Chattanooga Minor and Negro League Baseball Teams

Satchel Paige, with K. C. Monarchs

Chattanooga has had professional baseball clubs since the 1880s, including both minor league teams and Negro league and barnstorming teams “when the game was black and white” (the name of an early book on segregated baseball teams).

Baseball first came to Chattanooga, however, with Union troops during the Federal Military Occupation in the War of the Rebellion.  After the war, two teams composed of former Union soldiers who demobilized here played in the summers of the postbellum period named after their pitchers, Siegfried’s and Ramage’s.

Minor League teams

The earliest city baseball club in Chattanooga were the Mountain Citys, often called the Mountain City Club.  They were amateurs, but played all over the South, from 1875 to 1878.

The next major baseball team in the city were the Roane Iron Company-sponsored Chattanooga Roanes, a nonprofessional employees’ team whose home field was at Douglas and Vine Streets played in 1878 and 1880-1885.

The Chattanooga Browns played in the summers of 1881 and 1884-1885.

John Stanton, whose luxurious Stanton House once stood at the site of the later Terminal Station, took over the Chattanooga Roanes as a semi-pro team in the 1885-1886 seasons.  The team played at Stanton Field behind his hotel as members of the Southern Association.

Meanwhile, Chattanooga Base Ball Club played in the Southern League in 1885 and 1886.

A team called the Mountain Citys played again from 1886 to 1887.

Ted Sullivan managed a team playing in the Southern League at Stanton Field in the 1888 season.  The Chattanooga Sullivans won the pennant for the first half-season.  Sullivan was then recruited to manage the Washington Nationals for the second half-season.

The Chattanooga Chatts were an initially independent team that played at Stanton Field in seasons 1889-1892.  When the Southern Association started back up in 1892, the team joined.  The Chattanooga Chatts were Southern Association champs for the 1892 season.

The Chattanooga Warriors played at Stanton Field in the Southern Association in the 1893 season.  After the season was over, the owner shipped the team to Mobile, Alabama.

As the Mobile Bluebirds, the team played during the 1894-1895 seasons at Frascati Park in the Southern Association.

The first Chattanooga Lookouts played at Stanton Field in the Southern Association during the 1901-1902 seasons.

The second Chattanooga Lookouts played at University of Chattanooga’s Chamberlain Field in the Southern Atlantic (Sally) League during the 1909 season and were that year’s Dixie Series champs.  These Lookouts were a Sally League franchise purchased by O.B. Andrews, who relocated it to Chattanooga and renamed the team. 

The team switched to the Southern Association in the 1910 season, still at Chamberlain Field, but the next year got their own home, Andrews Field.  The Lookouts remained in the Southern Association until it folded in 1961, and at Andrews Field until Engel Stadium, built on top of it, replaced it in the 1930 season.  They played at Engel Stadium through 1942 when the team was moved to Montgomery, Alabama.

The Montgomery Rebels played at the Cramton Bowl in the Southern Association during the 1943 season.

1952 Chattanooga Lookouts

The team returned as the Chattanooga Lookouts for the 1944-1961 seasons of the Southern Association.  After the Association folded in 1961, the team was on hiatus in 1962, played in the Southern Atlantic League in 1963, then in the Southern League (the Sally League renamed) 1964-1965.  At the end of the 1965 season, the team dissolved.

The second Chattanooga Lookouts were Southern Association champions in the 1932 season and went on to win the Dixie Series that year.  They were also association champs in 1939, 1952, and 1961.

They played their longest game 3 June 1919 against the Atlanta Crackers at Andrews Field.  The game ended in a 2-2 tie that evening after an incredible 23 innings due to darkness.

In March 1931, Joe Engel signed 17-year old Jackie Mitchell to the Lookouts, the second woman ever to play pro baseball (first was in 1898). Mitchell, whose given names were Virne Beatrice, was a southpaw who learned to pitch from Dazzy Vance, her nextdoor neighbor.  His lessons included the sinker, then called a drop ball, which became her specialty.

As a relief pitcher in the first inning of an exhibition game against the New York Yankees at Engel Stadium on 2 April, she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back-to-back.  A few days later, Baseball Commissioner Landis voided her contract, but she went on to barnstorm with the House of David until retiring from the game in 1937.

The third Chattanooga Lookouts opened the 1976 season at Engel Stadium, bringing professional baseball back to Chattanooga after its longest hiatus since pro baseball began in the city.  The team played at historic Engel Stadium through the 1999 season.  For the 2000 season, the team opened at its news Bell South Park atop Kirkman (or Reservoir) Hill, which became AT&T Field in 2007.

The third Chattanooga Lookouts have been Southern League champions in the 1988, 2015, and 2017 seasons.  They played their longest game to date on 29 July 2017 against the Birmingham Barons, winning 2-1 after twenty-one innings at AT&T Field.

The Chattanooga Lookouts have been a farm team for MLB’s Washington Senators 1932-1959; Philadelphia Phillies 1960-1961 and 1963-1965; Oakland Athletics 1976-1977; Cleveland Indians 1978-1982; Seattle Mariners 1983-1987; Cincinnati Reds 1988-2008; Los Angeles Dodgers 2009-2014; Minnesota Twins (formerly the Washington Senators) 2015-2018; and Cincinnati Reds again 2019 to present.

Negro League and barnstorming teams

For over fifty years, Chattanooga hosted baseball teams that played in the Negro Southern League, that went barnstorming, or did both in different seasons.  Regarding what barnstorming was, think The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976).

The Chattanooga Colored Base Ball Club played in the summer of 1885.

The city’s Afro-American community fielded a team known simply as Chattanooga in the earliest of Negro League in the country, the Southern League of Colored Base Ballists, which lasted one season, 1886.

Another team called Chattanooga Colored Base Ball Club played again in the summer of 1893.

The Chattanooga Unions barnstormed during the 1901 season.

Another team simply known as Chattanooga barnstormed during the 1909 and 1910 seasons, home-based at Luna Park in South Chattanooga on the West Side.

The first Chattanooga Black Lookouts played in the Negro Southern League in the 1920 season, based at Andrews Field.

The Chattanooga Tigers barnstormed during seasons 1921-1923, home-based at Andrews Field.

The Chattanooga White Sox played in the Negro Southern League in the first half of the 1926 season, home-based at Andrews Field.

The second Chattanooga Black Lookouts (White Sox renamed) played the second half of the 1926 season and all of the 1927 season in the Negro Southern League, home-based at Andrews Field.  In the 1927 season, they were league champions.  This incarnation of Chattanooga Black Lookouts was a farm team for the Homestead Grays of the Negro National League.

The Chattanooga Black Cats played in the Negro Southern League in the 1929 season, home-based at Lincoln Park Field.

The third Chattanooga Black Lookouts played in the Negro Southern League during the 1931 season, home-based at Engel Stadium, and barnstormed for seasons 1933-1936.

1946 Chattanooga Choo Choos, Willie Mays 4th from left in front

The Chattanooga Choo Choos barnstormed during seasons 1940-1944 and played in the Negro Southern League during seasons 1945-1948, home-based at Engel Stadium.

The Chattanooga All-Stars barnstormed during the 1949 season.

The Chattanooga Black Choo Choos played in the Negro Southern League during the 1950 season, home-based at Engel Stadium.

The Chattanooga Stars played in the Negro Southern League during the 1951 season, home-based at Engel Stadium.

Famous players who started in Chattanooga

Two of the greatest baseball players in the history of the Negro Leagues who later played Major League Baseball got their start in pro ball in Chattanooga:

Satchel Paige (the greatest pitcher of all time, black or white) got his start with the Chattanooga White Sox.

Willie Mays (the greatest all-around offensive player of all time in MLB) got his start with the Chattanooga Choo Choos.

Engel Stadium, from outfield and from stands

Hamilton Co. and Chattanooga City Schools, 1900-present

New Walnut Grove (later East Brainerd) School, 1926

(Major revisions 6 July 2025)

Hamilton County Schools

The Hamilton County Schools system was established in 1867.  Its first superintendent was Ewing O. Tade, head of the local Freedmen’s Bureau, first principal of Howard Free School (beginning in 1866), and pastor of the integrated First Congregationalist Church.  In July 1868, Tade reported to the county that 82 schools had been established in the county, 28 of those for black children.

At the end of the first school year in 1869, Superintendent Tade reported sixty-five schools in the county, forty-one for white children and twenty-four for black children, with twelve more white schools and four more black schools expected by the beginning of the next school year.

In 1881, there were fifty-five public schools in the county system (the reduced number due to consolidation); by fall 1893, there number had increased to seventy-two.

Younger students were divided into primary schools, children 5-9 years old, and grammar schools, 10-14 years old, usually in the same building.  By the turn of the century, primary and grammar schools were combined into elementary schools, though in some cases the old nomenclature remained (for instance, Highland Park Grammar School). 

Between 1883 (when the State of Tennessee first authorized them) and 1902, the county added high school grades (as opposed to physically separate high school buildings) to existing schools, but no separate high school buildings or separate administrations for high school grades in the schools which had them.

In the 19th century, high schools were three-year institutions, with students progressing through Junior, Middle, and Senior levels.  In the early decades, high schools were classed by how many levels they contained.  Those with three years (grades 10-12) were called first-class high schools; those with four years (grades 9-12) were called second-class high schools; those with six years (grades 7-12) were called third-class high schools.

Schools in Hamilton County were at first organized by civil district, but this diverged in the 1890s with the exponential growth of the system.  The two systems of districts were synched in 1903, reducing the number of school districts to twenty, but this diverged with the reduction of civil districts in the county from twenty to six in 1906.  This remained the case until the two were resynched in 1911.

School directors over all the schools in each civil district were elected yearly, as were originally teachers and principals (in schools with more than one teacher).  Failing reelection would result in dismissal or relocation.

The Welsh School

In the 1880s and possibly into the 1890s, there was a Welsh School in the north of the county, School No. 3 of District 12, so-called because the majority of its pupils were Welsh or of Welsh descent and classes were in Welsh.  Not only was it the largest of the three public schools in that district, but with 145 pupils in 1881, the largest in the county, the next in size then being Wauhatchie School, School No. 1 in Civil District 3, at 130 pupils.

This school served the children of the huge population of Welsh immigrants attracted to the region of northern Hamilton County because of the large number of coal mines there.  In addition to the school, well into the 1930s, there were a Welsh Presbyterian Church and a Welsh Union Church in Sale Creek and a Welsh Congregational Church in Soddy which later renamed itself Congregational Church of Soddy.

