Auburn High School

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Auburn High School
Location
405 S. Dean Road
Auburn, Alabama, 36830
USA
Information
School district Auburn City
Principal Cathy Long
Staff 83
Enrollment

1,152 (2007)
School type Public high school
Grades 10–12
Language English
Campus Suburban
Mascot Tigers
Color(s) Royal blue and white         
Founded 1837
Homepage http://www.auburnschools.org/ahs

Auburn High School is a public high school in Auburn, Alabama, United States, enrolling 1152 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 the oldest public secondary school in Alabama, and is the third-oldest extant public high school in the United States south of Philadelphia.[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]

Contents

[edit] Academics

[edit] Profile

An aerial photo of Auburn High School
An aerial photo of Auburn High School

Auburn High School, the 18th–largest high school in Alabama, enrolled 1,152 students in the 2007–2008 school year.[10] Thirty-one percent of Auburn High's enrollment is African American, five percent is of Asian descent, sixty-two percent is of European descent, and the remainder is mostly Hispanic.[11] Thirty-six languages are spoken in the homes of Auburn High School students, and twenty-four percent of enrolled students are eligible for federal free or reduced lunch programs.[12] Auburn High School has a 14.8:1 student-teacher ratio and a four-year drop-out rate of 3.01%.[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 and one of the top 100 public high schools in the United States by the Associated Press based on Advanced Placement test scores. The school was rated 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] Three Auburn High alumni have been named Fulbright Scholars, two Truman Scholars, and one alumnus a Marshall Scholar.[16] 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.[17]

[edit] Curriculum

The Auburn High School courtyard
The Auburn High School courtyard

Auburn High School is a comprehensive secondary school along the classic American model. The Auburn High School curriculum includes 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 mathematics courses. The school offers ninety–one elective courses and students may elect to major in one of six programs: Arts and Humanities; Business, Marketing and Management; Environmental and Agricultural Systems; Family and Consumer Sciences; Health Sciences; and Industrial, Manufacturing, Engineering and Communication. Systems Technology. Individual majors are offered in Performing Arts; International Studies; Military Science; Business Information Technology; Accounting; Merchandising; Power, Structural and Technical Systems; Restaurant, Food and Beverage Service; Therapeutic Services; Diagnostic Services; Maintenance, Installation and Repair; Engineering and Technology; Architecture and Construction; Printing Techniques; Visual Arts; and Communication.[18]

Auburn High School awards three diploma endorsements indicating advanced study in a particular field, as well as the International Baccalaureate Diploma.[19] Auburn High offers 32 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.[20]

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.[21]

[edit] 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.[22] 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.[24] 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.[25]

[edit] History

Auburn Female College graduation invitation, 1852
Auburn Female College graduation invitation, 1852
The Auburn Female Institute class of 1897
The Auburn Female Institute class of 1897
An Auburn High School agriculture class, 1926
An Auburn High School agriculture class, 1926
The Auburn High School football team, 1929
The Auburn High School football team, 1929

[edit] Beginnings

Auburn High School was founded as a private frontier school in 1837, less than three years after the Auburn area had been opened to settlement.[26] A two-story frame school building was constructed in 1838, and in the early 1840s a separate male academy was created.[27] In 1843, the remaining school was named the "Auburn Female College".[28]

The Auburn Female College attracted hundreds of boarding students to Auburn in the 1840s and 1850s, offering 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.[29] The school received a legislative charter as a Mason school in 1852, becoming the "Auburn Masonic Female College".[30]

By the 1850s, the school physical plant had been 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.[31] By 1855, the school enrolled 110 students.[32] 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.[33] A significant part of the curriculum included foreign languages; courses in Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, German, and Italian were offered in 1861.[34] The Auburn Masonic Female College 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.[35]

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.[36] 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.[37] As the "principal teacher", W.F. Slaton, was 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.[38]

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.[39]

[edit] From private college to public high school

Around 1870, the school reopened in the building formerly occupied by the male academy.[40] The school retained the name "Auburn Female College", despite admitting both boys and girls.[41]

State funding for the school was minimal until the late 1870s, and the town's economic condition was poor, making it difficult to support the school.[42] 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.[43] 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.[44]

