Avondale High School (DeKalb County, Georgia)
| Avondale High School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
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1192 Clarendon Avenue , 30002 United States | |
| Coordinates | 33°45′32″N 84°16′3″W / 33.75889°N 84.26750°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Established | 1954 |
| Status | Closed |
| Closed | May 20, 2011 |
| Grades | 8–12 |
Avondale High School is a former high school located in unincorporated Dekalb County, Georgia, United States; a part of the DeKalb County School District, it was adjacent to, but not inside, the City of Avondale Estates.[1][2] It closed in May 2011. Its former campus is now used exclusively by the DeKalb School of the Arts, a magnet school.
Its feeder schools were Avondale Middle, Avondale Elementary, Forest Hills Elementary, Knollwood Elementary, Midway Elementary, and Robert Shaw Elementary.
History
[edit]The school was constructed in 1954. The academic performance of the school declined by the 1990s. It was scheduled to close after May 20, 2011.[3]
Athletics
[edit]Under the guidance of Head Coaches Calvin Ramsey (1951-1969) and Crawford Kennedy (1970-1988), the Avondale Blue Devils football team was one of the top programs in Georgia from the 1950s-1979. Avondale won 11 region championships and 3 state championships (1958-tied with Thomasville, 1963, and 1976).[4] The Blue Devils were also state runners-up 4 times (1957, 1960, 1964, and 1971).[4] During this time, Avondale featured 61 players who were named to the All-State team.[4] In November 1978, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution cited Avondale as the winningest high school football team in Georgia for the previous 20 years (1958-1978 record 199-30-6 for a winning percentage of 85.96%).[5] However, during the 1990s and 2000s the football program had declined.[3] But in the mid 2000s, the Lady Blue Devils basketball team brought the winning spirit back to Avondale and won the Class 3A State championship in 2006.
Notable alumni
[edit] | This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. (February 2022) |
- Stacey Abrams
- Erica Ash
- Cliff Austin
- Danny Buggs
- Omar J. Dorsey
- Leslie Abrams Gardner
- Donald Glover
- Chip Kell
- Dorian Missick
- Kelsey Scott
- Ray Stevens
References
[edit]- ^ "Zoning Map." City of Avondale Estates. Retrieved on May 31, 2017.
- ^ Avondale High School website Archived 2010-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Hollis, John (2011-05-17). "End of an Era Nears at Avondale High School". Decatur Patch. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
- ^ a b c "School Index - GHSFHA". ghsfha.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-11.
- ^ https://ghsfha.org/w/Special:SchoolIndex?status=all&start_season=1958&season=1978 [dead link]
External links
[edit]- Avondale High School at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- Attendance boundary at the Wayback Machine (archived August 16, 2009)
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