List of APS Schools – According to the ATLANTA CITY DIRECTORY of 1923

Notes: The APS opened 3 grammar schools and two high schools in 1872. The Freedman’s Bureau established 2 schools for Negro children in 1866

WHITE SCHOOLS
School Name / Location / Principal / Notes
B.L. McCullough, business mgr. / 4th Floor, City Hall building / None
Adair, George W. / Catherine corner of Mayland / Ms. Lucille Nolan
Atlanta Normal Training / 197 Lee Street / Ms. Emma Wesley
Battle Hill / 38 Joe Johnson Avenue / Ms. Lillian R. Flynn
Battle Hill Sanatorium / N/A / Ms. L.O. Mays
Boys High / 63 Courtland Street / H.O. Smith / Opened Feb 1, 1872. Remained at 5 Whitehall St. until 1874. Then moved to Ivy Street; shared Girls High facilities from 1876-1892; then moved NE corner of Edgewood Ave. and Porter Alley, now Equitable Place. Finally, in 1896, the school found a permanent home at the SE corner of Courtland and Gilmer Streets.
Boys School / 217 Luckie Street / Carroll Summer
Calhoun School / 395 Piedmont Avenue / Ms. Lille Warm / Opened in 1881
Central Night Commercial High School / 128 S. Pryor Street / Ms. Carroll Summer
Commercial High / 138 S. Pryor Street (changed to 218 Pryor Street) / Mrs. Annie T. Wise
Cooper Street School
Crew Street / 97 Crew Street (in 1923); between Washington Street and Capital Avenue / Ms. Ada Parrine / Opened in Feb. 14, 1872; address listed as 119 Crew St. in 1878; 407 Crew Street in 1957. Demolished in 1957 to make way for highway system.
Davis Street / Davis street; corner of Thurmond / Ms. Sara Tuck
Decatur Street School / February 27, 1872;
East Atlanta / 23 Metropolitan Avenue / Mrs. Rusha Wesley
Edgewood / Iverson Street / Ms. Mary Lin
English Avenue / 95 English Avenue / Ms. Lulu Kingsberry
Fair Street / 362 E. Fair / Ms. M.C. Barker
Faith / 1182 E. Fair Street / Ms. Maggie Solomon
Formwalt Street / 168 Formwalt / Mrs. L.E. Sams
Forrest Avenue / Forrest Ave, corner Randolph / Mrs. Kate King
Fraser Street / Corner of Fraser and Love Street / Ms. Lulu Johnson / In 1896 a new addition was added to Fraser Street school, surpassing Walker Street as the largest school. Would later become a colored school for colored children as students expressed dismiss with being surrounded by negro housing.
Fulton County High / 142 Whitehall Street / G.C. Moore / Originally located at Whitehall & Garnett Street; moved to Whitehall in 1916, then to Washington St. in 1926. Finally moved to Jonesboro Rd in 1950.
Georgia Avenue / 42 W. Georgia Avenue / Ms. K.B. Faver
Girl’s High School / 49 Washington / Ms. Jessie Muse / Feb. 5, 1872; new building erected in 1888; then moved to Grant Park area in the 1920’s; original location in 1872 was 66 Whitehall Street.
Goldsmith, John Meador / 1312 Marietta / Ms. Lorene Graham
Grant Park / 250 S. Boulevard / Ms. Diant Davis
Greenwood Avenue / Greenwood Avenue corner of Frederica / Mrs. T.W. Albright
Harris Joel Chandler / 189 Harris Street / Mrs. E.L. Thornton
Highland / 720 E. North Avenue / Ms. G Corrigan
Hill Street / Hill St. near Milledge Ave / Ms. Jennie Bloodworth
Home Park / Home Park Avenue corner of State / Ms. Perry Henderson
Hunter’s School for Boys / 70 ½ N. Broad Street / B.T. Hunter, A.M. / Advertised in the 1896 City Directory
Inman Park School / 579 Edgewood Avenue / Ms. Dorothy Orr
Ira Street / 97 Ira Street / Ms. Laura G. Wood
Ivy Street / 195 Ivy Street / Mrs. B.H. Pew / Opened in Jan. 31,1872
Kirkwood / Kirkwood and Hardee Street / Gussie Bronner
Lakewood Heights / Sawtelle Ave. / Ms. A.B. Campbell
Lee Street / 197 Lee Street / Ms. Emma Wesley
Luckie Street / 186 Luckie Street / Mrs. M.C. Thomas / February 29, 1872
Marietta Street / 1652 Marietta Street / Ms. Annie Lewis
Means High School / Corner of Church and Forsyth street (1879) / September 15, 1878 by T.A. Means; originally located on Broad Street in 1878
Milton Ave / Milton Avenue corner of Jonanna / Ms. Helen Roddy
Moreland Ave / 128 N. Moreland Ave. / Mrs. L.P. Maddox
North Ave / 229 E. North Ave / Mc. Ella W. Smillie
Oakland City / 46 W. Avon Avenue / Ms. Fannie Spahr
Opportunity / 18 Auburn Ave / Ms. Anne Stephens
Ormewood / Bessie Avenue / Mrs. J.W. Daster
Peeples Street / 161 Peeples Street / Mrs. Ruby Jones
Pryor Street / 635 S. Pryor / Ms. Martha Haygood
Slaton, W.F. / Grant and Pavillion / Ms. Fannie Thrasher
Spring Street / Corner of Spring St and 17th / Ms. Jo Herman
State Street / 36 Wallace / Ms. M.L. Fitts
Stewart Ave / 192 Stewart Ave / Ms. Kate Osmer
Technological High / 146 E. 10TH / Mrs. W.O. Cheyney
Tenth Street / 140 E. 10th / Mrs. W.K. Newport / Founded in 1904
Walker Street / 11 Walker Street / Ms. Hattie Mangum / Opened Feb. 21, 1872, located at the intersection of Walker, Haynes and Nelson streets. New brick building constructed in 1911, old structure demolished. School housed Boy’s High and administrative offices in 1924. School closed as elementary school in 1973 operating as an alternative school until 1980. Burned to the ground in 1983.
Whitefoord Avenue / 321 S. Whitefoord Avenue / Ms. Maggie Solomon
Williams Street / 116 Williams / Ms. S.G. Long
Black Schools
Name / Location / Principal / Notes
Ashby / 228 N. Ashby / H.L. Green
Baylor / Baylor Ave. near Longsley / L.D. Shivery
Bell Street / 80 (or 30?) Bell St. / Nellie D. Lewis / Sept 1900
Carrie Steele / 301 E. Fair Street / Carrie Chatman
Crogman, W.H. / 383 Ira Street / C.B. Pittman
Dammock / 22 Donnally Avenue / E.T. Landrum
Gray Street / 28 Gray Street / Bessie E. Smith
Haynes Street / Corner of Haynes & Mangham Streets / Occupied the building known as old Friendship Baptist Church in 1873; Opened May 1873
Houston Street (Gate City School) / Houston corner of Butler / M.L. Wise / Founded 1866 Freedom Bureau established school.
Johnson, E.P. / 292 Martin Street / J.V. Drake
Mitchell Street / 249 W. Mitchell Street / E.L. Wyse
Princeton Avenue / 329 W. Princeton Avenue / Sophie M. Avery
Roach Street / Roach corner Greensferry Ave / O.A. Taylor
South Atlanta / 113 Thayer / L.J. Campbell
Storrs School for Colored Children / 110 Houston / R.O. Brown / Opened Dec. 1866; Founded by the American Missionary Association.
Summer Hill / 1872
Wesley Ave / Railroad and East / B.E. Usher
Yonge Street / 38 Yonge / Cora B. Finley