Chattanooga City Schools

In 1869, the then Repubican-dominated government of the City of Chattanooga adopted Howard School as its own.  The Chattanooga City Schools system was established in 1873, along with three schools for white children.  Its first superintendent was Professor Henry D. Wyatt, for whom the central building of what is now Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences is named.  The Howard School, in the former Bragg Hospital at the corner of Sixth Street and Pine, was transferred to its jurisdiction.

Howard School is the oldest continuing public school in the city, as well as the county, founded 1866 as Howard Free School and meeting initially in the former Bragg Hospital at Sixth and Pine Streets.  In 1871, it moved into its own new building near the intersection Branham (East 9th) Street and A (Lindsay) Street, on the outskirts of the Irish Hill community, next to First Congregationalist on the corner.  When it later grew a high school, that became Howard School, and the elementary grades became known as Ninth Street School, both continuing to meet in the same building.

Howard School later moved, and Ninth Street School closed at the end of the 1887-1888 school year.  Its former building was remodeled to become the city’s Manual Training School (for white children), but that only lasted two years.  After the Steele Home for Colored Orphans burned, it used the vacant Ninth Street School for a little while.  Next, the building was used as an overflow facility for white schools, then reopened as a school for black children at the turn of the century, or at least by 1902 and thru 1907.

In 1873, First Ward (soon renamed First District) School began in a small schoolhouse on Georgia Avenue; Third Ward (later Second District) School opened in a rented space on Sixth Street just west of Market; and Fifth Ward (later Third District) School began in two rooms rented from a Methodist Episcopal church on Cowart Street.

Chattanooga High School was organized in December 1874, known until 1904 as Central High School.  It first met in the two rooms on top floor of the three-floor Masonic Academy, also a former Civil War hospital, located at what were Gillespie (West 11th) and Early (Cedar) Streets before the Golden Gateway project obliterated them.

By the 1875-1876 school year, the city’s Third District Colored School (later called Fifth Ward School) had begun operation, as had the Second District School, Masonic Institute (on Academy Hill) and the Walnut Street School, both for white children.

In 1880, First District School moved into a new, more spacious building on the corner of McCallie and D (Douglas) Streets, with Central High occupying rooms on its top floor.  Because of that, late 19th century maps of Chattanooga often depict the place as “Central High School”.  Meanwhile, Second District (formerly Third Ward) moved into the Masonic Academy where the high school had been meeting.

By 1883, Howard High School was holding classes in the top floors of its new building at Gilmer (East 8th) and D (Douglas) Streets, next to Shiloh (First) Baptist Church, the first black church in the city, where it continued as the 20th century opened.  A primary-grammar school named Gilmer Street School operated in the lower floors of the building and another in Howard’s former building on East 9th Street called Ninth Street School.

Tadetown School operated near Fort Wood for at least the 1887-1888 school year.  Tadetown was a black community bound on the east and north by the East Tennesee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway, on the west by Hampton Street, and on the south by East 5th Street.

Montgomery Avenue School (formerly Fifth Ward School) opened its doors on Montgomery Avenue (Main Street) and College Street in 1888.

In 1891, Chattanooga Lodge No. 199, F&AM moved into their new Temple on Cherry and Seventh Streets (the former Mountain City Club), and Second District School moved down to the lower floors of the Old Academy.  With the First District facility now overcrowded, Central High also moved into thus vacated upper spaces of the Old Academy.

Meanwhile, Third District School moved into its newly built facility at Long and John (W. 21st) Streets in 1891, and the Manual Training School opened its doors in the former Ninth Street School.  Unfortunately, the school board was forced to close the latter at the end of the 1892-1893 school year due to lack of funds.

In 1896, the Old Academy burned to the ground.  A new building for Second District School opened at the same spot in the fall of 1897, as Central High School moved into the D.C. McMillan House at 111 Gilmer (East 8th) Street, in which it met when the new century began.  Meanwhile, Park Place School opened its doors the same year, initially as an overflow facility to relieve overcrowding in nearby First District School.

Hamilton County and Chattanooga City Schools, 1900 to present

This is the growth of schools in Hamilton County and the City of Chattanooga from the earliest date for which the Chattanooga Public Library has record to the current year (2019).  Not every year is represented, of course, but enough to get a general idea of their development and change over the past one hundred fourteen years.

From their inception in 1867 and 1873 until 1962, both systems segregated their students by race as a matter of law and policy.  After that date, the schools were legally desegregated; practically was another matter entirely.  Some schools were better than others, at least for a while.

In cases where the name of a school for black children shared a name with a school for white children, the descriptor “Colored” was added to the name of the one for Afro-American kids, even if it was older (as was the case with Chickamauga and Eastdale), in school system documents.  At least in the county system; the city system ensured its black and white schools in the same community had separate names, and when annexing new communities either changed the name of the black school or closed it down entirely.

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1900-1901

White

At the opening of the century, high school grades were taught at the follow schools: Avondale, Gold Point, Highland Park, Hixson, Ridgedale, Red Bank, St. Elmo, Sale Creek, Sherman Heights, Soddy, Tyner, and Walnut Grove.

Alton Park School
Avondale School; Dodson and Camden
Brown’s Chapel School
Chickamauga School; at the later Lovell Field
Citico School; Johnson (Scruggs) St., Wm. Gillespie Tract
Coulterville School
Daisy School; previously absorbed Melville School
East End School; E. 37th and Clio Ave.
*East Lake School; E. 37th and 14th Ave.
East Side School; in the later East Ridge
Fairmount School
Fairview School; Fairview Rd., a mile north of Hamill Rd.
Falling Water School
Flat Top School; Jones Gap Rd. & Perkins Point Rd.
Fox’s School; vicinity of Sale Creek
Gann’s School; Gann Rd., a mile west of Middle Valley Pk.
Gold Point School
Harrison School
Highland Park School
Hill City School, East Side
Hill City School, West Side
+Hixson School
Hot Water School; intersection of Hotwater Rd. & Old Hotwater Rd.
Igou’s Ferry School
Jersey School
Kings Point School
Mayflower School; right angle curve of Mayflower Rd.
McCormick’s Chapel School
Mission Ridge School; next to Bragg Reservation
Moccasin Bend School
Mount Tabor School; Lee Pike, a mile south of Mt. Tabor Rd.
Mowbray School
Mountain Junction School; W. 47th St. and St. Elmo Ave.
Oak Hill School; Bartlebaugh
Oakdale School; on May Rd. a mile north of Oakdale Rd.
Oakwood School; vicinity of Fairmount
Orange Grove School; Main and Fagan, in the suburb of Orange Grove
Pine Hill School
Pleasant Hill School
Red Bank School
Retro School; in Bakewell
+Ridgedale School
Annex to Ridgedale School
Rossville School (annex to East Lake)
St. Elmo School; W. 37th and Broad
Annex to St. Elmo School
+Sale Creek School
Sawyers School
School No. 2, District 4 (commonly called Stringers School)
School No. 3, District 1
School No. 7, District 1; Middle Valley Pk. & Daisy-Harrison Rd.
Shady Grove School; Hixson Pike near Soddy Creek (formerly Welsh School)
Shallow Ford School; formerly Hornville Sch., Oak Grove Sch. before that
** Sherman Heights School; Cushman and Harrison/Dodson Ave.
Silverdale School
+Soddy School
Spring Creek School
Suck School
Sunnyside School; Germantown Road
+Tyner School
Union Fork School; vicinity of Soddy
+Walnut Grove School (South Gunbarrel Road)
Wauhatchie School

* Absorbed East End School by the mid-1890s
** Absorbed Boyce’s East Chattanooga School in the 1890s

Black

High school grades were taught at the following schools, at least: Churchville, Magby Pond, and St. Elmo (Colored).

Bird’s Mill School
Chickamauga School (Colored); at Whispering Pines Mobile Homes
* Churchville School
Coulterville School (Colored)
** Fort Cheatham School; Grant (12th Ave.) and E. 24th
Hill City School (Colored)
Hixson School (Colored); Jasper community
Magby Pond School
Mission Ridge School (Colored); 237 Shallowford Road
Orchard Knob School; E. 4th and Orchard Knob
Retro School (Colored); Bakewell
St. Elmo School (Colored); W. 38th and Church Sts.
School No. 6, District 12; vicinity of Soddy
Sherman Heights School (Colored); 2410 Dodson Avenue
Soddy School (Colored)
Suck School (Colored)
Turkey Foot School
Tyner School (Colored); Hawkinsville
Wauhatchie School (Colored)

* Absorbed Bushtown School by the end of the 1890s
** Absorbed End End School (Colored) in the 1890s

Originally, schools were listed simply by their numerical designations in each district, and only gradually the local names began to take precedence.  At the start of the 20th century, schools were usually listed by both number and name, if they had one.

Dist. 1: Ganns (No. 1); Gold Point (No. 2); No. 3 (Gold Point); Daisy (No. 4); No. 7 (Melville)

Dist. 2: Fairview (No. 1); Hixson (No. 2); Falling Water (No. 3); Hixson-Colored (No. 4); Brown’s Chapel

Dist. 3:  Pleasant Hill School (No. 1); *Mountain Creek (No. 2); Pine Hill (No. 3); Hill City East Side (No. 4); Hill City, West Side (also No. 4); Hill City-Colored (No. 5);Moccasin Bend School; Suck School; Suck School-Colored (*aka Stringers School)

Dist. 4: Wauhatchie (No. 1); Stringers (No. 2); Wauhatchie-Colored; Shoals School

Dist. 5: Sunnyside (No. 1); Ridgedale (No. 2); Orange Grove (No. 2); Mission Ridge-Colored (No. 3); Fort Cheatham (No. 4); Spring Creek (No. 5); Shallow Ford (No. 6); Mission Ridge (No. 8); Highland Park; Annex to Ridgedale; Bird’s Mill

Dist. 6: Sherman Heights (No. 1); Avondale (No. 2); Kings Point School (No. 3); Sherman Heights-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 7: Oak Hill (No. 2); Turkey Foot (No. 3); Harrison-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 8: Mowbray (No. 1)

Dist. 9: East Lake (No. 1); East Side (No. 2); Rossville School (annex to East Lake)

Dist. 10: Churchville (No. 1); Citico (No. 2); Orchard Knob (No. 3)
         (Bushtown, No. 4, consolidated with Churchville before 1900)

Dist. 11: Fox’s (No.1); No. 2; Mayflower (No. 3); Oakdale (No. 4)

Dist. 12: Soddy (No. 1); Union Fork (No. 2); Shady Grove (No. 3); Hot Water (No. 4); Soddy School-Colored (No. 6); Claysville (No. 7)

Dist. 13: Retro (No. 1); Flat Top (No. 2); Mt. Tabor (No. 3); Retro-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 14: City of Chattanooga

Dist. 15: Chickamauga-Colored (No. 1); Chickamauga (No. 2); Walnut Grove (No. 3)

Dist. 16: Fairmount (No. 1); Sawyers (No. 2); Oakwood (No. 3)

Dist. 17: St. Elmo, 17th District (No. 1); Alton Park; St. Elmo-Colored

Dist. 18: Tyner (No. 2); Kings Point (No. 3)*; Jersey (No. 4); Magby Pond (No. 5); Tyner-Colored (No. 6)
         (*Kings Point School’s assignment here was an anomaly, as the bulk of the community it served lay in the Sixth Civil District.)

