Hunters Lane Comprehensive High School

Hunters Lane Comprehensive High School
Location
1150 Hunters Lane
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Information
Type Comprehensive High School
Motto "provide learning opportunities in a safe environment, ensuring the success of students in our technology-driven world."
Established 1986
Principal Dr. Susan Kessler
Grades 9 - 12
School Color(s) orange and navy blue
Athletics TSSAA
Mascot Warriors
Website [1]

Hunters Lane Comprehensive High School (commonly Hunters Lane, HLHS) is a public school in Nashville, Tennessee, operated by Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. The school is located at 36°16'45.16"N 86°45'8.63"W. The school opened in 1986 and had its first graduating class in 1987. It serves approximately 2000 students.

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Inception

Hunters Lane Comprehensive High School opened in 1986 after closing Goodlettsville High School and Madison High School. Incidentally, the colors for the school's sports teams are orange and royal blue, a combination of the Blue of Goodlettsville High School's Trojans and the Orange of Madison High School's Rams.

Programs

Hunters Lane is noted for its local, state, national, and international presence in sports and performance arts. Sports teams such as the baseball, football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's track and field, and men's and women's tennis teams are frequently accepted to tournament play following regular season play. Hunters Lane features an award-winning marching band, internationally acclaimed Chamber Choir, called the Madrigals (under the direction of Ms. Kim Wonders), and a newly designated Grammy Signature music education program. Also featured for students are classes in the culinary and vocational arts, with Woodworking, Horticulture (the school operates its own greenhouse), Culinary Arts, and Metal Working classes available. The school maintains a U.S. Army JROTC battalion, under the supervision of LTC Barry S. Sprouse, U.S. Army (Ret.) and SGM H. Richard Mahoney, U.S. Army (Ret.). The school formerly featured a Forensic team, which is a speech and debate club which participates in events such as Student Congress, National Extemporaneous Speaking, and Prose and Poetry Interpretation. The team was a perennial contender for top team in the Metro Forensic League, often placing third behind Antioch and Overton High Schools.

International Baccalaureate Programme (IB)

In 2000, the school received the approval to become a member of the International Baccalaureate Programme, or IB, an international program which provides advanced education to more intelligent children seeking more of a challenge. In 2004, Hunters Lane saw its first IB class graduate, making Hunters Lane High School the first school in the State of Tennessee to successfully initiate and graduate an IB program class.

Notable graduates

High Schools
Academy at Old Cockrill  • Antioch  • Cane Ridge  • East Literature  • Glencliff  • Hillsboro  • Hillwood  • Hume-Fogg  • Hunters Lane  • Martin Luther King  • Maplewood  • McGavock  • Middle College  • Nashville Big Picture  • Nashville School of the Arts  • John Overton  • Pearl-Cohn  • Stratford  • Whites Creek
Middle Schools
Margaret Allen  • Antioch  • Apollo  • Bailey  • Bass  • Jere Baxter  • Bellevue  • Brick Church  • Cameron  • I.T. Creswell  • Croft  • Donelson  • DuPont Hadley  • DuPont Tyler  • John Early  • East Literature  • Ewing Park  • Goodlettsville  • Gra-Mar  • Haynes  • Head  • H.G. Hill  • Joelton  • J.F. Kennedy  • KIPP  • Litton  • Madison  • Thurgood Marshall  • McKissack  • McMurray  • Meigs  • Moore  • Neely's Bend  • Oliver  • Rose Park  • Two Rivers  • Martha Vaught  • West End  • Wright
Elementary Schools
Amqui  • Bellshire  • Binkley  • Bordeaux  • Brookmeade  • Buena Vista  • Caldwell  • Carter-Lawrence  • Chadwell  • Charlotte Park  • Cockrill  • Cole  • Hattie Cotton  • Crieve Hall  • Cumberland  • Dodson  • DuPont  • Eakin  • Thomas Edison  • Fall-Hamilton  • Gateway  • Glencliff  • Glendale  • Glengarry  • Glenn  • Glenview  • Goodlettsville  • Gower  • Granbery  • Alex Green  • Julia Green  • Harpeth Valley  • Haywood  • Hermitage  • Hickman  • Cora Howe  • Hull-Jackson  • Inglewood  • Andrew Jackson  • Joelton  • Jones Paideia  • Tom Joy  • A.Z. Kelley  • Kirkpatrick  • Lakeview  • Lillard  • Lockeland  • Ruby Major  • Maxwell  • McGavock  • Mills  • Moss  • Mt. View  • Napier  • Neely's Bend  • Old Center  • Paragon Mills  • Park Avenue  • Pennington  • Percy Priest  • Rosebank  • Ross  • Shayne  • Shwab  • Smithson-Craighead  • Stanford  • Stratton  • Sylvan Park  • Tulip Grove  • Tusculum  • Una  • Warner  • Westmeade  • Whitsitt
Alternative Learning Centers
Baxter  • Cohn  • McCann
Special Education Schools
Harris-Hillman  • Cora Howe  • Murrell  • Johnson
Charter Schools
KIPP  • LEAD  • Smithson-Craighead
Former High Schools
North High School  • Pearl High School  • Meigs High School  • Cameron High School  • Madison High School  • Goodletsville High School  • Cohn High School • Litton High School  • Nashville Central High School  • Bellevue High School  • Donelson High School  • West High School  • Dupont High School  • Two Rivers High School  • Joelton High School  • Cumberland High School
Other Historical Schools
Parmer Elementary  • Tarbox School  • New Hominy School  • Washington Junior High  • Woodmont Elementary