965, and originally consisted of four buildings; the 100, 200, 300, and 400 buildings. The 100 building contains the auditorium, cafeteria, and music and vocational classrooms, the 200 and 300 buildings contain academic classrooms including the aquatic biology laboratory (300) and the counselors' offices (200), and the 400 building contains a gymnasium and athletic facilities. In the 1970s, the 500 building, containing academic classrooms, and the 600 building, containing business and JROTC classrooms, were added.[6] An administration building was constructed in the 1980s, and the largest academic classroom building, the 800 building, containing classrooms, a library, and a multi-media room, was erected in 1995. The Auburn Fieldhouse, a competition gymnasium, was built in 2005, and a new academic building began construction in the spring of 2007.[75]
The campus contains 94 academic classrooms, a 1250-seat auditorium, a 1500-seat competition gym (the Auburn Fieldhouse), six tennis courts, a baseball field (Sam Welborn Field), a track, cafeteria, library, multi-media room, practice gym, and physical education fields. Off-campus athletic facilities include 7,120-seat Duck Samford Stadium, the Auburn Softball Complex, and the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.[76]
Auburn High School is in the initial stages of the Auburn City Schools' 21st Century Learning Initiative. As part of this initiative, every classroom will be equipped with a digital smartboard, and the entire campus will be covered by a wireless network. Starting in the 2007–2008 school year, students at Auburn High will be provided with a laptop computer to use both in school and at home. The initiative also provides training for teachers in integrating this technology into instruction.[77]
Auburn High School enrolled 1,135 students in the 2006–2007 school year.[78] Thirty percent of Auburn High's enrollment is African-American, five percent is of Asian descent, and the remainder is mostly white.[79] Twenty-four percent of enrolled students are eligible for federal free or reduced lunch programs.[80] Auburn High School has a 14.8:1 student-teacher ratio and a four-year drop-out rate of 3.01%.[81]
Auburn High's mascot is the tiger. The tiger was chosen because of its association with Auburn in Oliver Goldsmith's 1770 poem ''The Deserted Village''. The first line of the poem is "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain", while a later line describes Auburn as, "where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey."
Auburn High's costumed mascot is Samford, an anthropomorphic tiger. Samford was created in 1995 and named for three symbols of the school: Samford Avenue, which runs by the school; Duck Samford Stadium, Auburn High's football stadium; and Samford Hall, the most prominent building in Auburn. Kari Pierce was the first Samford in 1995.[82]
:''Our alma mater, Auburn High''
At football games, the fight song is played after a touchdown.
Auburn High's secondary fight song, "Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn" was Auburn High's fight song before "Hooray for Auburn" was written in 1961, and is played after a successful PAT conversion.
:''Glory, glory to ole Auburn!''
An earlier school song, "We're Loyal to You, Auburn High" was used from the 1920s through the 1940s.[83]
:''We’re loyal to you Auburn High,''
The Auburn High School yearbook is ''The Tiger''. ''The Tiger'' has been published each year since 1945, and is produced by students on the yearbook staff.[84] In addition, Auburn High has a literary magazine, ''The Sheet''.[85]
The journalism classes at Auburn High print a monthly newspaper, the ''AHS Free Press''. The ''Free Press'' and its three predecessor student newspapers, the ''AHS Chronicle'', the ''Tiger Tales'', and the ''Tiger News'' have been published since the early 1950s. An earlier paper, the ''Young Ladies' Mirror'', was published by students in the 1850s.[86]
Starting in 2007, Auburn High students run a campus television station, known as ''Tiger TV''.[87]
The following are notable people associated with Auburn High School. If the person was an Auburn High School student, the number in parentheses indicates the year of graduation; if the person was a faculty or staff member, that person's title and years of association are included.
★ John M. Darby (President, 1855–1858; Professor of Natural Science, 1855–1862) — botanist[88]
★ William P. Harrison (President, 1861–1862) — theologian and author, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives[89]
★ James R. Dowdell (1863–64) — Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama[90]
★ William J. Samford (1864) — Governor of Alabama[91]
★ Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr. (1888) — academic, editor of the first anthology of Texas literature[92]
★ William Spratling (1917) — Silversmith and artist[93]
★ Charlie Gibson (Head football coach, 1923) — Major League Baseball player, Philadelphia Athletics[94]
★ Tom Sellers (1941) — Journalist, winner 1955 Pulitzer Prize[95]
★ John E. Pitts, Jr. (1942) — US Army brigadier general, director International Staff, Inter-American Defense Board[96]
★ Mary Lou Foy (1962) — Photojournalist, Picture Editor Washington Post[97]
★ Joe Beckwith (1973) — Major League Baseball pitcher[98]
★ Joe Turnham (1977) — Chairman, Alabama Democratic Party[99]
★ Vanessa Echols (1979) — News anchor, WRDQ and WFTV, Orlando, Florida[100]
★ Ted Vives (1982) — Composer[101]
★ Man or Astro-man? (1980s) — Surf punk band[102]
★ Ed Packard (1986) — Politician[103]
★ William Chen (1988) — Mathematician, winner in two 2006 World Series of Poker events[104]
★ Ace Atkins (1989) — Author, Pulitzer Prize - nominated journalist[105]
★ Robert Gibbs (1989) — Communications Director, Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign; Press Secretary, John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign[106]
★ Eric Harshbarger (1989) — LEGO artist[107]
★ James Fukai (1992) — Guitarist, Trust Company[108]
★ Tracy Rocker (Defensive coordinator, 1992–1993) — NFL football player, winner of college football's Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award[109]
★ Mark Spencer (1995) — President/CEO, Digium, creator of Asterisk PBX[110]
★ Marcus Washington (1996) — NFL football player[111]
★ Charles Johnson (1999) — political philosopher[112]
★ Osi Umenyiora (1999) — NFL football player
★ Demarcus Ware (2001) — NFL football player
★ Beachhead (fictional alumnus) — character in the series
1. ''Auburn High School Program of Study, 2007–2008'', (Auburn: Auburn High School, 2007), 2–3, 6;''Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006–2007'', retrieved July 13, 2007.