Dist. 19:  Town of Lookout Mountain

Dist. 20: St. Elmo, 20th District

Dist. 21: Coulterville; Coulterville-Colored

Dist. 22: Igou’s Ferry

Dist. 23: Red Bank

Dist. 24: Sale Creek

Dist. 26: Silverdale

Dist. 27: Harrison

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1900-1901

White

Central High School; 111 Gilmer (East 8th)
First District School; McCallie and D (Douglas)
Park Place School; Park and Fairview
Second District School; Gillespie (W. 11th) and Early (Cedar)
Third District School; Williams and John (W. 21st)
Park Place School (Annex to First District)

Although often referred to at the time as “the city high school”, its official designation was indeed Central High School, though it was also called Chattanooga High School.  This continued into 1906 when the county’s plans to build its own Central High School on Dodds Avenue began to come to fruition.  Thereafter it became City High School.

Black

Oliver O. Howard High School; Gilmer (East 8th) and D (Douglas)
Montgomery Avenue (Main Street) School; Main and College
Gilmer (East 8th) Street School; became Gillespie Street School

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1902-1903

White

Alton Park School
Avondale School; Dodson and Camden
Brown’s Chapel School
Chickamauga School; at the later Lovell Field
Citico School
Coulterville School
Daisy School
East End School; E. 37th and Clio Ave.
* East Lake School; E. 37th and 14th Ave.
East Side School; in the later East Ridge
Fairmount School
Fairview School; Fairview Rd., a mile north of Hamill Rd.
Falling Water School
Flat Top School; Jones Gap Rd. & Perkins Point Rd.
Fox’s School; vicinity of Sale Creek
Gann’s School; Gann Rd., a mile west of Middle Valley Pk.
Gold Point School
Harrison School
Highland Park School
Hill City School, East Side
Hill City School, West Side
+Hixson School
Hot Water School; intersection of Hotwater Rd. & Old Hotwater Rd.
Igou’s Ferry School
Jersey School
* Kings Point School
Mayflower School; right angle curve of Mayflower Rd.
McCormick’s Chapel School
Mission Ridge School; next to Bragg Reservation
Moccasin Bend School.
Mount Tabor School; Lee Pike, a mile south of Mt. Tabor Rd.
Mountain Creek School
** Mountain Junction School
Mowbray School
Oak Hill School; Bartlebaugh
Oakdale School; on May Rd. a mile north of Oakdale Rd.
Oakwood School; vicinity of Fairmount
Orange Grove School; Main and Fagan, in the suburb of Orange Grove
Pine Hill School
Pleasant Hill School
Red Bank School
Retro School; in Bakewell
+Ridgedale School
Annex to Ridgedale School
St. Elmo School; W. 37th and Broad
Annex to St. Elmo School
** St. Elmo School, 20th District; W. 47th St. and St. Elmo Ave.
+Sale Creek School
Sawyers School
School No. 2, District 4 (commonly called Stringers School)
School No. 3, District 1
School No. 7, District 1; Middle Valley Pk. & Daisy-Harrison Rd.
Shady Grove School; Hixson Pike near Soddy Creek
Shallow Ford School; formerly Hornville Sch., Oak Grove Sch. before that
Sherman Heights School; Cushman and Harrison/Dodson Ave.
Silverdale School
+Soddy School
Spring Creek School
*** Suck School
Sunnyside School; Gillespie (North Germantown) Road
+Tyner School
Union Fork School; vicinity of Soddy
+Walnut Grove School (South Gunbarrel Road)
Wauhatchie School

* Discontinued by the state at the end of the year.
** St. Elmo School, 20th District after this year
*** Discontinued after this year, students ferried to Shoals School across the Tennessee River in Cash Canyon

Black

High school grades were taught at the following schools, at least: Churchville, Magby Pond, and St. Elmo (Colored).

* Bird’s Mill School
Chickamauga School (Colored)
Churchville School
Coulterville School (Colored)
Fort Cheatham School; Grant (12th Ave.) and E. 24th
Hill City School (Colored)
Hixson School (Colored); Jasper community
Magby Pond School
Mission Ridge School (Colored); 237 Shallowford Road
Orchard Knob School; E. 4th and Orchard Knob
Retro School (Colored); Bakewell
St. Elmo School (Colored); W. 38th and Church Sts.
School No. 6, District 12; vicinity of Soddy
Sherman Heights School (Colored); 2410 Dodson Avenue
Soddy School (Colored)
** Suck School (Colored)
Turkey Foot School
Tyner School (Colored); Hawkinsville
Wauhatchie School (Colored)

* Discontinued after the next year.
** Discontinued after this year; students to Hill City (Colored)

Dist. 1:  Ganns (No. 1); Gold Point (No. 2); No. 3 (Gold Point); Daisy (No. 4); No. 7 (Melville)

Dist. 2:  Fairview (No. 1); Hixson (No. 2); Falling Water (No. 3); Hixson-Colored (No. 4); Brown’s Chapel

Dist. 3:  Mountain Creek (No. 2); Pine Hill (No. 3); Hill City East Side (No. 4); Hill City, West Side (also No. 4); Hill City-Colored (No. 5); Suck School

Dist. 4:  Wauhatchie (No. 1); Stringers (No. 2); Wauhatchie-Colored; Shoals School

Dist. 5:  Sunnyside (No. 1); Ridgedale (No. 2); Orange Grove (No. 2); Mission Ridge-Colored (No. 3); Fort Cheatham (No. 4); Spring Creek (No. 5); Shallow Ford (No. 6); Mission Ridge (No. 8); Highland Park; Annex to Ridgedale; Bird’s Mill

Dist. 6:  Sherman Heights (No. 1); Avondale (No. 2); Kings Point School (No. 3); Sherman Heights-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 7:  Oak Hill (No. 2); Turkey Foot (No. 3); Harrison-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 8:  Mowbray (No. 1)

Dist. 9:  East Lake (No. 1); East Side (No. 2); Rossville School

Dist. 10:  Orchard Knob (No. 1); Citico (No. 2); Churchville (No. 3)

Dist. 11:  Fox’s (No.1); No. 2; Mayflower (No. 3); Oakdale (No. 4)

Dist. 12:  Soddy (No. 1); Union Fork (No. 2); Shady Grove (No. 3); Hot Water (No. 4); Soddy School-Colored (No. 6); Claysville (No. 7)

Dist. 13: Retro (No. 1); Flat Top (No. 2); Mt. Tabor (No. 3); Retro-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 14:  City of Chattanooga

Dist. 15: Chickamauga-Colored (No. 1); Chickamauga (No. 2); Walnut Grove (No. 3)

Dist. 16: Fairmount (No. 1); Sawyers (No. 2); Oakwood (No. 3)

Dist. 17: St. Elmo, 17th District (No. 1); Alton Park; St. Elmo-Colored

Dist. 18: Tyner (No. 2); Kings Point (No. 3); Jersey (No. 4); Magby Pond (No. 5); Tyner-Colored (No. 6)

Dist. 19:  Town of Lookout Mountain

Dist. 20: St. Elmo, 20th District

Dist. 21: Coulterville; Coulterville-Colored

Dist. 22: Igou’s Ferry

Dist. 23: Red Bank

Dist. 24: Sale Creek

Dist. 26: Silverdale

Dist. 27: Harrison

At the end of the 1902-1903 schools year, the Hamilton County court voted to resynchronize school districts with the county’s civil districts, then numbering twenty.  Hence, the 21st school district was merged into the 11th school district; the 22nd was merged into the 12th with part of its student reassigned to the 1st; the 23rd was merged into the 3rd, with part of its students reassigned to the 2nd; the 24th was merged into the 11th; the 25th did not exist; the 26th was merged into 18th, with some of its students transferred to the 7th; and the 27th was merged into the 7th.  Two years later, however, there were twenty-one school districts.

All schools but one were kept; students of the small Suck School on Moccasin Bend were ferried across the Tennessee River to the Shoals School in Cash Canyon community, then in the Fourth Civil District.  The latter was named for the Tumbling Shoals just below William Island later erased by the building of Hales Bar Dam.  This resulted in that part of the left bank of the river being detached and reassigned to the Third Civil District.

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1904-1905

White

Alton Park School
Avondale School
*Brown’s Chapel School
Chickamauga School
Citico School
Coulterville School
Daisy School
East End School
East Lake School
East Side School
Fairmount School
Fairview School
*Falling Water School
Flat Top School
Fox’s School
Gann’s School
Gold Point School
Harrison School
Highland Park School (annexed to the city as 4th District School)
Hill City School, East Side
Hill City School, West Side
+Hixson School
Hot Water School
Igou’s Ferry School
Jersey School
Mayflower School
McCormick’s Chapel School
Mission Ridge School
Moccasin Bend School (opened year before)
Mount Tabor School
Mountain Creek School
Mowbray School
Oak Hill School
Oakdale School
Oakwood School
Orange Grove School
Pine Hill School
Pleasant Hill School
Red Bank School
Retro School
+Ridgedale School
Annex to Ridgedale School
Rossville School (Annex to East Lake)
St. Elmo School
Annex to St. Elmo School
St. Elmo School, 20th District
+Sale Creek School
Sawyers School
School No. 3, District 1
School No. 7, District 1
Shady Grove School
Shallow Ford School
Sherman Heights School
Silverdale School
+Soddy School
Spring Creek School
Stringers School
Sunnyside School
+Tyner School
Union Fork School; vicinity of Soddy
+Walnut Grove School
Wauhatchie School

