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Avondale High School (DeKalb County, Georgia)

Coordinates: 33°45′32″N 84°16′3″W / 33.75889°N 84.26750°W / 33.75889; -84.26750
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Avondale High School
Address
Map
1192 Clarendon Avenue

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30002

United States
Coordinates33°45′32″N 84°16′3″W / 33.75889°N 84.26750°W / 33.75889; -84.26750
Information
TypePublic high school
Established1954
StatusClosed
ClosedMay 20, 2011
Grades8–12

Avondale High School is a former high school located in unincorporated Dekalb County, Georgia, United States; a part of the DeKalb County School District, it was adjacent to, but not inside, the City of Avondale Estates.[1][2] It closed in May 2011. Its former campus is now used exclusively by the DeKalb School of the Arts, a magnet school.

Its feeder schools were Avondale Middle, Avondale Elementary, Forest Hills Elementary, Knollwood Elementary, Midway Elementary, and Robert Shaw Elementary.

History

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The school was constructed in 1954. The academic performance of the school declined by the 1990s. It was scheduled to close after May 20, 2011.[3]

Athletics

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Under the guidance of Head Coaches Calvin Ramsey (1951-1969) and Crawford Kennedy (1970-1988), the Avondale Blue Devils football team was one of the top programs in Georgia from the 1950s-1979. Avondale won 11 region championships and 3 state championships (1958-tied with Thomasville, 1963, and 1976).[4] The Blue Devils were also state runners-up 4 times (1957, 1960, 1964, and 1971).[4] During this time, Avondale featured 61 players who were named to the All-State team.[4] In November 1978, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution cited Avondale as the winningest high school football team in Georgia for the previous 20 years (1958-1978 record 199-30-6 for a winning percentage of 85.96%).[5] However, during the 1990s and 2000s the football program had declined.[3] But in the mid 2000s, the Lady Blue Devils basketball team brought the winning spirit back to Avondale and won the Class 3A State championship in 2006.

Notable alumni

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References

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  1. ^ "Zoning Map." City of Avondale Estates. Retrieved on May 31, 2017.
  2. ^ Avondale High School website Archived 2010-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b Hollis, John (2011-05-17). "End of an Era Nears at Avondale High School". Decatur Patch. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  4. ^ a b c "School Index - GHSFHA". ghsfha.org. Archived from the original on 2017-06-11.
  5. ^ https://ghsfha.org/w/Special:SchoolIndex?status=all&start_season=1958&season=1978 [dead link]
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