2. United States Bureau of Education, ''Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902'' (Washington: G.P.O., 1902); Mollie Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'' (S.l.: s.n., 1955), 72. Auburn High School is likely the oldest secondary school in the state; the 1902 report gives an 1843 date for the founding, which for existing schools, is preceded in that report only by the Marion Military Institute. As the 1843 date likely recognizes the the school's first secondary/collegiate program, not its founding, Hollifield's 1837 date would make Auburn High the oldest.
3. United States Bureau of Education, ''Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902''; United States Bureau of Education, ''Report of the Commissioner of Education made to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1890, with accompanying papers'' (Washington: G.P.O., 1890).
4. Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 73; Auburn High School, ''Auburn High School Catalogue, Session 1908–1909'' (Auburn: The Auburn High School, 1908).
5. Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, ''Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village'' (Auburn: s.n., 1996), 98; ''Lee County Bulletin'', August 30, 1956.
6. Alabama, Dept. of Education, ''Report of a partial survey of the Auburn City School System, 1977–78'', (SG023316–23331, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 1978).
7. Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert, "America's Best High Schools, 2006", ''Newsweek'' 147 (May 8, 2006): 50–54. The non-magnet ranking was taken by eliminating schools from the 2006 ''Newsweek'' list which used selective processes for admission. Tamar Hausman, "School Expenses", ''The Wall Street Journal, Southeast Journal'', May 13, 1998
8. J. Terry Jenkins, ''Auburn City Board of Education Presentation to the Auburn City Council'', January 3, 2007, p. 4; PSK12.com, Ranking of High Schools in Alabama, retrieved on April 8, 2007; Alabama State Department of Education, ''State Board of Education Report Card'', years 1994–1995 -- 2005–2006, records online from 1998–1999 through 2005-2006. Top five percent figure from comparison of individual school scores.
9. Data on All-sports rankings and state championships collated from the AHSAA website; John Philip Sousa Foundation, ''Sousa Foundation Sudler Flag of Honor'', retrieved July 13, 2007,
10. ''Auburn High School Program of Study, 2007–2008'', (Auburn: Auburn High School, 2007), 2–3, 6.
11. Ibid., 4–5.
12. Ibid., 13, 18–38. Classes offered for college credit are; Advanced Placement: AP Studio Art, French 105 (AP/IB), German 105 (AP/IB), Spanish 105 (AP/IB), AP Eleventh Grade English (AP English Language and Composition), AP Twelfth Grade English (AP English Literature and Composition), AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, Biology and Research (AP/IB), Chemistry and Research (AP/IB), AP European History, AP U.S. History, AP Economics, and AP Government; International Baccalaureate: IB Studio Art/Design, IB Art Research, French 105 (AP/IB), German 105 (AP/IB), Spanish 105 (AP/IB), IB Music Theory, IB English 11, IB English 12, IB Standard Level Math, IB Higher Level Math, Biology and Research (AP/IB), Chemistry and Research (AP/IB), IB History of the Americas I, IB History of the Americas II, and IB Economics; Technical Advanced Placement: up to 15 hours college credit in Agriscience, Business/Marketing, Health Science, Pre-engineering, and Industrial Systems Technology.
13. Auburn High School, ''Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006–2007'', retrieved July 8, 2006.
14. Kantrowitz and Wingert, "America's Best High Schools, 2006", 50–54. The non-magnet ranking was taken by eliminating schools from the 2006 ''Newsweek'' list which used selective processes for admission. Hausman, "School Expenses"; Trey Armistead, ''The Auburn High School Band - About Auburn High School'', retrieved July 8, 2007.
15. J. Terry Jenkins, ''Auburn City Board of Education Presentation to the Auburn City Council''.
16. "AHS scholarship winners", ''Opelika-Auburn News'', May 23, 2007; "Congratulations AHS scholarship winners!", ''The Auburn Villager'', May 17, 2007.
17. PSK12.com, ''Ranking of High Schools in Alabama'', retrieved on April 8, 2007; Alabama State Department of Education, ''State Board of Education Report Card'', years 1994–1995 -- 2005–2006, records online from 1998–1999 through 2005–2006. Top five percent figure from comparison of individual school scores.
18. ALSDE Reports - Auburn City Schools - Auburn High School
19. Auburn High School, Alabama Public School - College Prep - SchoolMatters
20. Beverly Harvey, "More students taking advanced placement courses", ''Opelika-Auburn News'', February 8, 2007.
21. ''Columbus Enquirer'', February 22, 1838; William W. Rogers et al., ''Alabama: The History of a Deep South State'' (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 90–91, 138; John Peavy Wright, ''Glimpses into the Past from My Grandfather's Trunk'' (Alexander City, Ala.: Outlook Publishing Company, 1969), 4; Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 72.
