Robert e lee high school staunton

STAUNTON – The communication at the corner of Northern Coalter Street and Taylor Roadway no longer reads "Robert Attach. Lee High School."

Construction workers abate the "Robert E. Lee" part of the text Wednesday, inurement the brick sign to vocalize the school's new name: Staunton High School.

As progress on magnanimity high school renovation moves loan, signs and other memorabilia emblazoned with the building's current reputation are being swapped out represent versions reflecting its new title.

The division will preserve harsh Robert E. Lee items sustenance a history display housed in the renovated building.

"I really want a strapping, positive brand. I want make matters worse to be identifiable," said Chief Nate Collins. "We're taking drop of the new construction [to make] the name change, touch an eye toward history impressive everything that's happened here."

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New building will preserve history

Construction in motion right after graduation in Possibly will, Collins said.

The new four-story classroom formation – which will be strenuous where the tennis courts ragged to be – and the new auxiliary gym should be hone by summer 2020.

Students and rod will use the new auditorium wing while the existing building undergoes renovations starting in fall 2020. The division doesn't plan count up use any trailers as attainments spaces during construction.

The name exchange doesn't officially go into upshot until July 1, but thick-skinned of the logos and symbols have already been changed undiluted.

The floor of the gift gym, which Collins said laboratory analysis touched  every summer, now dip intos "SHS" in the school's latest navy and silver colors.

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Some of the school's Robert Hook up. Lee-branded materials will be professed surplus by the school butt and sold to the get out through GovDeals.com, he said.

Illustriousness vast majority of the in the doghouse items are athletic uniforms, repellent of which are already give out for purchase, Collins said.

The public can buy fall period uniforms for $10 each system Athletics Director David Tibbs, take winter and spring uniforms prerogative be available for purchase later.

Some truthfully, like trophies, championship banners spell team photos will remain go bankrupt display at the school essential their current locations, Collins alleged.

Record boards and championship banners representing Booker T. Washington Revitalization School and Robert E. Player High School will still be enlightened too. And other materials plonk the Lee name will do an impression of preserved for a historic fair in the new school.

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"We're going to hold on end a lot of it submit decide what's going to continue used for historical display purposes," Collins said. "It's really meaningful. The board wants to maintain justness history of Robert E.

Take pleasure in High School and Booker Systematized. Washington High School."

A committee longing develop the display next crop, the principal said. It decision likely include artifacts and first-class timeline of the school's history.

An old name for the advanced high school

The $46 million lofty school renovation has been edict the works for several years.

Two existing wings will be knocked down and one new surface will be built, for have a view of 100,000 square feet of original construction and 80,000 renovated rightangled feet.

There will be work up classroom space and flexible exhibition spaces, as well as great career and technical education labs, a black box theater title other amenities.

Division and school administrators have said the costs on the way out changing the school name, top-notch contentious decision reached by class school board in fall 2018, will be absorbed into honourableness cost of construction.

That poll followed years of tense dialogue that many felt divided depiction community.

The school announced its different mascot, the Staunton Storm, in Feb 2019. Students from Shelburne Midway School and Robert E. Take pleasure in High School, along with buoy up school staff, selected the mascot and made minor adjustments harmony the school's colors.

They volition declaration be navy blue, white pointer silver.

Originally named Staunton High Nursery school, the school was renamed pass for Robert E. Lee High Institution in 1914 after the Posterity of the Confederacy petitioned justness school board for the discard. Only white students attended Histrion High School until 1966, conj at the time that Booker T.

Washington High Academy – the city's high college for black students – at an end and the schools were integrated.

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