Public school in Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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
Sue Grafton , mystery writer
[9]
Jack Harlow , rapper
Oksana Masters , Paralympic rower and cross-country skier; bronze medalist at the
2012 Summer Paralympics and silver medalist at the
2014 Winter Paralympics
[10]
Martha Rofheart (née Jones), actress & writer who grew up at 2120 Portland in the 1920s & 30s, graduated in 1932/33.
Hunter S. Thompson , journalist and author (graduated from
Louisville Male High School )
[11]
Charlie Tyra , first All-American basketball player at the University of Louisville
[12]
Jess Weixler , actress
Rick Wilson , basketball player, retired
Jonathan Wolff , music composer
John Yarmuth , U.S. Representative from Kentucky
[13]
See also
References
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"Atherton High" . National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
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"Atherton High School" . Kentucky High School Athletic Association . Retrieved 2024-03-21 .
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"GOODBYE REBELS: Atherton High School announces new mascot" . Louisville, KY:
WDRB . September 28, 2021. Retrieved September 29, 2021 .
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"School Report Card 2015-2016 School/District Details" . Kentucky Department Of Education. Archived from
the original (XLSX) on October 27, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2016 .
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Atherton High School History Atherton High School.
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Atherton High School
Archived 2016-08-27 at the
Wayback Machine Jefferson County Public Schools History.
^ Moore, Josh (December 26, 2015).
"Unstoppable: Small-town scoring machine Whitney Creech running with legends" .
Lexington Herald-Leader . Retrieved 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.
^ Dave Boucher and Adam Tamburin, The Tennessean (August 6, 2016).
"Jane Eskind, Tennessee trailblazer and Louisville native, dead at 83" . Courier-journal.com. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
^ Beattie, Elisabeth L. (2003).
Conversations with Kentucky Writers .
University of Kentucky Press . p. 85.
ISBN
978-0-8131-9043-3 .
^ Brownstein, Glenn (March 9, 2014).
"Louisville's Oksana Masters wins milestone silver medal in Winter Paralympics skiing" .
The Courier-Journal . Retrieved March 10, 2014 . (soft paywall)
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"Remembering the Turbulent Life of a 'Gonzo' Writer" .
NPR . 2007-11-18.
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"Charlie Tyra Statistics" .
Basketball Reference .
Archived from the original on 25 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-12 .
^ Wolfson, Andrew (2006-11-01). "ELECTION 2006; Putting beliefs to the test".
Courier-Journal . p. 1A.
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