Litchfield High School was a public

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, serving grades nine through twelve. LHS was founded in 1958 as Litchfield Junior High School and was converted into a high school in 1975. The school bears the name of the former president of

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and inventor of the first tubeless automobile tire, Paul Weeks Litchfield.Many schools honor Gadsden’s past
/ref> It closed after the 2005–2006 academic school year after the Gadsden City Board of Education voted to construct a new facility -

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- and consolidate Litchfield, Emma Sansom, and Gadsden High Schools into one school. Cory Middle school was later moved into the Litchfield High School buildings and renamed Litchfield Middle School.

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