*According to the 1911 Sanborn Map, there was a black school located at 222 N. Butler street named “Gate City School.” This school was also known as Houston Street School.

From WikiPedia:

Former schools

High schools

  • Northside High School, 1950-1991
  • Boys High School, 1872-1947
  • Charles Lincoln Harper High School, 1963-1995
  • Commercial High School, 1888-1947
  • Daniel O'Keefe High School, 1947-1973
  • David T. Howard High School, 1945-1976
  • East Atlanta High School, 1959-1988
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt High School, 1947-1985
  • Fulton High School, 1915-1994
  • Girls High School, 1872-1947
  • Harper-Archer High School, 1995-2002
  • Henry McNeal Turner High School, 1951-1990[12]
  • Hoke Smith High School, 1947-1985
  • Joseph Emerson Brown High School, 1947-1992
  • Luther Judson Price High School, 1954-1987
  • North Fulton High School, 1920-1991
  • Samuel Howard Archer High School, 1950-1995
  • Southwest High School, 1950-1981
  • Sylvan Hills High School, 1949-1987
  • Tech High Charter School, 2004-2012
  • Technological "Tech" High School, 1909-1947
  • Walter F. George High School, 1959-1995
  • West Fulton High School, 1947-1992
  • William F. Dykes High School, 1959-1973
  • William A. Bass High School, 1948-1987

Middle schools

  • Austin T. Walden Middle School
  • Central Junior High School
  • Daniel O'keefe Middle School, 1973-1983
  • Henry McNeal Turner Middle School, 1989-2010
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy Middle School
  • Marshall Middle School
  • Sammye E. Coan Middle School
  • Usher Middle School
  • Walter Leonard Parks Middle School
  • West Fulton Middle School, 1992-2004

Elementary schools

  • Adair Park Elementary School
  • Anderson Park Elementary School
  • Anne E. West Elementary School
  • Arkwright Elementary School
  • Ben Hill Elementary School
  • Blair Village Elementary School
  • Blalock Elementary School
  • Burgess Elementary School
  • C.D. Hubert Elementary School, renamed Atlanta Tech High in 2004
  • Capitol View Elementary School
  • Caroline F. Harper Elementary School
  • Center Hill Elementary School
  • Chatthoochee Elementary School
  • Clark Howell Elementary School
  • Collier Heights Elementary School
  • Cook Elementary School
  • D.F. McClatchey Elementary School
  • East Lake Elementary School
  • Edmond Asa Ware Elementary School
  • Edwin P. Johnson Elementary School
  • Emma Clarissa Clement Elementary School
  • English Avenue Elementary School
  • Evan P. Howell Elementary School
  • Fountain Elementary School
  • Fowler St. Elementary School
  • Harwell Elementary School
  • Herndon Elementary School
  • Home Park Elementary School
  • I.N. Ragsdale Elementary School
  • Joel Chandler Harris Elementary School
  • John B. Gordon Elementary school
  • John Carey Elementary School
  • John F. Faith Elementary, renamed C.D. Hubert in 1963
  • John P. Whittaker Elementary School
  • Jonathan M. Goldsmith Elementary School
  • Lakewood Elementary School
  • Laura Haygood Elementary School
  • Luckie Street Elementary School
  • Margeret Mitchell Elementary School
  • Minnie S. Howell Elementary School
  • Moreland Ave. Elementary School
  • Mount Vernon Elementary School
  • North Ave. Elementary School
  • Oglethorpe Elementary School
  • Peeples Street Grammar School
  • Riverside Elementary School
  • Rockdale Elementary School
  • Slayton Elementary School
  • Spring Street Elementary School
  • Sylvan Hills Elementary School
  • Thomas Jefferson Guice Elementary School
  • Walker Street Elementary School
  • Waters Elementary School
  • White Elementary School