22. Mary Reese Frazer, ''Early History of Auburn'' (S.l.: s.n., 1920), 3; Ann Pearson, "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest Village of the Plain" in Alexander Nunn, ed., ''Lee County and Her Forebears'' (Montgomery: Herff Jones, 1983), 61; Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 72.
23. Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 61; United States Bureau of Education, ''Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902'' (Washington: G.P.O., 1902).
24. ''South-Western Baptist'', May 3, 1855; Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 73; Minnie Clare Boyd, ''Alabama in the Fifties'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931), 138.
25. "Ratifying Incorporation of Masonic Female College", ''Alabama Historical Quarterly'' 18 (Summer 1956), 150–151.
26. Leland Cooper, ''The Early History of Auburn'', Thesis (Auburn: s.n., 1907), 5 ; Logue and Simms, ''Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village'', 16; ''Tuskegee Republican'', April 17, 1859; Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 73; Henry Barnard, ''School architecture; or Contributions to the improvement of school-houses in the United States'' (New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1848), 332.
27. ''List of Colleges, Academics and Common Schools, 1855'', Macon County Archives.
28. Frazer, ''Early History of Auburn'', 3; Wright, ''Glimpses into the Past from My Grandfather's Trunk'', 32; John Darby, ''Text book of Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical'' (New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1860); John Darby, ''Botany of the Southern States in two parts'' (New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1855); Harold Lawrence, ed., ''Methodist Preachers in Georgia'' (Tignall, Ga.: Boyd Publishing, 1984), 234.
29. ''Tallapoosa Times'', January 3, 1861.
30. Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 12–14.
31. Cooper, ''The Early History of Auburn'' 5; I.M.E. Blandin, ''History of Higher Education of Women in the South prior to 1860'' (New York: Neale Publishing, 1909), 105.
32. Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 78–79.
33. C.C. Culpepper, ''37th Alabama Regiment of Volunteer Infantry CSA |Slaton - Stalvy'', retrieved August 7, 2006; John Witherspoon Du Bose, ''Alabama's Tragic Decade: ten years of Alabama, 1865–1874'' (Birmingham: Webb Book Co., 1940); Thomas McAdory Owen, ed., ''Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, 1899–1903'', vol. 4 (Montgomery: Alabama Historical Society, 1904), 408; William F. Slaton, ''Diary''.
34. Blandin, ''History of Higher Education of Women in the South prior to 1860'', 106; Pearson, "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest Village of the Plain", 72, Willis Brewer, ''Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men: from 1540 to 1872'' (Montgomery: Barrett & Brown, 1872), 316.
35. Blandin, ''History of Higher Education of Women in the South prior to 1860'', 106; Willis Brewer, ''Alabama, Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men: from 1540 to 1872'' (Montgomery: Barrett & Brown, 1872), 316; East Alabama Male College Board of Trustees, ''Board Minutes'', July 12–13, 1869.
36. Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College Board of Trustees, ''Board Minutes'', June 25, 1878.
37. Willis G. Clark, ''History of Education in Alabama, 1702–1889'' (Washington: G.P.O., 1889), 242–248; Pearson, "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest Village of the Plain", 72–73.
38. ''Acts of Alabama, 1884'', Act 398; R.W. Burton, ''Annual Report of Joseph A. Holifield, Pres. Bd. of Education, Auburn Dist. Alabama for Scholastic Year Ending September 30, 1886''.
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40. Auburn Female Institute, ''Announcement of the Auburn Female Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 1894–95'' (Opelika, Ala.: R.J. Rice, 1894), 4, 6–7, 11–12.
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★ Auburn High School
★ Auburn City Schools Main Page
'Auburn High School' is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama, United States, enrolling 1135 students in grades 10–12. It is the only high school in the Auburn City School District. Auburn High offers technical, academic, and International Baccalaureate programs, as well as joint enrollment with Southern Union State Community College and Auburn University. Auburn High School is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[1]
Founded in 1837, Auburn High School is one of the oldest secondary schools in Alabama.[2] From 1843 through 1888, the school was known as the 'Auburn Female College', offering secondary and, prior to 1870, collegiate degrees.[3] From 1892 through 1908, the school was named the 'Auburn Female Institute', and offered collegiate programs equivalent to an associates degree.[4] Auburn High became Lee County's flagship high school in 1914 as 'Lee County High School', and gained its present name, Auburn High School, in 1956.[5] The school moved to its current 36-acre (0.14 km²) campus in 1965.[6]
Auburn High was ranked the 77th best public high school overall and 28th best non-magnet public high school in the United States by ''Newsweek'' in May 2006, and the second best educational value in the Southeastern United States by SchoolMatch, as reported in the ''Wall Street Journal''.[7] Auburn High School averages seven National Merit Finalists a year, and has scored among the top five percent of Alabama high schools on state-wide standardized tests each year since testing began in 1995.[8] Auburn High's varsity sporting teams have won 34 team state championships, and the Auburn High School Band has been rated one of the top high school concert band programs in the United States, winning the John Philip Sousa Foundation's Sudler Flag of Honor in 1987.[9]
Curriculum
An aerial photo of Auburn High School.
