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in the performing arts with the goal of attracting white students to the school. The elementary and middle schools moved to other locations by 1993. A renovation budgeted at $ 58 million broke ground in 2011, changing the route of Orange Avenue so that it no longer divided the campus, and providing
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Booker High School is named after a teacher and educational leader in
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