*Brown’s Chapel and Falling Water were consolidated as Central Grove

Black

Chickamauga School (Colored)
Churchville School
Coulterville School (Colored)
Fort Cheatham School
Hill City School (Colored)
Hixson School (Colored)
Magby Pond School
Mission Ridge School (Colored)
Orchard Knob School
Retro School (Colored)
School No. 6, District 12
Sherman Heights School (Colored)
Soddy School (Colored)
St. Elmo School (Colored)
Turkey Foot School
Tyner School (Colored)
Wauhatchie School (Colored)

Dist. 1:  Ganns (No. 1); Gold Point (No. 2); No. 3 (Gold Point); Daisy (No. 4); No. 7 (Melville)

Dist. 2:  Fairview (No. 1); Hixson (No. 2); Falling Water (No. 3); Hixson-Colored (No. 4); Brown’s Chapel (No. 5)

Dist. 3:  Pleasant Hill School (No. 1); Red Bank (No. 1); Moccasin Bend School (No. 2); Mountain Creek (No. 2); Pine Hill (No. 3); Hill City East Side (No. 4); Hill City, West Side (also No. 4); Hill City-Colored (No. 5)

Dist. 4:  Wauhatchie (No. 1); Stringers (No. 2); Wauhatchie-Colored

Dist. 5:  Sunnyside (No. 1); Ridgedale (No. 2); Orange Grove (No. 2); Mission Ridge-Colored (No. 3); Fort Cheatham (No. 4); Spring Creek (No. 5); Shallow Ford (No. 6); Mission Ridge (No. 8); Highland Park School; Annex to Ridgedale

Dist. 6:  Sherman Heights (No. 1); Avondale (No. 2); Sherman Heights-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 7:  Harrison (No. 1); Oak Hill (No. 2); Turkey Foot (No. 3); Harrison-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 8:  Mowbray (No. 1)

Dist. 9:  East Lake (No. 1); East Side (No. 2); Rossville

Dist. 10:  Orchard Knob (No. 1); Churchville (No. 3)

Dist. 11:  Fox’s (No.1); No. 2; Mayflower (No. 3); Oakdale (No. 4); Sale Creek (No. 5); Coulterville (No. 6); Coulterville-Colored (No. 7)

Dist. 12:  Soddy (No. 1); Union Fork (No. 2); Hot Water (No. 4); Shady Grove (No. 5); Soddy School-Colored) (No. 6); Igou’s Ferry (No. 7); Claysville (No. 7)

Dist. 13: Retro (No. 1); Flat Top (No. 2); Mt. Tabor (No. 3); Retro-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 14:  City of Chattanooga

Dist. 15: Chickamauga-Colored (No. 1); Chickamauga (No. 2); Walnut Grove (No. 3)

Dist. 16: Fairmount (No. 1); Sawyers (No. 2); Oakwood (No. 3)

Dist. 17: St. Elmo, 17th District (No. 1); Alton Park

Dist. 18: Silverdale (No. 1); Tyner (No. 2); Jersey (No. 4); Magby Pond (No. 5); Tyner-Colored (No. 6)

Dist. 19:  Town of Lookout Mountain

Dist. 20: St. Elmo, 20th District (No. 1)

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1905-1906

White

Alton Park School

Avondale School

*Central Grove School; District 2

Chickamauga School
** Citico School

Coulterville School

Daisy School

East End School

East Lake School

East Side School

Fairmount School

Fairview School

Flat Top School

Fox’s School

Gann’s School

Gold Point School

Harrison School

Hill City School, East Side

Hill City School, West Side

+Hixson School

Hot Water School

Igou’s Ferry School

Jersey School

Mayflower School

Mission Ridge School

Moccasin Bend School

Mount Tabor School

Mountain Creek School

Mowbray School

Oak Hill School

Oakdale School

Oakwood School

Orange Grove School

Pine Hill School

** Pleasant Hill School

Red Bank School

Retro School

+Ridgedale School

Annex to Ridgedale School

St. Elmo School

Annex to St. Elmo School

St. Elmo School, 20th District

+Sale Creek School

Sawyers School
School No. 3, District 12
School No. 7, District 1

Shady Grove School

Shallow Ford School

Sherman Heights School

Silverdale School

+Soddy School

Spring Creek School
Stringers School

Sunnyside School

Tyner School

Union Fork School

+Walnut Grove School

Wauhatchie School

*Central Grove was the consolidation of Falling Water and Brown’s Chapel

** Discontinued after this year

Black

Chickamauga School (Colored)

Churchville School; merged into Orchard Knob

Coulterville School (Colored)

Fort Cheatham School

Hill City School (Colored)

Hixson School (Colored)

Magby Pond School

Mission Ridge School (Colored)

School No. 6, District 12

Orchard Knob School

Retro School (Colored)

Sherman Heights School (Colored)

Soddy School (Colored)

St. Elmo School (Colored)

Turkey Foot School

Tyner School (Colored)

Wauhatchie School (Colored); merged into St. Elmo (Colored)

Dist. 1:  Ganns (No.1); Gold Point (No. 2); No. 3 (Gold Point also); Daisy (No. 4); No. 7 (Melville)

Dist. 2:  Fairview (No. 1); Hixson (2); Central Grove (Nos. 3&5); Hixson-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 3:  Pleasant Hill (No. 1); Moccasin Bend School (No. 2); Pine Hill (No. 3); Hill City East Side (No. 4); Hill City, West Side (also No. 4); Hill City-Colored (No. 5)

Dist. 4:  Wauhatchie (No. 1); Shoals School (No. 2); Wauhatchie-Colored (No. 3)

Dist. 5:  Sunnyside (No. 1); Ridgedale (No. 2); Orange Grove (No. 2); Mission Ridge-Colored (No. 3); Fort Cheatham (No. 4); Spring Creek (No. 5); Shallow Ford (No. 6); Mission Ridge (No. 8); Annex to Ridgedale

Dist. 6:  Sherman Heights (No. 1); Avondale (No. 2); Sherman Heights-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 7:  Harrison (No. 1); Oak Hill (No. 2); Turkey Foot (No. 3); Harrison-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 8:  Mowbray (No. 1)

Dist. 9:  East Lake (No. 1); East Side (No. 2); Rossville

Dist. 10:  Orchard Knob (No. 1); Churchville (No. 3)

Dist. 11:  Fox’s (No. 1); No. 2; Mayflower (No. 3); Oakdale (No. 4); Sale Creek (No. 5); Coulterville (No. 6); Coulterville-Colored (No. 7)

Dist. 12:  Soddy (No. 1); Union Fork (No. 2); Shady Grove (No. 3); Hot Water (No. 4); Soddy-Colored (No. 5); No. 6; Igou’s Ferry (No. 7)

Dist. 13:  Retro (No. 1); Flat Top (No. 2); Mt. Tabor (No. 3); Retro-Colored (No. 4)

Dist. 15:  Chickamauga-Colored (No. 1); Chickamauga (No. 2); Walnut Grove (No. 3)

Dist. 16:  Fairmount (No. 1); Sawyers (No. 2); Oakwood (No. 3)

Dist. 17:  St. Elmo, 17th District (No. 1); Alton Park; St. Elmo-Colored; Annex to St. Elmo

Dist. 18:  Silverdale (No. 1); Tyner (No. 2); Jersey (No. 4); Magby Pond (No. 5); Tyner-Colored (No. 6)

Dist. 19:  Town of Lookout Mountain

Dist. 20:  St. Elmo, 20th District (No. 1)

Dist. 21:  Mountain Creek; Red Bank

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1905-1906

Chattanooga High School’s new home of 1905 at 413 East 8th Street between Houston and Mabel Streets a few blocks further down from its previous location on East 8th Street was named the Dickinson Building.

White

Central High School; 111 East 8th (Gilmer)
First District School; McCallie and Douglas)
* Park Place School; Park and Fairview
Second District School; Gillespie (W. 11th) and Early (Cedar)
Third District School; Williams and John (W. 21st)

* Opened as a separate school 1903-1904

Black

In 1904, Howard High School moved into a new building on East 11th Street between Foster and Clift (Douglas) Streets (the section of Douglas south of Gillespie or East 11th was then named Clift Street).  Its building mate, Gilmer Street School, moved with it and became Eleventh Street School.

Oliver O. Howard High School; East 11th and Douglas
* Montgomery Avenue School; Main and College
** Fifth Street School; East 5th and Southern Railway
** Eleventh Street School; East 11th and Foster
*** East Ninth Street School; East 9th and Lindsay

* Name changed to Main Street School in April 1908.

** Fifth Street School opened the year before; Eleventh Street School opened this school year.  At three stories, the latter was the larger of the two.

*** Operated as such from at least fall 1902 thru spring 1907.  (In 1902, it was assigned to gather contributions for Christmas for the Steele Home for Colored Orphans; in 1907, it was reported to have had the highest average attendance for grammar schools in the city.)

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1907-1908

Hamilton County got its first separate high schools in this term.  In the early years, a high school usually included grades 7-12.

White

Central High School; absorbed programs at Ridgedale and Sherman Heights
*Hixson High School; absorbed program at Gold Point
Soddy High School; absorbed program at Red Bank
Tyner High School; absorbed program at Walnut Grove

*Classes did not begin until the 1908-1909 school year

Alton Park School

Avondale School

Central Grove School, District 2

Central Grove School, District 11

Chickamauga School

Coulterville School; merged into Sale Creek

Daisy School

East Chattanooga School; was Sherman Heights

East Lake School

East Side School; consolidated with Spring Creek as John Ross

Fairmount School

Fairview School

Flat Top School

Gann School

Gold Point School

Harrison School

Hill City School, South Side

Hill City School, North Side

Hixson School

Igou’s Ferry School

*King’s Point School

Jersey School

Mayflower School

Mission Ridge School

Mount Tabor School

Mountain Creek School

Mowbray School

Montlake School

Oak Hill School

Oakdale School

Oakwood School

Orange Grove School

Pine Hill School

Red Bank School

Retro School

Ridgedale School

St. Elmo School (became North St. Elmo)

St. Elmo School, 20th District (became South St. Elmo)

Sale Creek School

Sawyers School

School No. 3, District 12

Shady Grove School

Shallow Ford School (became Eastdale)

Shoals School; Cash Canyon Road

Silverdale School

Soddy School; 1-12

Spring Creek School; consolidated with East Side as John Ross

Stringers School

Sunnyside School

Tyner School; 1-12

Union Fork School

Walden School

Walnut Grove School

Wauhatchie School

*Reopened the previous year.