In 1892, Auburn University (then the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College) decided to admit women. 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 changed to the "Auburn Female Institute".[45]

In 1899, a two-story building was built for Auburn High.[46] In 1908, the school dropped the post-secondary program and became "Auburn High School" once more.[47] Around 1910, Auburn High fielded its first basketball team, and in 1911, its first football squad.[48]

[edit] 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.[49]

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.[50] Auburn High added vocational courses to the curriculum in 1918, the eighth high school in the state to implement such a program.[51] 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.[52] 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.[53] A new school building was constructed in 1931, and in 1956, the school was officially renamed Auburn High School.[54]

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.[55]

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.[56]

[edit] School buildings

The following are images of buildings which have housed Auburn High School.

Chapel, 1846-1870
1870-1899
1899-1915
1915-1931
1931-1965
1966-present

[edit] Extracurricular organizations

Auburn High School offers the following academic clubs, athletic teams, and service organizations.

  • 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[57]

[edit] Athletics

Auburn High School athletics logo
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.[58]

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.[59] 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.[60]

An Auburn High School swimmer at the 2005 Alabama High School Athletic Association state meet
An Auburn High School swimmer at the 2005 Alabama High School Athletic Association state meet

Auburn High's football team was organized in 1911, and has an all-time record of 494–338–32. 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.[61]The football team's home field is 7,120- seat Duck Samford Stadium. Football games are broadcast on the radio station WAUD AM 1230.[62]

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. Since 1980, the team has won the region championship eleven times and has reached the playoffs nineteen times.[63] The team is coached by 26-year veteran Frank Tolbert, who holds a 598–275 record.[64] The Auburn High women's basketball team won the state championship in 1919.[65] The basketball team plays at the 1,600 seat Auburn Fieldhouse on the Auburn High campus. Basketball games are broadcast on WAUD AM 1230.[66]

Auburn High School volleyball players
Auburn High School volleyball players

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.[67] 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.[68] 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.[69] Prior to the creation of the AHSAA state meet, Auburn High School won the Alabama Interscholastic Track and Field Meet in 1921 and 1923.[70]

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.[71] 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.[72] 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.[73] Auburn hosts swimming and diving meets at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center.

[edit] 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.[74] 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."[75] 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.[76]

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.[77]

[edit] 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.[78]

[edit] Campus

Student Enrollment History
School Year Enrollment
2007-2008 1152
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
*first year not including 9th grade students
A map of the Auburn High School campus
A map of the Auburn High School campus

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.[79]

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.[80] 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.[81] Outdoor areas include "The Hill", a slope directly south of the 100 building and traditional site of senior pranks, and "The Courtyard", between the 200, 300, 400, and 500 buildings.[82]

The campus contains 94 academic classrooms, a 1,250-seat auditorium, a 1,600-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.[83] The school maintains a 1.16:1 student–to–computer ratio, with all classrooms having wired (100 Mbit/s) Internet connections and LCD projectors, while the campus as a whole is covered by a wireless network.[84]

[edit] Traditions

[edit] 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.[85]

[edit] School songs

The Auburn High School "Alma Mater" is Auburn High's school song. For athletic events, Auburn High uses two fight songs, "Hooray for Auburn!"—the primary fight song—and "Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn".

[edit] Alma Mater

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The Auburn High School "Alma Mater" was written in 1955 by band and choral director George Corradino and members of the Auburn High School Glee Club. It replaced a previous alma mater of unknown origins. The "Alma Mater" is used at academic ceremonies and at some athletic events. A common epithet for the school used by students and alumni, "dear old Auburn High", is taken from the last line of the song.[86]

[edit] Fight songs
Main article: Hooray for Auburn!

