Windsor Forest High School
Encyclopedia
Windsor Forest High School is a public high school in the Windsor Forest section of Savannah, Georgia
. Managed by the Savannah-Chatham County School Board of Education, its attendance area includes the southside Savannah neighborhoods of Windsor Forest, White Bluff
, Wilshire, and Georgetown
.
In 1997, the NBC-TV newsmagazine Dateline featured a segment on Sherry Hearn, a former Teacher of the Year at Windsor. Hearn, dismissed from the faculty the previous year, had refused a drug test after police officers found marijuana in her unlocked car in a campus parking lot.
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important...
. Managed by the Savannah-Chatham County School Board of Education, its attendance area includes the southside Savannah neighborhoods of Windsor Forest, White Bluff
White Bluff, Georgia
White Bluff was a collection of communities—Nicholsonboro, Rose Dhu, Twin Hill, and Cedar Grove—located in Chatham County, Georgia, United States and now part of Savannah. In 1940, as part of research published in Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes,...
, Wilshire, and Georgetown
Georgetown, Chatham County, Georgia
Georgetown is a census-designated place in Chatham County, Georgia, United States. The population was 11,823 at the 2010 census. Georgetown lies across the Forest River from Savannah, Georgia, and is a suburban "bedroom community" of Savannah, where most of its adult residents work...
.
History
Windsor Forest High School opened in the autumn of 1967. It was the city's first air-conditioned high school and included grades 7 through 12. For several years, Windsor's middle school students were fully drawn from the area south and west of Holland Drive, while its high school students came from a larger attendance zone that stretched north and east to the middle of Montgomery Crossroad. Two court-mandated busing plans in 1970 and 1971 markedly changed this attendance area, bringing in minority students from the subdivisions of Cloverdale and Liberty City in Savannah and reassigning some of Windsor's white students to Jenkins High School (1970-71 school year) and then to formerly all-black Beach High (from fall 1971). With the large-scale integration of the southside in the 1990s, however, Windsor Forest High became the neighborhood school it was before busing. In 1975, middle school grades 7 and 8 were dropped and their students were transferred to new middle schools elsewhere in Chatham County.In 1997, the NBC-TV newsmagazine Dateline featured a segment on Sherry Hearn, a former Teacher of the Year at Windsor. Hearn, dismissed from the faculty the previous year, had refused a drug test after police officers found marijuana in her unlocked car in a campus parking lot.
Clubs and organizations
- Annual Staff
- Band
- Chatelaines
- Flagteam
- Stepteam
- Mock Trial
- JROTC
- FFA
- FBLA
- S.A.D.D (Students Against Destructive Decisions)
- National Honor Society
- National Spanish Honor Society
- National Art Honor Society
- Odyssey of The Minds
- Knights For Christ
Athletics
- Football
- Boys and Girls Soccer
- Softball
- Baseball
- Volleyball
- Cheerleading
- Tennis
- Golf
- Boys & Girls Basketball
- Wrestling