Black

*Orchard Knob High School; absorbed programs at Churchville and Magby Pond

Chickamauga School (Colored)

Coulterville School (Colored); merged into Soddy (Colored)

Daisy School (Colored)

Fort Cheatham School

Harrison School (Colored)

Hill City School (Colored)

Hixson School (Colored)

Magby Pond School

Mission Ridge School (Colored); became Eastdale (Colored)

No. 6 School

Orchard Knob School

Retro School (Colored)

Sherman Heights School (Colored); became East Chattanooga (Colored)

Soddy School (Colored)

St. Elmo School (Colored)

Turkey Foot School

Tyner School (Colored)

*Orchard Knob High School moved into Bushtown at the northwest corner of North Holly Street and Citico Avenue and became Abraham Lincoln High School in the 1914-1915 school year.  After annexation of the city’s new Twelfth Ward was finalized in 1925, it became Lincoln Junior High and its high school students sent to Howard High.

Except for the three schools which had no local name, number designations for the schools were dropped this year.

The districts for this school year:

Dist. 1:  Daisy; Daisy (Colored); Ganns; Gold Point; No. 3

Dist. 2:  Central Grove**; Fairview; Hixson; Hixson (Colored)

Dist. 3:  Hill City (Colored); Hill City, South Side; Hill City, North Side;
Pine Hill; Shoals*

Dist. 4:  No. 2; Wauhatchie

Dist. 5:  Fort Cheatham; Mission Ridge; Mission Ridge (Colored); Orange Grove; Ridgedale; Shallow Ford; Spring Creek; Sunnyside

Dist. 6:  Avondale; East Chattanooga; King’s Point; Sherman Heights (Colored)

Dist. 7:  Harrison; Harrison (Colored); Oak Hill; Turkey Foot

Dist. 8:  Montlake; Mowbray

Dist. 9:  East Lake; East Side

Dist. 10:  Orchard Knob

Dist. 11:  Central Grove**; Coulterville; Coulterville (Colored); Mayflower; Oakdale; Sale Creek

Dist. 12:  Igou’s Ferry; No. 6; Shady Grove; Soddy; Union Fork

Dist. 13:  Flat Top; Mt. Tabor; Retro; Retro (Colored); Waldron

Dist. 15:  Chickamauga (Colored); Chickamauga; Walnut Grove

Dist. 16:  Fairmount; Oakwood; Sawyers

Dist. 17:  Alton Park; St. Elmo

Dist. 18:  Jersey; Magby Pond; Silverdale; Tyner; Tyner (Colored)

Dist. 20:  St. Elmo, 20th District

Dist. 21:  Mountain Creek; Red Bank

*While it may seem odd that Shoals School on the left bank of the Tennessee River was in the same district as the other schools which were all on the right bank, rural roads in the early 20th century were often in such poor condition that Shoals School was more accessible to Pine Hill and the three Hill City schools via the Williams Ferry, even with the still present and active Tumbling Shoals (Hales Bar Dam wasn’t closed till 1913).

**According to the directory for Hamilton County Schools for this year, there were indeed two separate schools named Central Grove.

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1911-1912

White

Central High School

Hixson High School

Soddy High School

Tyner High School

Alton Park School

Avondale School; annexed to CCS 1925

Central Grove School

Chickamauga School

Daisy School

East Chattanooga School; 2800 Dodson Ave., annexed to CCS 1925

East Lake School; annexed to CCS 1925

Fairview School

Fairmount School

Ganns School

Gold Point School

Harrison School

Hixson School

Igou School

Kings Point School

Jersey School

Miller Grove School

Mission Ridge School

Montlake School

Mountain Creek School

Normal Park School

North St. Elmo School

South Side, North Chattanooga School

Oak Hill School

Oakwood School; merged into Fairmount

Orange Grove School; annexed into CCS 1914

Pine Hill School; became Pineville

Red Bank School

Retro School; became Bakewell

Ridgedale School; annexed into CCS 1914

John Ross School; East Side and Spring Creek consolidated

Rossville School; became Cedar Hill after annexation

Sawyers School

Shady Grove School

Shoals School; became Riverside

Silverdale School

Soddy School

South St. Elmo School

Sunnyside School

Tyner School

Union Fork School; merged into Soddy

Walnut Grove School; moved to Bird’s Mill Road 1912

Wauhatchie School; merged into Patten Chapel’s

Black

Orchard Knob High School

Chickamauga School (Colored)

Daisy School (Colored)

East Chattanooga School (Colored); 2416 Dodson, closed by CCS 1925

Eastdale School (Colored); was Mission Ridge (Colored)

East End School

Fort Cheatham School; annexed to CCS 1923

Harrison School (Colored)

Hixson Colored School

Magby Pond School; consolidated into Washington School 1924

North Chattanooga School (Colored)

Orchard Knob School; annexed to CCS 1923

Retro School (Colored); became Bakewell (Colored)

St. Elmo School (Colored)

Soddy School (Colored)

Turkey Foot School; consolidated into Washington School 1924

Tyner School (Colored); consolidated into Washington School 1924

The districts for this school year (the county was redistricted in 1905):

District 1:  Chattanooga City (see below); included Central High

District 2:  Brown’s Chapel, Central Grove, Fairmount, Fairview, Gann, Gold Point, Hixson, Hixson (Colored), Hixson High, Mountain Creek, Normal Park, North Chattanooga, North Chattanooga (Colored), Pine Hill, Red Bank, Sawyers, Shoal, Roberts Mill, Valdeau

District 3:  Coulterville, Coulterville (Colored), Crabtree, Daisy, Daisy (Colored), Flat Top, Igou, McCormick’s Chapel, Mayflower, Miller’s Grove, Montlake, Mt. Tabor, Mowbray, Oakdale, Pankey (Colored), Retro, Retro (Colored), Sale Creek, Shady Grove, Soddy, Soddy (Colored), Soddy High, Union Fork

District 4:  Alton Park, North St. Elmo, St. Elmo (Colored), South St. Elmo

District 5:  Chickamauga, Chickamauga (Colored), East End (Colored), Mission Ridge, East Lake (Colored), East Side (Colored), Eastdale (Colored), Fort Cheatham (Colored), Rossville, Walnut Grove

District 6:  Avondale, East Chattanooga, East Chattanooga (Colored), Jersey, King’s Point, Harrison, Harrison (Colored), Lincoln High (Colored), Magby Pond, Oak Hills, Orchard Knob (Colored), Perry, Silverdale, Tyner, Tyner (Colored), Tyner High

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1914-1915

White

Central High School
Hixson High School
Soddy High School
Tyner High School

Alton Park School
Avondale School
Brown’s Chapel School
Central Grove School
Chickamauga School
Coulterville School
Crabtree School
Daisy School
East Chattanooga School
East Lake School
East Side School
Fairmount School
Fairview School
Flat Top School
Gann School
Gold Point School
Harrison School
Hixson School
Igou School
Jersey School
King’s Point School
McCormick’s Chapel School
Mayflower School
Miller’s Grove School
Mission Ridge School
Montlake School
Mt. Tabor School
Mountain Creek School
Mowbray School
Normal Park School
North Chattanooga School
North St. Elmo School
Oak Hills School
Oakdale School
Perry School
Pine Hill School
Red Bank School
Retro School
Roberts Mill School
Rossville School
Sale Creek School
Sawyers School
Shady Grove School
Shoals School
Silverdale School
Soddy School
South St. Elmo School
Tyner School
Union Fork School
Valdeau School
Walnut Grove School

Black

Orchard Knob High School moved into Bushtown at the northwest corner of North Holly Street and Citico Avenue and became Abraham Lincoln High School in the 1914-1915 school year.  The new institution also included a grammar school of the same name.

Abraham Lincoln High School

Chickamauga (Colored) School
Coulterville (Colored) School
Daisy (Colored) School
*East Chattanooga (Colored) School
East End School
Eastdale School
Fort Cheatham School
Harrison (Colored) School
Hixson (Colored) School
Abraham Lincoln Grammar School
Magby Pond School
North Chattanooga (Colored) School
Orchard Knob School
Pankey School
Retro (Colored) School
St. Elmo (Colored) School
Soddy (Colored) School
Turkey Foot School
Tyner (Colored) School

*In 1921, East Chattanooga School (Colored) moved into a new, larger, more centrally located building at 906 Dodson Ave.

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1914-1915

White

Chattanooga High School; 413 Gilmer (East 8th), between Houston and Mabel
First District School; McCallie and Douglas, became Clara Carpenter
Second District School
Third District School
Fourth District School; formerly Highland Park School
Park Place School
Chestnut Street School; Chestnut and W. 4th
Jefferson Street School; Jefferson and E. 18th
Hemlock School; Highland Park and E. 12th
Ridgedale School
Oak Grove School
Orange Grove School

Black

Howard High School; Gillespie between Foster and Clift (Douglas)
Gillespie Street School; became Eleventh Street School
Montgomery Avenue School; Main and College, became Main Street School
Carolina Street School; became East Fifth Street School
Chattanooga Avenue School; 28th and Williams

Former James County Schools (JCS), 1920

In 1871, the eastern part of Hamilton County and some western parts of Bradley County were divided off to form James County.  In the east, county line ran southwesterly from Harrison, passing east of the George House house in Silverdale and meeting the Georgia stateline at or near Blackwell’s Ford (behind the far end of the driving range at Council Fire). 

In 1919, beset by many problems that included two county courthouses burning down, James County folded and returned to Hamilton, taking the parts contributed by Bradley.

In the consolidation of the two counties, Hamilton County reorganized into four, rather than five, civil districts, the former James County making up the bigger county’s District 4.

White

Ooltewah High School; formerly James County High

Apison School
Birchwood (formerly Rutherford Graded School)
Cross Roads School (Mahan Gap & Ooltewah-Georgetown Rds.)
Fairview School, District 4 (later merged into Ooltewah)
Friendship School
Howardville School (orig. Union Shed School; merged into Apison 1925)
Maddux School
New Union
Ooltewah School
Prospect School (later merged into Apison)
Salem School
Savannah Grove School
Snow Hill School
Sylar School
Tallant School
West Point School (became West View in 1924)
White Oak School (merged into West View in 1924)

Black

Georgetown School (Colored)
Harrison School (Colored)
Ooltewah School (Colored)
Summit School

James Co. Schools closed before county consolidation

Apison School (Colored); closed due to lack of pupils
Baker’s School; merged into Birchwood
Blue Springs School; consolidated into Friendship
Deer Lick School; consolidated into Friendship
Honestville School; merged into Ooltewah
Morris Hill School; became West Point*
Priddy School; consolidated into Friendship
Providence School; merged into Snow Hill
Rains School; consolidated into Friendship

*After moving from Morris Hill location to a point halfway between Ryall Springs and Westview communities.

