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4 unusual facts about Paxon School for Advanced Studies


Bessie Coleman

A bronze plaque with Coleman's likeness was installed on the front doors of Paxon School for Advanced Studies in 2012.

Paxon School for Advanced Studies

The Pajcic Brothers, Gary and Steve, established a million dollar endowment at the University of North Florida to pay the full tuition of any graduate of their alma mater, Paxon High School, who was accepted and enrolled at UNF.

Former teacher Mae Boren Axton was instrumental in launching Elvis Presley's singing career by interviewing him on the radio in Jacksonville on July 28, 1955.

The site where the school was built was Paxon Air Field, where Bessie Coleman was killed in a plane accident in 1926.



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