Auburn High School awards three diploma endorsements indicating advanced study in a particular field, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma.[11] Auburn High offers 30 college-level Advanced Placement, Technical Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate courses for college credit. Students are also provided access to college courses at nearby Auburn University and Southern Union State Community College.[12]
Classes at Auburn High are arranged in a combination block/alternating day schedule in which four 90-minute classes are offered each day. Some classes meet every day for one semester, while others alternate every other day for the whole year.[13]
Measures of success
The Auburn High School courtyard.
On average, seven Auburn High students earn National Merit Finalist status each year, and, in 2006, 92 students were named AP Scholars by the College Board.[15] In 2007, ninety-five seniors received 190 scholarships worth US$5.54 million to 69 different colleges in 24 states. Graduates of the class of 2007 attend the University of Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton.[16]
Test scores
Auburn High School has scored among the top five percent of Alabama high schools each year since state-wide standardized testing began in 1995.[17] As are all Alabama public high school students, Auburn High students are assessed using the Alabama High School Graduation Exam. In addition, AHS students are measured on the ACT and SAT college entrance exams, and on Advanced Placement tests.
| Alabama High School Graduation Exam Passing Rate Percentages[18] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School Year | Language | Science | Reading | Mathematics | Social Studies |
| 2005-2006 | 97.19 | 96.90 | 94.47 | 98.02 | 96.62 |
| 2004-2005 | 98.18 | 99.27 | 98.54 | 98.91 | 98.91 |
| 2003-2004 | 96.84 | 96.14 | 96.49 | 96.49 | 95.44 |
| 2002-2003 | 100.00 | 99.66 | 99.32 | 99.32 | -- |
| 2001-2002 | 98.55 | 97.82 | 98.55 | 98.19 | -- |
| Average ACT Scores - 2005[19] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn High | State | Nation | |||
| Average ACT Score | 23.0 | 20.1 | 20.9 | ||
| English subtest | 23.2 | 20.2 | 20.4 | ||
| Reading subtest | 23.3 | 20.3 | 21.3 | ||
| Math subtest | 22.1 | 19.3 | 20.7 | ||
| Science Reasoning | 22.9 | 20.0 | 20.9 | ||
| Participation Rate | 81.0% | 55.1% | 40.0% | ||
| Average SAT Reasoning Scores - 2005 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auburn High | State | Nation | |||
| SAT Reasoning Score | 1196 | 1124 | 1028 | ||
| Verbal subtest | 600 | 565 | 508 | ||
| Mathematics subtest | 596 | 559 | 520 | ||
| Participation Rate | 26.8% | 5.5% | 49.0% | ||
In 2005, 58.1% of Auburn High School students took an Advanced Placement exam, compared with 7.2% of students in Alabama and 20.9% in the nation as a whole. In 2006, 58% of AHS students received a 3 or greater on an AP test, compared with 5.7% in Alabama and 14.8% nationwide.[20]
History
Auburn Female College graduation invitation, 1852.
The Auburn Female Institute class of 1897.
An Auburn High School agriculture class, 1926.
The Auburn High School football team, 1929.
Beginnings
Auburn High was originally started as a private frontier school in 1837, less than three years after the Auburn area had been opened to settlement.[21] A two-story frame school building was constructed in 1838, and in the early 1840s a separate male academy had been spun off of the school.[22] In 1843, the remaining school was named the "Auburn Female College".[23]
The Auburn Female College attracted hundreds of boarding students to Auburn in the 1840s and 1850s largely because it offered a complete secondary education to women—including ancient and modern languages, literature, mathematics, and musical arts—at the same academic level of that given to men.[24] The school received a legislative charter as a Mason school in 1852, becoming the "Auburn Masonic Female College".[25]
During the 1850s, the school physical plant was expanded to three buildings: a main building, a music building, and a chapel which included the largest auditorium in eastern Alabama and a fully equipped chemistry laboratory.[26] By 1855, the school enrolled 110 students.[27] Faculty members included John M. Darby, a scientist who wrote his own textbooks for his students, including a ''Textbook of Chemistry'' and ''Botany of the Southern States'', which was the earliest compilation of flora in the Southern United States, and William P. Harrison a Methodist theologian who was eventually appointed Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.[28] The school offered a broad selection of language offerings, with students in 1861 offered classes in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, German, and Italian.[29] The Auburn Masonic Female College also hosted speakers and debates among some of the region's greatest luminaries, most notably an 1860 debate over secession which included William Lowndes Yancey, Alexander Stephens, Benjamin Harvey Hill, and Robert Toombs.[30]
The Masons relinquished control of the school to a shared board of trustees with the East Alabama Male College in the late 1850s, and in the early 1860s, the school began admitting boys to the secondary division.[31] When the U.S. Civil War began in 1861, virtually the entire male junior and senior classes of the school, as well as much of the faculty joined Confederate States of America military units, particularly, the 37th Alabama Regiment.[32] As the "principal teacher", W.F. Slaton, was also a major in the regiment, classes in Auburn stopped for the remainder of the war. The regiment was captured at Corinth, Mississippi, and exiled to the Johnson's Island prisoner of war camp on Lake Erie. While imprisoned there, Slaton held the school's classes in the camp. Notably, the African American Union guards, who were prohibited by law from attending school in their native Wisconsin, were invited to join the classes, making Auburn High one of the first Southern schools to integrate, some 90 years before Brown v. Board.[33]
When the war ended, students and teachers returned back to Auburn, but economic hardships in the aftermath of the war and Reconstruction left the school closed through the rest of the decade.[34]