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1921-1922

White

Wyatt High School*; Harrison Avenue (East 3rd St.)

East Side Junior High School; Main and Kelly

Central Junior High School; E. 8th and Houston in the formerly City High building; became Dickinson Jr. High

First District School; became Clara Carpenter

Second District School

Third District School

Highland Park Grammar School; Hawthorne and Union

Chestnut Street School; Chestnut and W. 4th

Hemlock School; Highland Park and E. 12th

Jefferson Street School; Jefferson and E. 18th

Open Air School; 818 Dodds Avenue

Oak Grove School

Orange Grove School

Park Place School; E. 9th and Fairview

Ridgedale School; Dodds and Anderson

*The school officially became Chattanooga High School (City) in fall 1922 and remained thus through the end of the 1962-1963 school year.  Prior to that, from the time planning began in 1916 until its first year, the school was known as Wyatt High School and was sometimes still called that into the late 1920s.  The central building of CSAS is still named Wyatt Hall.  The school’s wings were added by the WPA in 1937, the west wing named for math teacher Anneta Trimble and the east wing for English teacher Lucy Holtzclaw McDonald.

Black

Howard High School; now at Carter and W. 10th

Chattanooga Avenue School

East Fifth Street School

Main Street School

Eleventh Street School; in old Howard High

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1923-1924

White

Birchwood High School
Central High School
Daisy High School
Hixson High School
*North Chattanooga Central High School
Ooltewah High School
Soddy High School
Sale Creek High School
Tyner High School

Apison School
Bakewell School
Birchwood School
Brown’s Chapel School
Central Grove School
Chickamauga School
Coulterville School; merged into Sale Creek
Cross Roads School; later merged into Snow Hill
Daisy School
East Ridge School; formerly John Ross
Fairmount School
Fairview School, District 3
Fairview School, District 4; merged into Hixson
Flat Top School
Friendship School
Gann School
Gold Point School
Harrison School
Howardville School
Jersey School
King’s Point School
Maddux School
McCormick’s Chapel School; merged into Daisy
Miller’s Grove School
Mountain Creek School
Montlake School
Mowbray School
New Providence School; Daughtery Ferry Rd. at the end of Shipley Rd.
New Union School; later consolidated into Meadowview
*Normal Park School
*North Chattanooga School
North St. Elmo School
Oak Hill School
Ooltewah School
Patten’s Chapel School
Perry School; became Amnicola
Pine Hill School
Red Bank School
Riverside School; formerly Shoals
Robert’s Mill School; Roberts Mill Rd. & Falling Water Rd.
Sale Creek School
Salem School
Savannah School; later consolidated into Meadowview
Sawyer School
Shady Grove School
Signal Mountain School
Silverdale School
Snow Hill School
Soddy School
South St. Elmo School
Sunnyside School
Sylar School; later merged into Ooltewah
Tallants School; later merged into Ooltewah
Tyner School
Union Fork School
Walnut Grove School; now on Bird’s Mill Rd.
White Oak School

Students of former Shallow Ford School attended Sunnyside this year and part of the next while their school was being rebuilt as Eastdale School.

*During the time of existence of the Town of North Chattanooga 1915-1929, these schools were part of its independent municipal school system.

Black

Lincoln High School

Bakewell School (Colored)
Chickamauga School (Colored)
Coulterville School (Colored); merged into Soddy (Colored)
East Chattanooga School (Colored); closed by CCS 1925
Georgetown School (Colored)
Hixson School (Colored)
Lincoln Grammar School
Magby Pond School; consolidated into Washington School 1924
Ooltewah School (Colored)
Pankey School
St. Elmo School (Colored)
Soddy School (Colored)
Summit School
Turkey Foot School; consolidated into Washington School 1924
Tyner School (Colored); consolidated into Washington School 1924
Wauhatchie School

As soon as the annexation of the Twelfth Ward was complete in 1925, Lincoln High was reduced to Lincoln Junior High, with its high school students sent to Howard High.  The city shuttered Lincoln Grammar School, cramming its students into Orchard Knob School.

*After the annexation of the remainder of Hill City into the Town of North Chattanooga in 1922, this school was part of its independent municipal school system.

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1927-1928

White

Birchwood High School
Central High School
Daisy High School
Hixson High School
Ooltewah High School
Soddy High School
Sale Creek High School
Tyner High School

Conner Junior High School
Lookout Junior High School

Alton Park School; Highland and W. 47th

Amnicola School; 5th Ave. (Wisdom St.) & 10th St. (Boardman/Belle Arbor Ave.)

Apison School

Bakewell School

Birchwood School

Brown’s Chapel School

Central Grove School; merged into Red Bank

Chickamauga School

Daisy School

East Brainerd School; formerly Walnut Grove

East Ridge School

Eastdale School; was Shallow Ford

Fairmount School

Fairview School

Flat Top School

Friendship School

Ganns School

Gold Point School

Harrison School

Hixson School

Jersey School

Kings Point School

Lupton City School

Miller’s Grove School

Mission Ridge School

Montlake School; merged into Mowbray

Mountain Creek School

Mowbray School

Mount Tabor School

New Providence School; Daughtery Ferry Rd. at the end of Shipley Rd.

Normal Park School

North Chattanooga School

North St. Elmo School; W. 37th and Tennessee

Oak Hill School

Ooltewah School

Patten’s Chapel School

Pineville School; formerly Pine Hill

Red Bank School

Riverside School; formerly Shoals

Robert’s Mill School

Sale Creek School

Salem School; vicinity of Birchwood

Sawyer School

Shady Grove School

Silverdale School

Snow Hill School

Soddy School

South St. Elmo School

Sunnyside School

Tyner Grammar School

Westview School

White Oak School

Black

Bakewell School (Colored); formerly Retro (Colored)

Chickamauga School (Colored)

**East Chattanooga School (Colored)

East Dale School (Colored); Line and South Sts., Eastdale

Georgetown School (Colored)

Harrison School (Colored)

Hixson School (Colored)

North Chattanooga School (Colored)

Soddy School (Colored)

St. Elmo School (Colored)

Summit School

Booker T. Washington School; consolidation of Turkey Foot, Magby Pond, and Tyner (Colored)

*Central Grove School and Robert’s Mill School were merged into Red Bank School after this year.  Brown’s Chapel School was planned to follow likewise, but plans changed.

**While the Chattanooga City Schools system took in East Chattanooga School for white children when it annexed the Twelfth Ward in 1925, it stated its intention to shutter its counterpart for black children.  The Hamilton County Schools maintained it through the end of this school year, then closed it, with the students having the option of transferring to either the overcrowded Orchard Knob School in CCS or the distant Chickamauga School (Colored) in HCS. 

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1928-1929

White

Chattanooga High School (City)

Chattanooga Vocational School

Dickinson Junior High School; formerly Central Jr. High

East Lake Junior High School

East Side Junior High School

Richard Hardy Junior High School; Dodson, near Glass

Avondale School

Cedar Hill School; E. 48th and 14th Ave., annexed 1925

Clara Carpenter School; E. 5th and Douglas, formerly First District

Clifton Hills School; Rossville and E. 31st, annexed 1925

East Chattanooga School

East Lake School

* H. Clay Evans School; W. 6th and Poplar

Hemlock School

Highland Park School

Jefferson Street School

Oak Grove School

Orange Grove School

Park Place School

Ridgedale School

Third District School

* Replaced Chestnut Street and Second District Schools

Black

Howard High School

* Lincoln Junior High School (formerly Lincoln High)

Chattanooga Avenue School

East Fifth Street School

Fort Cheatham School

Main Street School

Orchard Knob School

** Second District School; Cedar and W. 11th

*** Joseph E. Smith School; E. 10th and Peeples

*To deflect the county’s resistance to the city’s annexation of Bushtown, where Lincoln High was located, the Chattanooga City Schools promised to keep its status for both city and county students.  After annexation, they immediately reneged on the promise and downgraded it to a junior high school.

** Formerly for white students

*** Opened fall 1927

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1928-1929

White

Birchwood High School

Central High School

Daisy High School

Hixson High School

Ooltewah High School

Sale Creek High School

Soddy High School

Tyner High School

Central Grammar and Junior High School (North Chattanooga)

Lookout Junior High School

Alton Park School

Amnicola School

Apison School

Bakewell School

Birchwood School

Bonny Oaks Industrial School*

G. Russell Brown School; formerly North Chattanooga

Brown’s Chapel School

Chickamauga School

Daisy School

East Brainerd School; formerly Walnut Grove

East Dale School

East Ridge School

Falling Water School

Fairmount School

Fairview School

Flat Top School

Friendship School

Gann’s School

Gold Point School

Harrison School

Hixson School

Jersey School

Kings Point School

Anna B. Lacey School

Lookout Mountain School

Lupton City School

Maddux School; merged into Friendship

Meadowview School

Miller’s Grove School

Mission Ridge School; annexed to CCS 1929

Mountain Creek School

Mowbray School

New Providence School

Normal Park School

Oak Hill School

Ooltewah School

Patten’s Chapel School; became John A. Patten

Pine Breeze School*

Pineville School

Red Bank School

Riverside School

Sale Creek School

Salem School

Louie Sanderson School; North St. Elmo

Sawyer School

Shady Grove School

Signal Mountain School

Silverdale School

Snow Hill School

South St. Elmo School

Soddy School

Sunnyside School

Tyner Grammar School

Westview School

White Oak School

Black

Bakewell School

Bonny Oaks Industrial School*

Chickamauga School

East Dale School (Colored)

Georgetown School (Colored)

Harrison School (Colored)

Roland Hays School; Riverside Dr. and Crutchfield St.***

Hixson School (Colored)

Lookout Mountain School (Colored)

North Chattanooga School (Colored)

Pine Breeze School**

Soddy School (Colored)

St. Elmo School (Colored)

Summit School

Washington School

*Bonny Oaks Industrial School was operated by the county as of this year

**Pine Breeze School was operated by Pine Breeze Sanitarium.  By necessity, both of these met in the same building but in segregated classrooms.

