Glencliff High School

Glencliff Comprehensive High School is a public school in Nashville, Tennessee. It was built in 1956 and added onto in 1977.

According to the 1963 Roundup (Glencliff High School yearbook), the area in which Glencliff High School is located was until recent years fertile farmland lying on the outskirts of Nashville. This section remained largely unpopulated until the late 1950s, at which time industrial expansion and metropolitan growth led to extensive residential development, which yet continues to characterize this area. Dominated by such industrial and commercial establishments as AVCO, Aladdin Industries, and the Municipal Airport, the area inevitably grew, attracting secondary businesses, churches, schools, and finally a high school.

Glencliff High School takes its name from the Glencliff Estate. The site of the school is a part of the original property of one of Nashville’s oldest families, W. A. Woodroof. The Glencliff Mansion, which is still standing on what is the Mill Creek Valley Road (old name) or Antioch Pike (new name), was the home of that family. The house predates the Civil War, and within the vicinity of it General Buell amassed his forces during the Battle of Nashville.

Glencliff High School for the first time in 1957 opened its doors to receive 350 seventh and eighth graders and 13 faculty members. Five years later, the spring of 1962, the first senior class composed of 125 members was graduated. Glencliff is now in its 8th year, with a student body of 1,763 students and 65 faculty members. These have been seven years of progress, growth and development. But only the roots of Glencliff lie buried in the past; the future will witness perennially blossoming truth, knowledge, and wisdom.

Mr. B. H. Thompson, principal of Glencliff, has deep roots in Davidson County having coached for 21 years prior to becoming principal. Since that time, he has performed in an outstanding manner his duties of building Glencliff into one of the finest schools in the metropolitan school system. His education background includes a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science from Middle Tennessee State College.

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools

High Schools	Academy at Old Cockrill Antioch Cane Ridge East Nashville 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 Nashville 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 Rose Park Two Rivers Martha Vaught West End William Henry Oliver Wright

Elementary Schools	Amqui Bellshire Binkley Brookmeade Buena Vista Caldwell Carter-Lawrence Cane Ridge 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 Shayne Shwab Smithson-Craighead Smith Springs Stanford Stratton Sylvan Park Tulip Grove Tusculum Una Warner Waverly-Belmont Westmeade Whitsitt

Alternative Learning Centers	Baxter Cohn McCann

Special Education Schools	Harris-Hillman Cora Howe Murrell Johnson

Charter Elementary Schools	Drexel Preparatory East End Preparatory Explore! Community School Nashville Classical Purpose Preparatory Smithson-Craighead Academy

Charter Middle Schools	Boy's Preparatory Brick Church College Preparatory Cameron Preparatory Intrepid Preparatory KIPP Academy Nashville KIPP College Preparatory Knowledge Academy LEAD Academy LEAD Preparatory Southeast Liberty Collegiate Academy Nashville Academy of Computer Science Nashville Preparatory New Vision Academy STEM Preparatory Academy Valor Collegiate Academy

Charter High Schools	KIPP Nashville Collegiate High School LEAD Academy

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

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