From private college to public high school
Around 1870, the school reopened in the building formerly occupied by the male academy.[35] The school retained the name "Auburn Female College", despite admitting both boys and girls.[36]
State funding for the school was practically non-existent until the late 1870s, and the town's economic condition was poor, making it difficult to support the school.[37] Nonetheless, in 1885, a separate town-funded public school system for Auburn was created, and the previously private Auburn Female College became the public "Auburn High School", although tuition was still charged.[38] While this new public funding allowed the school to remain open much longer than before—200 days in 1886—enrollment was significantly lower than it was prior to the Civil War, with an 1889 report listing Auburn High School as enrolling fewer than 20 students.[39]
In 1892, Auburn University (then the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College) decided to admit women. However, since the college only admitted women with junior standing, Auburn High added three more years of classes beyond the secondary level (equivalent to freshman and sophomore college classes) for women. With this addition, the name of the school was yet again changed to the "Auburn Female Institute".[40]
In 1899, a new, two-story building was built for Auburn High.[41] In 1908, the school dropped the post-secondary program and became "Auburn High School" once more.[42] Around 1910, Auburn High fielded its first basketball team, and by 1915, its first football squad.[43]
Modern era
In 1914, Auburn High became the flagship high school for the county and was officially renamed "Lee County High School", though "Auburn High" remained the common name of the school. That same year, the school relocated from the 1899 building to a new structure on Opelika Road.[44]
In the period between 1910 and 1920, Auburn High changed from an academy of the classic 19th-century model, focusing on the traditional Latin course, to a comprehensive high school offering vocational and technical courses in addition to the academic offerings.[45] Auburn High added vocational courses to the curriculum in 1918, the eighth high school in the state to implement such a program.[46] Over the next two decades, Auburn High developed its modern extracurricular face, forming band, choir, drama, and other programs, as well as diversifying occupational classes.[47] In 1925, Auburn High became one of the first high schools in the state to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[48] A new school building was constructed in 1931, and in 1956, the school was officially renamed Auburn High School again.[49]
In 1961, the City of Auburn again created its own school system, with Auburn High as the new district's high school. In 1966, the school moved to the current campus, organized as a "Freedom of Choice" school designed to promote desegregation. In 1971, Auburn High merged with nearby Drake High to complete its integration.[50]
Five major additions have been made to Auburn High since the original construction in 1966, and in 2004 the school was changed from housing grades 9–12 to housing grades 10–12. In 1997, Auburn High added an International Baccalaureate program, with the first IB diplomas awarded in 1999.[51]
School buildings
The following are images of buildings which have housed Auburn High School.
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Extracurricular organizations
Auburn High School offers the following academic clubs, athletic teams, and service organizations.
★ A Club ★ Advocacy Club ★ Anchor Club ★ Anime Society ★ BEST Robotics ★ Color Guard/Honor Guard ★ DECA (Organization) ★ Diamond Dolls ★ Drill Team ★ English Honor Society ★ Environmental Club ★ Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America ★ Fellowship of Christian Athletes ★ Film Appreciation Society ★ Free Press ★ French Club | ★ French Honor Society ★ Future Business Leaders of America ★ Future Farmers of America ★ Future Teachers of America ★ German Club ★ German Honor Society ★ Government Club ★ Interact Club ★ Judicial Club ★ Junior Civitan ★ Key Club ★ Math Team ★ Mu Alpha Theta ★ Multicultural Club ★ National Art Honor Society ★ National Honor Society | ★ Pep Club ★ Raider Team ★ Rifle Team ★ Scholars' Bowl ★ Science Club ★ Science Olympiad ★ Skills USA ★ Spanish Club ★ Spanish Honor Society ★ Student Council ★ Student Outreach for Christ ★ The Sheet ★ Theatre Center Stage ★ Tiger Ambassadors ★ Tiger TV[52] |
Athletics
Auburn High School athletics logo
Auburn High School offers 11 men's and 10 women's varsity sports, all in the large school (6A) classification of the Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA). Men's sports offered are basketball, baseball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, American football, wrestling, tennis, golf, swimming, and soccer. Women's sports offered are basketball, softball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, volleyball, tennis, golf, swimming, and soccer. Auburn High has placed in the top ten of the 6A all-sports rankings every year since 1995, ranking in the top four for each of the last three years. Auburn High has won a total of 34 team state championships.[53]
Auburn High's football team competes in Region 3 of class 6A along with Central High of Phenix City, Dothan, Enterprise, Northview High of Dothan, Opelika, Russell County, and Smiths Station.[54] Since 2004, Auburn High has produced more All-Pro National Football League players than any other high school. AHS alumni in the NFL include Marcus Washington of the Washington Redskins, Osi Umenyiora of the New York Giants, and Demarcus Ware of the Dallas Cowboys.[55]
An Auburn High School football player.
Auburn High's men's basketball team won the 6A state championship in 2005, and was state runner-up in 1924, 1987, 1991, and 1996. The team is coached by 24-year veteran Frank Tolbert, who holds a 550–256 record.[58] The Auburn High women's basketball team won the outdoor state championship in 1919.[59] The basketball team plays at the 1,500 seat Auburn Fieldhouse on the Auburn High campus. Basketball games are broadcast on WAUD AM 1230.[60]
An AHS athlete.