***Originally to be called Bozentown School.

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1930-1931

White

Chattanooga High School (City)

Chattanooga Technical School

Brainerd Junior High School

Dickinson Junior High School

East Lake Junior High School

East Side Junior High School

Hardy Junior High School
Lookout Junior High School

Alton Park School

Avondale School

G. Russell Brown School

Clara Carpenter School

Cedar Hill School

Central Grammar School

Clifton Hills School

East Chattanooga School

East Lake School

H. Clay Evans School

Glenwood School

Hemlock School

Highland Park School

Jefferson Street School

Mission Ridge School

Normal Park School

Oak Grove School

Orange Grove School

Park Place School

Ridgedale School

Louie Sanderson School

South St. Elmo School

Sunnyside School

Third District School

Black

Howard High School

Lincoln Junior High School

Calvin Donaldson School; Hooker Road

Chattanooga Avenue School

East Fifth Street School

Fort Cheatham School

Main Street School

Orchard Knob School

Second District School

Joseph E. Smith School

Spears Avenue School; formerly North Chattanooga Colored, Spears & Mattucks

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1933-1934

White

Chattanooga High School (City)

Brainerd Junior High School

Chattanooga Technical School

Dickinson Junior High School

East Lake Junior High School

East Side Junior High School

Hardy Junior High School

Lookout Junior High School

North Chattanooga Junior High School

Alton Park School

Avondale School

G. Russell Brown School (North Chattanooga)

Clara Carpenter School

Cedar Hill School

Central Grammar School

Clifton Hills School

East Chattanooga School

East Lake School

H. Clay Evans School

Glenwood School

Hemlock School

Highland Park School

Jefferson Street School

Mission Ridge School

Normal Park School

Oak Grove School

Orange Grove School

Park Place School

Ridgedale School

Louie Sanderson School (North St. Elmo)

South St. Elmo School

Sunnyside School

Third District School

Black

Howard High School

* Lincoln Junior High School

Calvin Donaldson School; W. 37th and Frederick

Chattanooga Avenue School

East Fifth Street School

Fort Cheatham School

Main Street School

Orchard Knob School

Park City School; 2608 Cannon St.

Second District School

Joseph E. Smith School

Spears Avenue School

* moved into new addition at Orchard Knob School as Orchard Knob Junior High School in November 1936

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1934-1935

White

Birchwood High School

Central High School

Daisy High School; consolidated into Soddy-Daisy High 1937

Hixson High School

Ooltewah High School

Sale Creek High School

Soddy High School; consolidated into Soddy-Daisy High 1937

Tyner Junior High and High School

Red Bank Junior High School

Amnicola School

Apison School

Bakewell School

Birchwood School

Bonny Oaks Industrial School

Chickamauga School; closed by expansion of Lovell Field 1935

Daisy School

East Brainerd School

Eastdale School

East Ridge School

Falling Water School

Fairmount School; consolidated with Signal Mountain

Fairview School

Flat Top School

Friendship School

Gann’s School; consolidated into Gann’s-Middle Valley

Gold Point School; consolidated into Gann’s-Middle Valley

Harrison School

Hixson School

Jersey School

Kings Point School

Anna B. Lacey School

Lookout Mountain School

Lupton City School

Maddux School; merged into Harrison 1938

Meadowview School

Miller’s Grove School; consolidated into Gann’s-Middle Valley

Mountain Creek School

Mowbray School

New Providence School

Oak Hill School; merged into Harrison 1938

Ooltewah School

John A. Patten School; formerly Patten’s Chapel

Pineville School; formerly Pine Hill

Red Bank Elementary School

Riverside School

Sale Creek School

Salem School

Louie Sanderson School; North St. Elmo

Sawyer School

Shady Grove School; merged into Soddy 1937

Signal Mountain School

Silverdale School; consolidated with Tyner as Bess T. Shepherd 1937

Snow Hill School

South St. Elmo School

Soddy School

Sunnyside School

Tyner Elementary School; consolidated with Silverdale as Bess T. Shepherd 1937)

Westview School

White Oak School

Black

Bakewell School (Colored)

Bonny Oaks Industrial School

Chickamauga Colored School (Colored)

Eastdale School (Colored)

Georgetown School (Colored)

Harrison School (Colored); merged into Washington 1938

Roland B. Hays School

Hixson School (Colored)

Lookout Mountain School (Colored)

North Chattanooga School (Colored)

Pine Breeze School

Soddy School (Colored)

Summit School

Washington Elementary and Junior High School

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1940-1941

Hixson High School

Ooltewah High School

Soddy-Daisy High School

Tyner Junior High and High School

Red Bank Junior High School

Birchwood Elementary and High School

Sale Creek Elementary and High School

Amnicola School

Apison School

Nathan Bachman School

Bakewell School

Bonny Oaks Industrial School

Daisy School

Central High School

East Brainerd School

Eastdale School

East Ridge School

Edwards Point School

Fairmount School; merged into Signal Mountain

Fairview School; merged into Hixson

Falling Water School

Flat Top School; merged into Mowbray

Friendship School

Gann’s-Middle Valley School

Harrison Consolidated School

Hixson Elementary School

Jersey School; consolidated into Kings Point-Jersey

Kings Point School; consolidated into Kings Point-Jersey

Anna B. Lacey School

Lookout Mountain School

Lupton City School

Meadowview School

Mountain Creek School

Mowbray School

New Providence School

Ooltewah Elementary School

John A. Patten School

Pineville School

Red Bank Elementary School

Sawyer School

Signal Mountain School

Snow Hill School

Soddy School

Westview School

White Oak School

Black

Bakewell School (Colored)

Bonny Oaks Industrial School

Chickamauga School

East Dale School (Colored)

Pine Breeze School

Roland Hays School

Hixson School (Colored)

Lookout Mountain School (Colored)

Soddy School (Colored)

Summit School

Washington Elementary and High School

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1940-1941

White

Chattanooga High School (City)

Chattanooga Vocational School

Brainerd Junior High School

Dickinson Junior High School

East Lake Junior High School

East Side Junior High School

Hardy Junior High School

Lookout Junior High School

North Chattanooga Junior High School

Alton Park School

Avondale School

G. Russell Brown School (North Chattanooga)

Clara Carpenter School

Cedar Hill School

Central Elementary School

Clifton Hills School

East Chattanooga School

East Lake Elementary School

H. Clay Evans School

Glenwood School

Hemlock School

Highland Park School

Jefferson Street School

Mission Ridge School

Normal Park School

Oak Grove School

Orange Grove School

Park Place School

Ridgedale School

Louie Sanderson School (North St. Elmo)

South St. Elmo School

Sunnyside School

Third District School

Black

Howard High School

Calvin Donaldson Elementary and Junior High School

Chattanooga Avenue School

East Fifth Street Elementary and Junior High School

Fort Cheatham School

James A. Henry School (W. 12th and Grove)

Orchard Knob Elementary and Junior High School

Park City School

Second District Elementary and Junior High School

Joseph E. Smith School

Spears Avenue School

West Main Street School (Main and College)

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1950-1951

White

Central High School

Ooltewah High School

Soddy-Daisy High School

Tyner High School

Amnicola School

Apison School

Bachman School

Bakewell School

Birchwood Elementary and High School

Bonny Oaks Industrial School

Daisy School

East Brainerd School

Eastdale School; annexed to CCS 1957

East Ridge School

Edwards Point School

Falling Water School

Gann’s-Middle Valley School

Harrison School

Hixson Elementary and High School

Jersey-Kings Point School

Anna B. Lacey School

Elbert Long School; annexed by CCS

Lookout Mountain School

Lupton City School

Meadowview School

Mountain Creek School

Mowbray School

New Providence School

Ooltewah Elementary School

John A. Patten School

Pineville School

Red Bank Elementary School

Red Bank Junior High School

Sale Creek Elementary and High School

Sawyer School

Bess T. Shepherd School

Signal Mountain School

Snow Hill School

Soddy School

West View School

White Oak School

Black

Bakewell School (Colored)

Chickamauga School

* Eastdale School (Colored)

East Ridge School (Colored)

Roland Hays School

Lookout Mountain School (Colored)

Soddy School (Colored)

Summit School

Washington Elementary and High School

*Eastdale was annexed into the City of Chattanooga in 1955, and its school system closed this school in 1957, with students having to choose between distant Chickamauga School or overcrowded Orchard Knob.

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1950-1951

White

Chattanooga High School (City) (10-12)

Kirkman Vocational School (9-12)

Brainerd Junior High School

Dickinson Junior High School

East Lake Junior High School

East Side Junior High School

Hardy Junior High School

Lookout Junior High School

North Chattanooga Junior High School

Alton Park Elementary School

Avondale Elementary School

G. Russell Brown Elementary School

Clara Carpenter Elementary School

Cedar Hill Elementary School; 13th Avenue

Central Elementary School; 410 Colville St.

Clifton Hills Elementary School

East Chattanooga Elementary School

East Lake Elementary School

H. Clay Evans Elementary School

Glenwood Elementary School

Hemlock Elementary School

Highland Park Elementary School

Jefferson Street Elementary School; became William J. Davenport

Missionary Ridge Elementary School

Normal Park Elementary School

Oak Grove Elementary School

Ridgedale Elementary School

Louie Sanderson Elementary School

South St. Elmo Elementary School

Sunnyside Elementary School

Third District Elementary School; 2100 Long St.

Black

Howard High School; 1001 Carter St.

Second District Junior High School

Calvin Donaldson Elementary and Junior High School

Chattanooga Avenue School

East Fifth Street Elementary and Junior High School

Fort Cheatham School

James A. Henry School

Orchard Knob Elementary and Junior High School

Park City School

Joseph E. Smith School

Spears Avenue School

West Main Street School (Main and College)

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1960-1961

White

Central High School (7-12)

East Ridge High School (7-12)

Hixson High School (7-12)

Ooltewah High School (7-12)

Red Bank High School

Soddy-Daisy High School (9-12)

Tyner High School (10-12)

Red Bank Junior High School

Signal Mountain Junior High School (6-9)

Tyner Junior High School

Birchwood School (1-12)

Sale Creek School (1-12)

John H. Allen Elementary School (1-8; Green Pond & Dallas Hollow)

Alpine Crest Elementary School

Amnicola Elementary School

Apison Elementary School (1-8)

Bachman Elementary School

Bakewell Elementary School

Bonny Oaks Industrial School

Daisy Elementary School (1-8)

East Brainerd Elementary School

East Ridge Elementary School

Edwards Point Elementary School (1-8)

Falling Water Elementary School

Gann’s-Middle Valley School

Harrison Elementary School

Hixson Elementary School

Jersey-Kings Point Elementary School; became Hillcrest

Anna B. Lacey Elementary School

Lookout Mountain Elementary School

McBrien Elementary School

Meadowview Elementary School

Mountain Creek Elementary School

Mowbray Elementary School

Ooltewah Elementary School

John A. Patten School

Pineville Elementary School

Red Bank Elementary School

Rivermont Elementary School

Sawyer Elementary School

Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School

Signal Mountain Elementary School (1-5)

Snow Hill Elementary School

Soddy Elementary School (1-8)

West View Elementary School

White Oak Elementary School

Black

Washington High School (7-12)

Bakewell Elementary School (Colored) (1-8)

Chickamauga Elementary School

Roland Hays Elementary School

Lookout Mountain Elementary School (Colored) (1-8)

Soddy Elementary School (Colored)

Summit Elementary School

Washington Elementary School (1-6)

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1960-1961

White

Brainerd High School (7-10)

Chattanooga High School (10-12)

Kirkman Vocational School (9-12)

Brainerd Junior High School

Hardy Junior High School

Lookout Junior High School

North Chattanooga Junior High School

Avondale Elementary School

Henry Barger Elementary School; 4808 Brainerd Rd.