Auburn High School's primary fight song is "Hooray for Auburn!". The lyrics to "Hooray for Auburn!" come from a cheer that was commonly used in the mid-twentieth century. In 1961, Auburn High School band director Tommy Goff wrote music to fit those lyrics to create the current fight song. In subsequent years, the fight song was adopted by other schools, including Prattville High School and Opelika High School. At football games, "Hooray for Auburn!" is played after a touchdown.[87]

"Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn"—often simply "Glory"—was Auburn High's fight song before "Hooray for Auburn!" was written in 1961 and is currently a secondary fight song of Auburn High. "Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn" has the tune of the chorus of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", while the lyrics are identical to those of the University of Georgia's "Glory, Glory" but substitute the word "Auburn" for "Georgia". At football games, "Glory, Glory to Ole Auburn" is played after a successful PAT conversion.[88]

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For the 1955 football season, Auburn High used the Alabama Polytechnic Institute fight song "War Eagle". An earlier school song, "We're Loyal to You, Auburn High", was used from the 1920s through the 1940s. "We're Loyal to You, Auburn High" has the melody of "Illinois Loyalty".[89]

[edit] 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.[90] In addition, Auburn High has a literary magazine, The Sheet.[91]

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.[92]

Starting in 2007, Auburn High students run a campus television station, known as Tiger TV.[93]

[edit] Notable people

Mark Spencer, 1995 alumnus
Mark Spencer, 1995 alumnus
Marcus Washington, 1996 alumnus
Marcus Washington, 1996 alumnus
Main article: List of Auburn High School people

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.

[edit] 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; State of Alabama Department of Education, Enrollment by Ethnicity and Gender (school level) - 2007-2008, retrieved November 8, 2007.
  2. ^ 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.
  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. ^ Enrollment comparisons using grades 10-12 as collected by the Alabama High School Athletic Association from 40-day count reports, Alabama High School Athletic Association, Classification Enrollments - 2008-10, retrieved November 20, 2007; State of Alabama Department of Education, Enrollment by Ethnicity and Gender (school level) - 2007-2008.
  11. ^ State of Alabama Department of Education, Enrollment by Ethnicity and Gender (school level) - 2007-2008.
  12. ^ Intel Corporation, Technology as a Tool for System-wide Transformation, Part 1, (2008) 7; Mitch Sneed and Beverly Harvey, "Schools Seeing New Mix", Opelika-Auburn News, December 10, 2006; Alabama State Department of Education, State Board of Education School Report Card for 2005-2006 - Auburn High School, retrieved January 21, 2007.
  13. ^ SchoolTree.org, Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama - School Tree; Alabama State Department of Education, State Board of Education School Report Card for 2005-2006 – Auburn High School.
  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. ^ Auburn University, AU COLLEGE OF BUSINESS TO HOST AUBURNBANK CHAIR AS VISITING EXECUTIVE, retrieved November 3, 2007; University of Michigan, University of Michigan Faculty and Staff: Kyle D. Logue, retrieved November 3, 2007; Sean Selman, "Senior dies in car accident", Auburn Plainsman, October 1, 1992; US Fellows Directory: Tanisha V. Carino, retrieved November 2, 2007; UAB Junior Akofa Bonsi Named Truman Scholar, retrieved November 3, 2007; Smith College, Emma Clark ’06: Fulbright Scholar, Botswana, Africa, retrieved November 3, 2007.
  17. ^ "AHS scholarship winners", Opelika-Auburn News, May 23, 2007; "Congratulations AHS scholarship winners!", The Auburn Villager, May 17, 2007.
  18. ^ Auburn High School Program of Study, 2008–2009, (Auburn: Auburn High School, 2008), 3–4, 7–14, 21–40.
  19. ^ Ibid., 5–6.
  20. ^ Ibid., 15–16, 21–40. 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, AP Computer Science, AP/IB Biology, AP/IB Chemistry, 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 Theatre, IB Standard Level Math, IB Higher Level Math, AP/IB Biology, AP/IB Chemistry, 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.
  21. ^ Auburn High School, Auburn High School Student Handbook, 2006–2007, retrieved July 8, 2006.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ ALSDE Reports - Auburn City Schools - Auburn High School. Alabama State Department of Education. Retrieved on 2007-09-16.
  24. ^ a b c Auburn High School, Alabama Public School - College Prep - SchoolMatters. SchoolMatters, a service of Standard & Poor's. Retrieved on 2007-04-08.
  25. ^ Beverly Harvey, "More students taking advanced placement courses", Opelika-Auburn News, February 8, 2007.
  26. ^ 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.
  27. ^ 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.
  28. ^ 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), 1696.
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