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Armstrong High School (Virginia)

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In 2004, Armstrong High School merged with the nearby John F. Kennedy High School, continuing to use the Armstrong name, colors and mascot, except that it was now much newer and revamped with its air conditioned Kennedy building.
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At the current location, Armstrong High School is one of only two of Richmond's public schools which are physically located slightly outside the corporate limits of the
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The location of Armstrong High school has changed three times since 1909. Once in 1923, then in 1951, and then again in 2004. It is now in its fourth location.
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Circa 2015, of the entire student body, the number with plans to attend a four-year college or university was fewer than thirty.
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facilities in proximity to one another; one, Fairfield Court, is on the other side of the street from the high school.
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and had six security guards. April Hawkins, the principal, stated her belief that the school should have more guards.
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and moved buildings. The city of Richmond took over the school in 1876. Around the 1880s the school was renamed the
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In 1909, the school was established at Leigh Streets at first and named in honor of Union General
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and opened in October 1867. It initially drew funding from a variety of sources, including the
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and was eventually incorporated into the Richmond school system in 1876. The school's
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Circa 2015 there were 974 students and approximately 97% were African American.
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Higher Education for African Americans before the Civil Rights Era, 1900-1964
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and in 1909 it adopted its current name of Armstrong High School.
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The school's public address announcer and former faculty member,
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which was cut off from the rest of the county when the
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were built in the 1960s on land in a small portion of
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Armstrong High School (Richmond, Virginia)

Richmond
Virginia
Coordinates
37°33′08″N 77°24′11″W / 37.55222°N 77.40306°W / 37.55222; -77.40306
Public
high school
Richmond Public Schools
9
12
English
Urban
Virginia High School League
Capital District
https://ahs.rvaschools.net
Richmond Public Schools
high school
Richmond
Virginia
United States
Freedmen's Bureau
namesake
Samuel Chapman Armstrong
U.S. Colored Troops
American Civil War
Hampton Institute
historically black college
Hampton, Virginia
Booker T. Washington

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