West Gadsden High School was a public secondary school in

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, operated by

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. It is adjacent to the city of

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,About the School
" West Gadsden High School. Retrieved on April 5, 2017. "200 Providence Road Quincy, Florida 32351" and served grades 5–12. Its building now houses West Gadsden Middle School. The colors were silver and black and the mascot was the panther.Henry, Jim. "Gearing up in West Gadsden: There are 19 coaching vacancies still up for grabs at the new school." ''

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''. July 14, 2004. p. C1. .

History

The school was first established in the summer of 2004, housing students formerly attending Greensboro High School and

Chattahoochee High School Chattahoochee High School (colloquially referred to as "Hooch") is a public high school in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States, within the Fulton County School System. It is located next to its only feeder school, Taylor Road Middle School. ...

. A group of students from those two high schools selected the mascot, school name, and school colors.Schools
" Town of Greensboro. Retrieved on April 6, 2017. They intentionally chose not to use the colors and mascots used by the two previous schools so that West Gadsden High would have a new identity. The new school was to have a larger course offering than the previous Chattahoochee High.Vann, Kim McCoy. "New West Gadsden High School brings together former rivals." ''

''. September 3, 2004. p. 1. . It opened with 487 students. In its first year it held its classes at the former Greensboro High School, at 559 Greensboro Highway. There were four portable classrooms at the school during its first year. Its permanent campus, to be built next to the Greensboro Elementary building at the time, was scheduled to open in 2005. By 2007 the school moved into its current location, at 200 Providence Road. The former campus is now Greensboro Elementary School. In 2017 it had approximately 482 students. As of March 2017 West Gadsden High was 76% occupied. On Tuesday April 4, 2017 the school board was scheduled to vote on whether East Gadsden High and the high school division of West Gadsden High should consolidate into a single high school. The board voted 3-2 to consolidate. The school would be renamed to West Gadsden Middle School as only middle school grades would remain. As part of the consolidation, grades 4-5 will move from area elementary schools to what would become West Gadsden Middle School. In March 2017 several members of the West Gadsden High community had opposed the consolidation plans. The former principal of West Gadsden High, Juliette Jackson, became the principal of the consolidated

Gadsden County High School Gadsden County High School, known as East Gadsden High School (EGHS) until 2016, was a public high school in unincorporated Gadsden County, Florida, operated by Gadsden County School District. It is between Havana and Quincy, and it has a "Hava ...

Athletics

The first athletic director and main coach of the

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team for West Gadsden was Robert Jackson, who served in that capacity at Greensboro High until the founding of West Gadsden High. Brian Miller of the ''

'' stated that the 2000s high school mergers damaged the school athletic spirit in the county as the former school identities were discarded. In October 2004 Jackson stated "We haven't figured out what we are all about. We don't have a flavor yet. We are not chocolate, we are not vanilla, we are not strawberry. We haven't played together long enough yet to figure it out, but we will." Joey Striplin, previously the head American football coach at West Gadsden, became the head coach at East Gadsden High School in January 2017.

Gallery

File:Greensboro Elementary School, Greensboro, Florida.jpg, Greensboro Elementary School, formerly West Gadsden High School

References

External links

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