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Breathitt County High School
Breathitt County High School (aka Breathitt High School) is a public high school located in the city of Jackson, Kentucky nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The 2023 enrollment is 519 students. The school colors are royal blue and white. The current principal is Daphne Noble, and the current assistant principals are David Abner and Matt Minix.
With about 70 certified staff, Breathitt County High offers a wide range of courses leading to two separate diploma tracks. Students can receive a college preparation diploma or technical preparation diploma. Both meet the stringent standards set forth by the Kentucky Department of Education.
The high school was established in 1927 in Quicksand, Kentucky, just south of the county seat of Jackson. Kentucky. It came about when in the office of the superintendent of Breathitt County and the Jackson City School board of education disagreed on ways of education and how it should be run. It was during that time that the county school children went to the city school (which is an independent school) since it was the only public high school in the county. Soon, the idea of building a county high school was born.
In 1927, it was decided that the high school would be located in the growing logging town of Quicksand, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Jackson. The county would use the Quicksand Common Grade School building that was donated to the county school system, in 1917, by E. O. Robinson, and F. W. Mowbray, the heads of the Mowbray and Robinson Company, a major logging company and the major employer for the boomtown. It would be known as Breathitt County High School, but many locals sometimes called it Quicksand High School (due to its location, since not many high schools then were known by the county name) or Breathitt High School (due to many reasons, but mainly because many high schools in the area back then only had three initials and not many schools existed as a unified county school with "county" in the name). It was used so often and was so common that when the second building was constructed, they carved over top of the entrance "Breathitt High School" instead of "Breathitt County High School". This is why the name "Breathitt High School" is still used by many locals today.
The campus was located on a hill overlooking the town of Quicksand. It was set up much like a college campus, with a boys' and girls' dormitory. These were needed due to inefficient roads, lack of many motor vehicles, and the long travel it would take to go back and forth every day; most students walked to school. Most kids stayed for weekdays and went home on weekends. There were five buildings on campus:
The first year of its existence, with 24 students and two faculty members, was headed by L. K. Rice as principal. Within its first year, it housed a boys' and girls' basketball team that competed in the KHSAA. There were two graduates for its first commencement: Roy Bach and Wayne Davis.
Enrollment and faculty continued to grow through the end of the decade and up into the 1930s, despite the effects of the Great Depression. They gained many more extracurricular activities and classes over the years like music, boys' and girls' glee club, and FFA.
By the mid-1930s, the board of education knew the buildings were becoming inefficient to contain the rapid growth of the student body and faculty. In 1936, an 8-acre (32,000 m2) property was bought on Court Street and next to the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson. Building began immediately and the school was completed to be opened in September 1938. It was a two-story red brick building that had about 40 classrooms and a separate gymnasium with an auditorium that housed around 200 people. There was a huge field behind the school for sporting activities of recreation. The building was dedicated in January 1938 by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt during her visit to the county. All this was due to the efforts from current Superintendent Marie Roberts-Turner and her fighting for better education to the children of Breathitt County. There were 46 graduates from the graduating class of the new high school (Class of 1939).
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Breathitt County High School
Breathitt County High School (aka Breathitt High School) is a public high school located in the city of Jackson, Kentucky nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The 2023 enrollment is 519 students. The school colors are royal blue and white. The current principal is Daphne Noble, and the current assistant principals are David Abner and Matt Minix.
With about 70 certified staff, Breathitt County High offers a wide range of courses leading to two separate diploma tracks. Students can receive a college preparation diploma or technical preparation diploma. Both meet the stringent standards set forth by the Kentucky Department of Education.
The high school was established in 1927 in Quicksand, Kentucky, just south of the county seat of Jackson. Kentucky. It came about when in the office of the superintendent of Breathitt County and the Jackson City School board of education disagreed on ways of education and how it should be run. It was during that time that the county school children went to the city school (which is an independent school) since it was the only public high school in the county. Soon, the idea of building a county high school was born.
In 1927, it was decided that the high school would be located in the growing logging town of Quicksand, 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast of Jackson. The county would use the Quicksand Common Grade School building that was donated to the county school system, in 1917, by E. O. Robinson, and F. W. Mowbray, the heads of the Mowbray and Robinson Company, a major logging company and the major employer for the boomtown. It would be known as Breathitt County High School, but many locals sometimes called it Quicksand High School (due to its location, since not many high schools then were known by the county name) or Breathitt High School (due to many reasons, but mainly because many high schools in the area back then only had three initials and not many schools existed as a unified county school with "county" in the name). It was used so often and was so common that when the second building was constructed, they carved over top of the entrance "Breathitt High School" instead of "Breathitt County High School". This is why the name "Breathitt High School" is still used by many locals today.
The campus was located on a hill overlooking the town of Quicksand. It was set up much like a college campus, with a boys' and girls' dormitory. These were needed due to inefficient roads, lack of many motor vehicles, and the long travel it would take to go back and forth every day; most students walked to school. Most kids stayed for weekdays and went home on weekends. There were five buildings on campus:
The first year of its existence, with 24 students and two faculty members, was headed by L. K. Rice as principal. Within its first year, it housed a boys' and girls' basketball team that competed in the KHSAA. There were two graduates for its first commencement: Roy Bach and Wayne Davis.
Enrollment and faculty continued to grow through the end of the decade and up into the 1930s, despite the effects of the Great Depression. They gained many more extracurricular activities and classes over the years like music, boys' and girls' glee club, and FFA.
By the mid-1930s, the board of education knew the buildings were becoming inefficient to contain the rapid growth of the student body and faculty. In 1936, an 8-acre (32,000 m2) property was bought on Court Street and next to the North Fork of the Kentucky River in Jackson. Building began immediately and the school was completed to be opened in September 1938. It was a two-story red brick building that had about 40 classrooms and a separate gymnasium with an auditorium that housed around 200 people. There was a huge field behind the school for sporting activities of recreation. The building was dedicated in January 1938 by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt during her visit to the county. All this was due to the efforts from current Superintendent Marie Roberts-Turner and her fighting for better education to the children of Breathitt County. There were 46 graduates from the graduating class of the new high school (Class of 1939).