Auburn High School (Alabama)

Auburn High School
Address
Map
1701 E Samford Ave[1]

Auburn, Alabama
36830

United States
Coordinates32°36′13″N 85°26′50″W / 32.6037°N 85.4472°W / 32.6037; -85.4472
Information
School typePublic
Established1837 (187 years ago) (1837)
School districtAuburn City Schools
CEEB code010220
NCES School ID010021000036[2]
PrincipalShannon Pignato
Faculty107.00 (on an FTE basis)[2]
Grades10–12
Enrollment2,143 (2022–23)[2]
Student to teacher ratio20.03[2]
CampusCity: Small
Color(s)Royal blue and white
  
AthleticsAuburn High School Tigers
NicknameTigers
Websitewww.auburnschools.org/ahs

Auburn High School is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama, United States. 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.[3]

Founded in 1837 as Auburn Academy, Auburn High School is the oldest public secondary school in Alabama, and is the fifth-oldest extant public high school in the American South.[4] From 1852 through 1885, the school was known as the Auburn (Masonic) Female College, offering secondary and, prior to 1870, collegiate degrees.[5] From 1892 through 1908, the school was named the Auburn Female Institute, providing collegiate programs equivalent to an associates degree.[6] 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.[7] The school moved to its current campus in 2017.[8]

Auburn High was ranked the 28th best non-magnet public high school and 77th best 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.[9] Auburn High School averages seven National Merit Finalists a year, and has scored among the top five percent of Alabama high schools on statewide standardized tests each year since testing began in 1995.[10] Auburn High's varsity sporting teams have won 40 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.[11] Auburn High School has been competing in Science Olympiad since 2000, and has represented the state of Alabama at the national level every year since 2014.

  1. ^ GNIS for Auburn High School; USGS; December 1, 2003.
  2. ^ a b c d "Search for Public Schools - Auburn High School (010021000036)". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  3. ^ Auburn High School Program of Study, 2007–2008, (Auburn: Auburn High School, 2007), 2–3, 6;Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006–2007 Archived October 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved July 13, 2007; State of Alabama Department of Education, Enrollment by Ethnicity and Gender (School Level) Year 2015—2016 Archived August 6, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. January 3, 2016.
  4. ^ United States Bureau of Education, Annual report of the Commissioner of Education for the year ended 1902 (Washington: G.P.O., 1902), 1696, 1696–1879; Mollie Hollifield, Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain (S.l.: s.n., 1955), 72.
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ Hollifield, Auburn: Lovliest Village of the Plain, 73; Auburn High School, Auburn High School Catalogue, Session 1908–1909 (Auburn: The Auburn High School, 1908).
  7. ^ Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, Auburn, A Pictorial History of the Lovliest Village (Auburn: s.n., 1996), 98; Lee County Bulletin, August 30, 1956.
  8. ^ https://www.auburnschools.org/Page/2552 History of Auburn City Schools
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ 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 Archived April 14, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on April 8, 2007; Alabama State Department of Education, State Board of Education Report Card, years 1994–1995 – 2005–2006, records online Archived May 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine from 1998–1999 through 2005–2006. Top five percent figure from comparison of individual school scores.
  11. ^ Data on All-sports rankings and state championships collated from the AHSAA website; John Philip Sousa Foundation, Sousa Foundation Sudler Flag of Honor Archived July 21, 2001, at archive.today. Retrieved July 13, 2007.