Auburn High's six track family sports—men's and women's outdoor track, men's and women's indoor track, and men's and women's cross country—have won twenty state championships. AHS men's outdoor track squad has won seven AHSAA titles and has placed in the top 12 at the state track meet each of the last eight years.[61] AHS women's outdoor team won a state title in 1986, and has placed in the top 12 at the state meet each of the last seven years.[62] Men's indoor track has won four state titles, and men's cross country has won the state crown six times. An Auburn High student won the state Decathlon in 1970.[63] Prior to the creation of the AHSAA state meet, Auburn High School won the Alabama Interscholastic Track and Field Meet in 1921 and 1923.[64]
Auburn High's men's soccer program, coached by Bo Morrissey, has reached the 6A state playoffs each year of the program's existence, including a final four appearance in 2005. The women's soccer program, coached by Mac Matthews, has reached the final four of the state playoffs each of the last four years (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). Soccer matches are broadcast on WANI AM 1400.[65] Auburn High's men's golf program has won the last four 6A state championships. AHS women's golf has placed in the top five in the state three times in the last six years, and placed second in 2007.[66] Auburn High's official home golf course is Indian Pines Golf Course, though the Auburn University Club and Robert Trent Jones' Grand National are often used as home courses. Divers on Auburn High School's swimming team have won nine state championships since 1988, and the women's swimming team has placed in the top five four times in the last six years at the state meet.[67] Auburn hosts swimming and diving meets at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.
Band
The Auburn High School Band was awarded the Sudler Flag of Honor by the John Philip Sousa Foundation as the top high school concert ensemble in the United States, Canada, and Japan in 1988.[68] The Auburn High Band has also been placed on the "Historic Roll of Honor of Distinguished High School Concert Bands in America" as a band which as attained "unusual levels of achievement nationally and which [is] considered to be of historical importance and influence to the nation's high school concert band programs."[69] The top concert band, the Auburn High School Honors Band, has an all-time ratings record of 347–4–0–0–0, has received less than a perfect rating only three times since 1946, and has received perfect ratings in from all judges since 1974. The Band has twice performed for the Music Educators National Conference, and in 1996 became the first high school band ever invited to perform for a College Band Directors National Association Conference.[70]
Auburn High School's jazz ensemble, the Lab Band, was named one of the top ten high school jazz bands in the United States in 1974, and in 1978 performed on the National Association of Jazz Educators "Project II" album as one of "The Nation's Most Outstanding Jazz Bands". The Lab Band has an all-judges record of 126–2–0–0–0, and has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.[71]
Science Olympiad
The Auburn High School Science Olympiad team has placed either first or second in the state, and thus has represented Alabama at the national competition, 10 out the past 12 years.[72]
Campus
| School Year | Enrollment |
|---|---|
| 2006-2007 | 1135 |
| 2005-2006 | 1095 |
| 2004-2005 | 1048 |
| 2003-2004 | 974 |
| 2002-2003 ★ | 915 |
| 2001-2002 | 1235 |
| 2000-2001 | 1272 |
| 1999-2000 | 1223 |
| 1998-1999 | 1171 |
| 1997-1998 | 1143 |
| ★ first year not including 9th grade students | |
A map of the Auburn High School campus.
The current Auburn High School campus was constructed in 1965, and originally consisted of four buildings; the 100, 200, 300, and 400 buildings. The 100 building contains the auditorium, cafeteria, and music and vocational classrooms, the 200 and 300 buildings contain academic classrooms including the aquatic biology laboratory (300) and the counselors' offices (200), and the 400 building contains a gymnasium and athletic facilities. In the 1970s, the 500 building, containing academic classrooms, and the 600 building, containing business and JROTC classrooms, were added.[6] An administration building was constructed in the 1980s, and the largest academic classroom building, the 800 building, containing classrooms, a library, and a multi-media room, was erected in 1995. The Auburn Fieldhouse, a competition gymnasium, was built in 2005, and a new academic building began construction in the spring of 2007.[75]
The campus contains 94 academic classrooms, a 1250-seat auditorium, a 1500-seat competition gym (the Auburn Fieldhouse), six tennis courts, a baseball field (Sam Welborn Field), a track, cafeteria, library, multi-media room, practice gym, and physical education fields. Off-campus athletic facilities include 7,120-seat Duck Samford Stadium, the Auburn Softball Complex, and the James E. Martin Aquatic Center.[76]
Technology
Auburn High School is in the initial stages of the Auburn City Schools' 21st Century Learning Initiative. As part of this initiative, every classroom will be equipped with a digital smartboard, and the entire campus will be covered by a wireless network. Starting in the 2007–2008 school year, students at Auburn High will be provided with a laptop computer to use both in school and at home. The initiative also provides training for teachers in integrating this technology into instruction.[77]
Student body
Auburn High School enrolled 1,135 students in the 2006–2007 school year.[78] Thirty percent of Auburn High's enrollment is African-American, five percent is of Asian descent, and the remainder is mostly white.[79] Twenty-four percent of enrolled students are eligible for federal free or reduced lunch programs.[80] Auburn High School has a 14.8:1 student-teacher ratio and a four-year drop-out rate of 3.01%.[81]
Traditions
Mascot
Auburn High's mascot is the tiger. The tiger was chosen because of its association with Auburn in Oliver Goldsmith's 1770 poem ''The Deserted Village''. The first line of the poem is "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain", while a later line describes Auburn as, "where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey."
