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Hephzibah High School
Hephzibah High School is a high school located in south Richmond County in the town of Hephzibah, Georgia, United States. It is the largest high school, by attendance, in the Richmond County School System. It is located in a rural area and its students generally live in a rural or suburban setting.
The school was established October 1860 by the Hephzibah Baptist Association and held its first session in temporary buildings until the first permanent building was completed in 1862. Hephzibah High is the second oldest high school in Richmond County. The Baptist Association, took their name, Hephzibah from Isaiah 62:4. They voted to put a school in the village called Brothersville. The association tried to rent the old Brothersville Academy that was started on James Anderson land in early 1840s. It's a common misconception that some think the two schools were the same. They were not. The Brothersville Academy was started by a Methodist,James Anderson, and closed a few short years after the death of the Anderson brothers. The Baptist Association tried to rent the old Brothersville Academy and a boarding house, but their efforts were futile. So, Baptist men, A. W. Rhodes donated 16 acres of land and Rev. J.H.T.Kilpatrick donated 50 acres of land. The association purchased 16 acres more and quickly began work on temporary building for the new school called The Hephzibah High School. The History of both Brothersville Academy and The Hephzibah High are told by Hephzibah's published historians, Rev. W. L. Kilpatrick in his work, The Hephzibah Baptist Centennial (1794–1894)and in A Lost Arcadia, by Walter A. Clark, published in 1909. These men were graduates of the old Brothersville Academy and saw it close and the new school built.
Completed 1862 and served last class of 1924. It was torn down.
An explosion occurred in the school's gymnasium on November 19, 1953. It was caused by two boys smoking near a gas leak, and it resulted in five injuries and the death of six-year-old Gilda Joyce Martin.
In the 1998–1999 school year, Hephzibah's freshman class was housed at the Freshman Academy, in the old building for Floyd Graham Elementary School. This was done partially to ease overcrowding at the school and partially as a pilot project for the Richmond County Board of Education. Freshman Academy was shuttered after the construction of Cross Creek High School was completed in 1999 and made operating a second location for Hephzibah unnecessary. A new wing was added to the main facility that same year to finish the push to ease overcrowding at the school.
In 2008, Hephzibah unveiled its new football stadium whose construction caused a major redesign of its athletic facilities. A land swap occurred between the Richmond County School System and the Richmond County Recreational Department in order to provide enough land adjacent to Hephzibah to complete the design. The new stadium has double the capacity of its predecessor.
Hephzibah offers two main tracks to graduation: vocational and college preparatory. The school offers Advanced Placement courses and honors-level courses within its college preparatory curriculum. The vocational track allows for a concentration in a particular vocation and offers programs in JROTC, agriculture, cosmetology, welding, and engine repair. The school also offers classes on the Christian Bible.
The high school meets many of the traditional markers of both failure and success in academics. On one hand, for the class of 2007, Hephzibah was cited as having a graduation rate of 39.7%. This statistic was found by the Augusta Chronicle by comparing the number of freshmen when the class entered high school to the number at graduation. Using the No Child Left Behind standard, which does not count students who have left school rolls without notice as dropouts, the school's graduation rate was 65.2% for the same year. Neither system has been verified with a student-by-student study of a given class. Many believe that the Augusta Chronicle's formula disadvantages schools like Hephzibah, given the large number of military children enrolled in classes. The school's proximity to Fort Gordon ensures that a number of students enroll and leave the school each year due to their parents' transience.
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Hephzibah High School
Hephzibah High School is a high school located in south Richmond County in the town of Hephzibah, Georgia, United States. It is the largest high school, by attendance, in the Richmond County School System. It is located in a rural area and its students generally live in a rural or suburban setting.
The school was established October 1860 by the Hephzibah Baptist Association and held its first session in temporary buildings until the first permanent building was completed in 1862. Hephzibah High is the second oldest high school in Richmond County. The Baptist Association, took their name, Hephzibah from Isaiah 62:4. They voted to put a school in the village called Brothersville. The association tried to rent the old Brothersville Academy that was started on James Anderson land in early 1840s. It's a common misconception that some think the two schools were the same. They were not. The Brothersville Academy was started by a Methodist,James Anderson, and closed a few short years after the death of the Anderson brothers. The Baptist Association tried to rent the old Brothersville Academy and a boarding house, but their efforts were futile. So, Baptist men, A. W. Rhodes donated 16 acres of land and Rev. J.H.T.Kilpatrick donated 50 acres of land. The association purchased 16 acres more and quickly began work on temporary building for the new school called The Hephzibah High School. The History of both Brothersville Academy and The Hephzibah High are told by Hephzibah's published historians, Rev. W. L. Kilpatrick in his work, The Hephzibah Baptist Centennial (1794–1894)and in A Lost Arcadia, by Walter A. Clark, published in 1909. These men were graduates of the old Brothersville Academy and saw it close and the new school built.
Completed 1862 and served last class of 1924. It was torn down.
An explosion occurred in the school's gymnasium on November 19, 1953. It was caused by two boys smoking near a gas leak, and it resulted in five injuries and the death of six-year-old Gilda Joyce Martin.
In the 1998–1999 school year, Hephzibah's freshman class was housed at the Freshman Academy, in the old building for Floyd Graham Elementary School. This was done partially to ease overcrowding at the school and partially as a pilot project for the Richmond County Board of Education. Freshman Academy was shuttered after the construction of Cross Creek High School was completed in 1999 and made operating a second location for Hephzibah unnecessary. A new wing was added to the main facility that same year to finish the push to ease overcrowding at the school.
In 2008, Hephzibah unveiled its new football stadium whose construction caused a major redesign of its athletic facilities. A land swap occurred between the Richmond County School System and the Richmond County Recreational Department in order to provide enough land adjacent to Hephzibah to complete the design. The new stadium has double the capacity of its predecessor.
Hephzibah offers two main tracks to graduation: vocational and college preparatory. The school offers Advanced Placement courses and honors-level courses within its college preparatory curriculum. The vocational track allows for a concentration in a particular vocation and offers programs in JROTC, agriculture, cosmetology, welding, and engine repair. The school also offers classes on the Christian Bible.
The high school meets many of the traditional markers of both failure and success in academics. On one hand, for the class of 2007, Hephzibah was cited as having a graduation rate of 39.7%. This statistic was found by the Augusta Chronicle by comparing the number of freshmen when the class entered high school to the number at graduation. Using the No Child Left Behind standard, which does not count students who have left school rolls without notice as dropouts, the school's graduation rate was 65.2% for the same year. Neither system has been verified with a student-by-student study of a given class. Many believe that the Augusta Chronicle's formula disadvantages schools like Hephzibah, given the large number of military children enrolled in classes. The school's proximity to Fort Gordon ensures that a number of students enroll and leave the school each year due to their parents' transience.