Dobyns Bennett High School
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Kingsport, Tennessee |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1918 |
| School district | Kingsport City Schools |
| Principal | Dr. Chris Hampton |
| Enrollment | 1822 |
| Color(s) | Maroon and Grey |
| Mascot | Indian |
| Website | kingsport.dbhs.schoolfusion.us |
Kingsport, Tennessee
United States
Dobyns-Bennett High School is a high school (grades 9–12) in Kingsport, Tennessee. It typically educates around 1,800 students, although enrollment for the 2014–15 academic year exceeded 2,100 students.
As a part of Kingsport City Schools, students must be city residents paying city taxes to attend. Students that are not residents of the city may pay a tuition fee to attend. This tuition is collected to account for tax differences between county and city residents in order to help subsidize the cost of school programs and facilities. Dobyns-Bennett features a variety of programs for students of all academic levels. The many classes offered cater to many types of students who may want to attend technical schools or universities across the nation.
Dobyns-Bennett High School was first organized as a regular standard high school in 1918–19 As Central High School. Before that date some high school work had been done as advanced work in the elementary schools. The high school was approved by the State Board of Education in 1919 and was accredited by the Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges in 1922.
The first organized high school was housed in a wooden building located where the First Presbyterian Church now stands. The Central High School building was completed in 1918 and was used until 1926 when the high school was moved to new quarters at the present John Sevier Middle School. To honor the first mayor of the city, J. W. Dobyns, and the first Chairman of the Board of Education, W. M. Bennett. The name was changed in 1926 to Dobyns-Bennett High School.
Because Dobyns-Bennett included both junior high school and high school, the building soon proved inadequate and, in 1934, the junior high was moved to Lincoln, and a new Lincoln School was built. In 1946–47 it became evident that Dobyns-Bennett was again being outgrown. Some of the freshmen had classes and home rooms at the junior high. In July 1947, disaster struck Dobyns-Bennett when the auditorium burned, and the shop and home economics department were destroyed. A new auditorium and a cafeteria below it were completed in December 1948. Construction also began on additions to the building in the fall of 1948, which were completed a year later. From the late 1920s until desegregation was achieved in 1966, Kingsport's Black students attended Frederick Douglass High School, located on Louis Street in the Riverview neighborhood. Douglass closed its doors in 1966, and its students were assimilated into the Dobyns-Bennett student body, one of the last segregated schools in the region to do so. At the time, Douglass High School was the largest African-American school in Upper East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Southeast Kentucky, and the largest between Knoxville, Tennessee and Roanoke, Virginia. By 1958, D-B was beginning to outgrow its facilities again and, when one looked ahead, there was a need for a still larger, more comprehensive, school structure.
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