Huguenot High School
| Huguenot High School | |
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| Address | |
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7945 Forest Hill Avenue Richmond, Virginia 23225 United States |
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| Coordinates | 37°31′53.5″N 77°32′34″W / 37.531528°N 77.54278°WCoordinates: 37°31′53.5″N 77°32′34″W / 37.531528°N 77.54278°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public high school |
| Founded | September 6, 1960 |
| School district | Richmond Public Schools |
| Superintendent | Dr. Yvonne Brandon |
| Principal | Jafar Baraka |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,306 (2006-2007) |
| Language | English |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Kelly Green and Gold |
| Athletics conference |
Virginia High School League AAA Central Region AAA Dominion District |
| Mascot | Falcons |
| Website | Official Site |
Huguenot High School, part of the Richmond Public Schools system, is a high school located in Richmond, Virginia, United States, with grades 9–12. Huguenot High School was named in honor of the Huguenots, French Protestants who emigrated to the English Virginia Colony beginning in the early 18th century.
Huguenot High School and nearby Fred D. Thompson Middle School were built on land which was earlier known as "The Old Burton Place", a 165-acre (0.67 km2) tract with an antebellum farmhouse. The land, described by a historian as poor for farming due to the many rocks on the site, was purchased by J.R.F. and Lucy Burroughs, a childless couple. In 1889, they opened an orphanage originally called "The Home for Friendless Children". The devout couple never solicited for funds, but there are tales of the support they received anyway. When Mr. Burroughs died in 1915, he was buried at a site now surrounded by neighboring apartments. There, his tombstone reads "Faithful unto Death". Burroughs Street in nearby Bon Air was named for the couple.
After Mr. Burroughs died, the orphanage was taken over by others, and became known as the Bethany Home. It was supported by the community, notably including Bon Air Presbyterian Church, until it closed during the 1940s. Part of the facility was used for the elderly and disabled, and some of the land north of modern Forest Hill Avenue still in such use at the beginning of the 21st century.
Huguenot High School was built by Chesterfield County Public Schools in the Bon Air area and opened on September 6, 1960. About the same time, Meadowbrook High School, also located close to the border with Richmond, was built to a similar plan.
The first principal of the new Huguenot High, serving until 1968, was Gurney Holland Reid, a longtime principal of Manchester High School for whom G. H. Reid Elementary School was named by Chesterfield County. A fourteen classroom addition was completed around 1964. G. H. Reid retired at the end of the 1968-69 school year, the last before the city annexed the land occupied by the school the following January 1.
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