Virgil I. Grissom High School
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7901 Bailey Cove Road Huntsville, Alabama 35802 United States |
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| Coordinates | 34°39′43″N 86°32′17″W / 34.662°N 86.538°WCoordinates: 34°39′43″N 86°32′17″W / 34.662°N 86.538°W |
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| Type | Public |
| Motto | "Id Facere Possumus" (We can do it) |
| Established | 1969 |
| School district | Huntsville City Schools |
| Superintendent | Casey Wardynski |
| Principal | Becky Balentine |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | 1,992 |
| Color(s) | Orange, Brown & White |
| Nickname | Tigers |
| Accreditation | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Newspaper | The Imprint |
| Yearbook | Invictus |
| Website | GHS official website |
Virgil I. Grissom High School, more commonly referred to as Grissom High School, is a public high school in Huntsville, Alabama, United States with approximately 2000 students in grades 9-12 from Southeast Huntsville. The school was named a 2007 Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. In the Newsweek ranking of schools throughout the nation for 2015, Grissom High School was ranked second best in the state and 390th nationally. Grissom was the only high school in Huntsville to make the 2015 list.
The school is located in Southeast Huntsville and serves an area of largely middle to upper-middle-class neighborhoods. The suburban middle schools within the area include: Mountain Gap Middle School, Challenger Middle School, and Whitesburg Middle School.
Grissom High School was founded in 1969 and is named for astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, killed in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Kennedy, Florida on January 27, 1967. Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and has ties to the space program. At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary and Ed White Middle School for Grissom's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.
In August 2012, the Huntsville City Schools announced plans to tear down the original two-story main high school building and replace it with a three-story structure at an estimated cost of $58 million. The rebuild would see ninth graders held at their feeder middle schools until construction is completed in 2016.
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