Auburn High's costumed mascot is Samford, an anthropomorphic tiger. Samford was created in 1995 and named for three symbols of the school: Samford Avenue, which runs by the school; Duck Samford Stadium, Auburn High's football stadium; and Samford Hall, the most prominent building in Auburn. Kari Pierce was the first Samford in 1995.[82]
Alma Mater
:''Our alma mater, Auburn High''
:''We love to roam thy halls.''
:''Where knowledge grows and friendship glows''
:''Within thy dear old walls.''
:''You showed us how to make our way''
:''With steadfast faith in thee,''
:''To live aright from day to day''
:''In truth and loyalty.''
:''We offer you our song of praise''
:''As days go drifting by.''
:''We'll always cherish memories''
:''Of dear ole Auburn High.''
::::—Words and music by George Corradino and the Auburn High School Glee Club, 1955
Fight song
Auburn High's secondary fight song, "Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn" was Auburn High's fight song before "Hooray for Auburn" was written in 1961, and is played after a successful PAT conversion.
:''Glory, glory to ole Auburn!''
:''Glory, glory to ole Auburn!''
:''Glory, glory to ole Auburn!''
:''A - U - B - U - R - N''
::::—to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Auburn High School girls' baseball team, 1910s.
:''We’re loyal to you Auburn High,''
:''We’re loyal and true Auburn High,''
:''We’ll back you to stand,''
:''Against the best in the land,''
:''For we know you have sand Auburn High!''
::''Rah! Rah!''
:''Well, get in that game Auburn High,''
:''Go driving ahead Auburn High,''
:''Our team is our fame protector,''
:''Go boys, for we expect a touchdown for Auburn High!''
::::—to the tune of Illinois Loyalty
Student publications
The Auburn High School yearbook is ''The Tiger''. ''The Tiger'' has been published each year since 1945, and is produced by students on the yearbook staff.[84] In addition, Auburn High has a literary magazine, ''The Sheet''.[85]
The journalism classes at Auburn High print a monthly newspaper, the ''AHS Free Press''. The ''Free Press'' and its three predecessor student newspapers, the ''AHS Chronicle'', the ''Tiger Tales'', and the ''Tiger News'' have been published since the early 1950s. An earlier paper, the ''Young Ladies' Mirror'', was published by students in the 1850s.[86]
Starting in 2007, Auburn High students run a campus television station, known as ''Tiger TV''.[87]
Notable people
Mark Spencer, 1995 alumnus
Marcus Washington, 1996 alumnus
The following are notable people associated with Auburn High School. If the person was an Auburn High School student, the number in parentheses indicates the year of graduation; if the person was a faculty or staff member, that person's title and years of association are included.
★ John M. Darby (President, 1855–1858; Professor of Natural Science, 1855–1862) — botanist[88]
★ William P. Harrison (President, 1861–1862) — theologian and author, Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives[89]
★ James R. Dowdell (1863–64) — Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama[90]
★ William J. Samford (1864) — Governor of Alabama[91]
★ Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr. (1888) — academic, editor of the first anthology of Texas literature[92]
★ William Spratling (1917) — Silversmith and artist[93]
★ Charlie Gibson (Head football coach, 1923) — Major League Baseball player, Philadelphia Athletics[94]
★ Tom Sellers (1941) — Journalist, winner 1955 Pulitzer Prize[95]
★ John E. Pitts, Jr. (1942) — US Army brigadier general, director International Staff, Inter-American Defense Board[96]
★ Mary Lou Foy (1962) — Photojournalist, Picture Editor Washington Post[97]
★ Joe Beckwith (1973) — Major League Baseball pitcher[98]
★ Joe Turnham (1977) — Chairman, Alabama Democratic Party[99]
★ Vanessa Echols (1979) — News anchor, WRDQ and WFTV, Orlando, Florida[100]
★ Ted Vives (1982) — Composer[101]
★ Man or Astro-man? (1980s) — Surf punk band[102]
★ Ed Packard (1986) — Politician[103]
★ William Chen (1988) — Mathematician, winner in two 2006 World Series of Poker events[104]
★ Ace Atkins (1989) — Author, Pulitzer Prize - nominated journalist[105]
★ Robert Gibbs (1989) — Communications Director, Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign; Press Secretary, John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign[106]
★ Eric Harshbarger (1989) — LEGO artist[107]
★ James Fukai (1992) — Guitarist, Trust Company[108]
★ Tracy Rocker (Defensive coordinator, 1992–1993) — NFL football player, winner of college football's Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award[109]
★ Mark Spencer (1995) — President/CEO, Digium, creator of Asterisk PBX[110]
★ Marcus Washington (1996) — NFL football player[111]
★ Charles Johnson (1999) — political philosopher[112]
★ Osi Umenyiora (1999) — NFL football player
★ Demarcus Ware (2001) — NFL football player
★ Beachhead (fictional alumnus) — character in the series
Notes and references
1. ''Auburn High School Program of Study, 2007–2008'', (Auburn: Auburn High School, 2007), 2–3, 6;''Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006–2007'', retrieved July 13, 2007.
