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unusual facts about Central High School


Keller, Texas

Central High School, Fort Worth,TX (south of Rapp Road and west of Rufe Snow Drive)


Herb Rule

Attending Little Rock schools he graduated from Central High School in 1955, receiving an NROTC scholarship to attend Yale University where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1959.

Lou Bruce

The son of a Mohawk chief from the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation in upstate New York, he attended Central High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he excelled as a student while playing baseball.

Morris Arkin

Mr. Arkin graduated from Central High School and attended what is now George Washington University.

Olney Transportation Center

It is located on Broad Street in the Olney neighborhood of Northern Philadelphia near Einstein Medical Center, La Salle University, Central High School, and the Philadelphia High School for Girls.

Robert Cornelius

He became so well renowned for his work, that shortly after, Cornelius was approached by Joseph Saxton to create a silver plate for his daguerreotype of Central High School in Philadelphia.

Steelton-Highspire School District

City College (despite its antique name) was the third oldest public high school in America, next to Philadelphia's Central High School, the second oldest - established 1838, and Boston's oldest - English High School, founded 1821.


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Allen Central High School

Allen Central High School (ACHS) is a secondary school located in Eastern, Floyd County, Kentucky, U.S.A., and is one of four public high schools in the Floyd County School system.

Andy Van Slyke

Van Slyke earned All-American honors in baseball as a senior at New Hartford Central High school located in New Hartford, New York.

Ashe County High School

Previously, high school students in Ashe County attended either Ashe Central High School in Jefferson, Beaver Creek High School in West Jefferson, or Northwest Ashe High School in Warrensville.

B.J. Snow

B.J. Snow is married to former United States women's national soccer team player and two-time Olympic gold medalist Lindsay Tarpley, an alumnus of Portage Central High School.

Brian Rimpf

He is taught principles of business and business law at Harnett Central High School in Angier, North Carolina.

Charles E. Chamberlain

Chamberlain was born in Locke Township, Michigan and after graduating from Lansing Central High School in Lansing, went on to earn a B.S. degree in 1941 from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Chatham Central High School

Chatham Central High School is a public high school located in Bear Creek, North Carolina with a student population of around 450 students.

Connie Dierking

Connie Dierking was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up on Long Island, where he starred in basketball for Central High School in Valley Stream, New York.

Craig Cirbus

After graduating, he became an assistant coach at Cheektowaga Central High School before serving as an assistant coach under Joe Paterno at Penn State.

Dan Kreider

Kreider earned state Section II Best Player honors as a senior at Manheim, Pennsylvania's Manheim Central High School.

Elihu Thomson

With Edwin J. Houston, a former teacher and later colleague of Thomson's at Central High School, Thomson founded the Thomson-Houston Electric Company.

Fats Heard

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from the old Central High School and studied the piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music before taking up the drums as his primary instrument.

Forrest Twogood

Born in Kingsley, Iowa, Twogood was three-sport athlete at Central High School in Sioux City, then played basketball and baseball at the University of Iowa, before being signed by Branch Rickey's St. Louis Cardinals.

Fred Childress

While born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Childress grew up in Helena, Arkansas, playing football in high school for the Central High School Cougars.

Gregory Jarvis

Jarvis graduated from Mohawk Central High School, in Mohawk, New York, in 1962.

Hans Schlegel

Schlegel, born and raised in Germany, graduated as an international exchange student from Lewis Central High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa before studying physics at RWTH Aachen University in his home country.

Harry Castlemon

He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York.

Hurley, Mississippi

Lead singer of the rock band 3 Doors Down, Brad Arnold, graduated from East Central High School in 1996.

James Joy Miller

In addition to playing for Detroit Central High School, Miller also played football and basketball for the Detroit Athletic Club teams.

Judee K. Burgoon

She also attended Central High School where she was active in many extracurricular activities such as debate team, golf team, drama club, and organizing both the Young Republicans and Young Democrats.

May Pen

While May Pen has no universities, it does have several public and private schools, including Central High School, Denbigh High School, Glenmuir High School (Anglican), Glenmuir Preparatory School (Anglican primary), May Pen High School (private), May Pen Primary School, and St. Thomas Moore Preparatory School (Catholic primary).

New Berlin Historic District

Among the notable buildings are the Central Hotel (ca. 1855), National Bank and Trust Building (ca. 1900), First Baptist Church (1840), St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (1848, designed by Richard Upjohn), Municipal Building, and New Berlin Central High School.

Peg Meyer's Melody Kings

As is expected with new band, the Agony Four would practice any place that would allow them and had an in tune piano, most frequently practicing at Cape Central High School, the Bluebird Confectionary on Broadway and Fountain, and the Sweet Shop on Main Street.

Pointe Coupee Parish School Board

Upper Pointe Coupee High School (at a previous point Batchelor High School) - Merged into Pointe Coupee Central High School in 1991

Political positions of John Edwards

Edwards has advocated his College for Everyone program based on proposal made in his 2004 campaign and the successful College for Everyone pilot program that Edwards and the Carolina non-profit organization Promise and Opportunity Foundation began at Greene Central High School in Snow Hill, North Carolina, a high school in rural eastern North Carolina with a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students.

Roderick Riley

He was born on March 11, 1981 and he attended Beaumont Central High School in Beaumont, Texas.

Tony Shipley

Born in Blountville, Tennessee, Shipley is a graduate of Sullivan Central High School and also a 1976 graduate of the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

War Memorial Plaza

By the early 1840s, with the addition of a third floor and a flat pediment, the Rooms were occupied by the young men of the Central High School, later renamed the Baltimore City College, founded in 1839 a few blocks away on Courtland Street (now St. Paul Street/Place/Preston Gardens, considered to be the third oldest public high school in America.

Warren Avis

Born in Michigan, Avis graduated from Bay City Central High School in 1933, and served in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War.

White County Central High School

The White County Central High School mascot is the Bear with maroon and white serving as the school colors.