2. United States Bureau of Education, ''Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902'' (Washington: G.P.O., 1902); Mollie Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'' (S.l.: s.n., 1955), 72. Auburn High School is likely the oldest secondary school in the state; the 1902 report gives an 1843 date for the founding, which for existing schools, is preceded in that report only by the Marion Military Institute. As the 1843 date likely recognizes the the school's first secondary/collegiate program, not its founding, Hollifield's 1837 date would make Auburn High the oldest.
3. United States Bureau of Education, ''Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902''; United States Bureau of Education, ''Report of the Commissioner of Education made to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1890, with accompanying papers'' (Washington: G.P.O., 1890).
4. Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 73; Auburn High School, ''Auburn High School Catalogue, Session 1908–1909'' (Auburn: The Auburn High School, 1908).
5. Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, ''Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village'' (Auburn: s.n., 1996), 98; ''Lee County Bulletin'', August 30, 1956.
6. Alabama, Dept. of Education, ''Report of a partial survey of the Auburn City School System, 1977–78'', (SG023316–23331, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 1978).
7. Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert, "America's Best High Schools, 2006", ''Newsweek'' 147 (May 8, 2006): 50–54. The non-magnet ranking was taken by eliminating schools from the 2006 ''Newsweek'' list which used selective processes for admission. Tamar Hausman, "School Expenses", ''The Wall Street Journal, Southeast Journal'', May 13, 1998
8. J. Terry Jenkins, ''Auburn City Board of Education Presentation to the Auburn City Council'', January 3, 2007, p. 4; PSK12.com, Ranking of High Schools in Alabama, retrieved on April 8, 2007; Alabama State Department of Education, ''State Board of Education Report Card'', years 1994–1995 -- 2005–2006, records online from 1998–1999 through 2005-2006. Top five percent figure from comparison of individual school scores.
9. Data on All-sports rankings and state championships collated from the AHSAA website; John Philip Sousa Foundation, ''Sousa Foundation Sudler Flag of Honor'', retrieved July 13, 2007,
10. ''Auburn High School Program of Study, 2007–2008'', (Auburn: Auburn High School, 2007), 2–3, 6.
11. Ibid., 4–5.
12. Ibid., 13, 18–38. Classes offered for college credit are; Advanced Placement: AP Studio Art, French 105 (AP/IB), German 105 (AP/IB), Spanish 105 (AP/IB), AP Eleventh Grade English (AP English Language and Composition), AP Twelfth Grade English (AP English Literature and Composition), AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, Biology and Research (AP/IB), Chemistry and Research (AP/IB), AP European History, AP U.S. History, AP Economics, and AP Government; International Baccalaureate: IB Studio Art/Design, IB Art Research, French 105 (AP/IB), German 105 (AP/IB), Spanish 105 (AP/IB), IB Music Theory, IB English 11, IB English 12, IB Standard Level Math, IB Higher Level Math, Biology and Research (AP/IB), Chemistry and Research (AP/IB), IB History of the Americas I, IB History of the Americas II, and IB Economics; Technical Advanced Placement: up to 15 hours college credit in Agriscience, Business/Marketing, Health Science, Pre-engineering, and Industrial Systems Technology.
13. Auburn High School, ''Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006–2007'', retrieved July 8, 2006.
14. Kantrowitz and Wingert, "America's Best High Schools, 2006", 50–54. The non-magnet ranking was taken by eliminating schools from the 2006 ''Newsweek'' list which used selective processes for admission. Hausman, "School Expenses"; Trey Armistead, ''The Auburn High School Band - About Auburn High School'', retrieved July 8, 2007.
15. J. Terry Jenkins, ''Auburn City Board of Education Presentation to the Auburn City Council''.
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17. PSK12.com, ''Ranking of High Schools in Alabama'', retrieved on April 8, 2007; Alabama State Department of Education, ''State Board of Education Report Card'', years 1994–1995 -- 2005–2006, records online from 1998–1999 through 2005–2006. Top five percent figure from comparison of individual school scores.
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22. Mary Reese Frazer, ''Early History of Auburn'' (S.l.: s.n., 1920), 3; Ann Pearson, "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest Village of the Plain" in Alexander Nunn, ed., ''Lee County and Her Forebears'' (Montgomery: Herff Jones, 1983), 61; Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 72.
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24. ''South-Western Baptist'', May 3, 1855; Hollifield, ''Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain'', 73; Minnie Clare Boyd, ''Alabama in the Fifties'' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931), 138.
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31. Cooper, ''The Early History of Auburn'' 5; I.M.E. Blandin, ''History of Higher Education of Women in the South prior to 1860'' (New York: Neale Publishing, 1909), 105.
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37. Willis G. Clark, ''History of Education in Alabama, 1702–1889'' (Washington: G.P.O., 1889), 242–248; Pearson, "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest Village of the Plain", 72–73.
38. ''Acts of Alabama, 1884'', Act 398; R.W. Burton, ''Annual Report of Joseph A. Holifield, Pres. Bd. of Education, Auburn Dist. Alabama for Scholastic Year Ending September 30, 1886''.
39. United States Bureau of Education, ''Report of the Commissioner of Education made to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1890, with accompanying papers''.
40. Auburn Female Institute, ''Announcement of the Auburn Female Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 1894–95'' (Opelika, Ala.: R.J. Rice, 1894), 4, 6–7, 11–12.
41. Logue and Simms, ''Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village'', 50.
42. Auburn High School, ''Auburn High School Catalogue, Session 1908–1909''.
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