Charles A. Bell Elementary School; 3501 Central Ave.

G. Russell Brown Elementary School

Clara Carpenter Elementary School; 701 E. 5th St.

Old Cedar Hill Elementary School; 4608 13th Avenue

New Cedar Hill Elementary School; 4701 Divine Ave.

Clifton Hills School Elementary

William J. Davenport Elementary School; 1800 Jefferson St.

East Chattanooga Elementary School

East Lake Elementary and Junior High School (1-9)

East Side Elementary and Junior High School (1-9)

Eastdale Elementary Elementary School

Mary Ann Garber Elementary School; 2225 Roanoke Ave.

Glenwood Elementary School; Parkwood Ave. and Kilmer St.

Hemlock Elementary School; 1501 E. 12th

Highland Park Elementary School

Elbert Long Elementary and Junior High School

Missionary Ridge Elementary School

Normal Park Elementary School

Oak Grove Elementary School

Park Place School (4 & 6)

Ridgedale Elementary School; 1000 Dodds Ave.

St. Elmo Elementary School

Louie Sanderson Elementary School

Sunnyside Elementary School

Woodmore Elementary School

Black

Howard School (1-12)

Second District Junior High School (7-9)

Chattanooga Avenue Elementary School

Calvin Donaldson Elementary School

East Fifth Street Elementary and Junior High School (1-9)

Fort Cheatham Elementary School

James A. Henry Elementary School

Orchard Knob Elementary and Junior High School (1-9; separated next year)

Joseph E. Smith Elementary School

Spears Avenue Elementary School; 1312 Spears Ave.
Frank H. Trotter Elementary School; 4700 Kirkland Ave.

West Main Street Elementary School; 700 W. Main St.

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1966-1967

High Schools

Central High School (7-12)

East Ridge High School

Hixson High School

Ooltewah High School (7-12)

Red Bank High School

Soddy-Daisy High School

Tyner High School

Washington High School (7-12)

Junior High Schools

East Ridge Junior High School

Hixson Junior High School

Lookout Valley Junior High School

Red Bank Junior High School

Signal Mountain Junior High School

Soddy-Daisy Junior High School

Tyner Junior High School

Full 12-year Schools

Birchwood School

Sale Creek School

Elementary Schools

John H. Allen Elementary School (1-8)

Alpine Crest Elementary School

Amnicola Elementary School

Apison Elementary School

Bachman Elementary School

Bakewell Elementary School

Chickamauga Elementary School

Daisy Elementary School

DuPont Elementary School

East Brainerd School

East Ridge Elementary School

Edwards Point School (1-8)

Falling Water School

Gann’s-Middle Valley

Harrison School

Roland B. Hays School

Hillcrest Elementary School (formerly Jersey-Kings Point)

Hixson Elementary School

Anna B. Lacey Elementary School

Lakeside Elementary School

Elbert Long Elementary and Junior High School

Lookout Mountain Elementary School

McBrien Elementary School

Meadowview Elementary School (1-8)

Mountain Creek Elementary School

Mowbray Elementary School (1-8)

Ooltewah Elementary School

John A. Patten Elementary School

Pineville Elementary School

Red Bank Elementary School

Rivermont Elementary School

Sawyer Elementary School

Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School

Signal Mountain Elementary School; 809 Kentucky Ave.

Snow Hill Elementary School

Soddy Elementary School

Summit School

Wilkes T. Thrasher School; 1301 James Blvd., Signal Mtn.

Washington Elementary School

West View Elementary School

White Oak Elementary School

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1966-1967

Senior High Schools

Brainerd High School

Chattanooga High School

Howard School Senior Division

Kirkman Technical High School (9-12)

Riverside School Senior Division

Junior High Schools

Alton Park Junior High School

Brainerd Junior High School

*Dalewood Junior High School

East Lake Junior High School

East Side Junior High School

Hardy Junior High School

Howard School Junior Division

Lookout Junior High School

North Chattanooga Junior High School

Orchard Knob Junior High School

Riverside School Junior Division

*Dalewood, opened in the fall of 1963 for students from Eastdale and Woodmore, gets its name from a portmanteau of their names.  Its original working name was North Brainerd Junior High School.

Elementary Schools

Avondale Elementary School

Henry Barger Elementary School; 4808 Brainerd Rd.

Charles A. Bell Elementary School; 3501 Central Ave.

G. Russell Brown Elementary School

Cedar Hill Elementary School

Clifton Hills School Elementary

William J. Davenport Elementary School; 1800 Jefferson St.

Calvin Donaldson Elementary School

East Chattanooga Elementary School

East Fifth Street School (1-9)

East Lake Elementary Elementary School

Eastdale Elementary Elementary School

Mary Ann Garber Elementary School

Glenwood Elementary School

Hemlock Elementary School

James A. Henry Elementary School

Highland Park Elementary School

Howard School Elementary Division

Elbert Long Elementary and Junior High School

Missionary Ridge Elementary School

Normal Park Elementary School

Oak Grove Elementary School

Orchard Knob Elementary School

Piney Woods Elementary School (701 Hooker Rd.)

Ridgedale Elementary School

St. Elmo Elementary School

Louie Sanderson Elementary School

Joseph E. Smith Elementary School

Sunnyside Elementary School

Frank H. Trotter Elementary School

Woodmore Elementary School

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1975-1976

High Schools

Central High School (9-12)

East Ridge High School (10-12)

Hixson High School (10-12)

Ooltewah High School (9-12)

Red Bank High School

Soddy-Daisy High School

Junior High/Middle Schools

Brown Middle School

East Ridge Junior High School

Hixson Junior High School

Ooltewah Middle School

Red Bank Junior High School

Signal Mountain Junior High School

Soddy-Daisy Junior High School

Full 12-year Schools

Birchwood School (1-12)

Sale Creek School (1-12)

Elementary Schools (1-6)

Allen Elementary School

Alpine Crest Elementary School

Apison Elementary School

Bachman Elementary School

Daisy Elementary School

Dallas Elementary School

East Brainerd Elementary School

East Ridge Elementary School

Falling Water Elementary School

Gann’s-Middle Valley Elementary

Harrison Elementary School

Hillcrest Elementary School

Hixson Elementary School

Anna B. Lacey Elementary School

Lookout Mountain Elementary School

McBrien Elementary School

Meadowview Elementary School (1-8)

Mountain Creek Elementary School

Mowbray Elementary School (1-8)

Ooltewah Elementary School

Red Bank Elementary School

Sawyer Elementary School

Signal Mountain Elementary School (809 Kentucky Ave.)

Snow Hill Elementary School

Soddy Elementary School

Spring Creek School

Wilkes T. Thrasher Elementary School

Westview Elementary School

White Oak Elementary School

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1975-1976

Senior High Schools

Brainerd High School

Chattanooga High School

Hixson High School

Howard High School

Kirkman Technical High School

Lookout Valley High School

Riverside School High School

Tyner High School

Junior High Schools

Alton Park Junior High School

Brainerd Junior High School

Dalewood Junior High School

East Fifth Street Junior High School

East Lake Junior High School

East Side Junior High School

Hardy Junior High School

Hixson School Junior High School

Elbert Long School

Lookout Junior High School

North Chattanooga Junior High School

Orchard Knob Junior High School

Tyner Junior High School

Elementary Schools

Avondale Elementary School

Henry Barger Elementary School

Charles A. Bell Elementary School

G. Russell Brown Elementary School

Clara Carpenter Elementary School

Chickamauga Elementary School

Clifton Hills Elementary School

Calvin Donaldson Elementary School

DuPont Elementary School

East Brainerd Elementary School

East Chattanooga School

East Lake Elementary School

Eastdale Elementary School

Mary Ann Garber Elementary School

James A. Henry Elementary School

Highland Park Elementary School

Hillcrest Elementary School

Hixson Elementary School

Howard Elementary School

Lakeside Elementary School

Missionary Ridge School

Normal Park Elementary School

Oak Grove Elementary School

Orchard Knob Elementary School

Piney Woods Elementary School

Ridgedale Elementary School

Rivermont Elementary School

St. Elmo Elementary School

Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School

Joseph E. Smith Elementary School

Sunnyside Elementary School

Valley View Elementary School

Washington Elementary School

Woodmore Elementary School

Hamilton County Schools, 1985-1986

High Schools

East Ridge High School

Harrison Bay Vocational Technical Center

Ooltewah High School

Red Bank High School

Sequoyah Vocational Technical Center

Soddy-Daisy High School

Junior High/Middle Schools

Brown Middle School

East Ridge Junior High School

Ooltewah Middle School

Red Bank Junior High School

Signal Mountain Junior High School

Soddy-Daisy Junior High School

Full 12-year Schools

Sale Creek School

Elementary Schools

Allen Elementary School

Alpine Crest Elementary School

Apison Elementary School

Bachman Elementary School

Birchwood Elementary School (1-8)

Central High School

Daisy Elementary School

Dallas Elementary School

Dawn School

East Ridge Elementary School

Falling Water Elementary School

Gann’s-Middle Valley Elementary  School

Harrison Elementary School

Lookout Mountain Elementary School

McBrien Elementary School

Mountain Oaks Elementary School (old Ooltewah High building)

Mowbray Elementary School

Ooltewah Elementary School

Red Bank Elementary School

Signal Mountain Elementary School

Snow Hill Elementary School

Soddy Elementary School

Spring Creek Elementary School

Thrasher Elementary School

Westview Elementary School

White Oak Elementary School

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1985-1986

Senior High Schools

Brainerd High School

Chattanooga High School

Hixson High School

Howard High School

Kirkman Technical High School; closed 1991

Lookout Valley High School

Tyner High School

Junior High Schools

Alton Park Junior High School

Brainerd Junior High School

Dalewood Junior High School

East Lake Junior High School

East Side Junior High School

Hardy Junior High School

Hixson Junior High School

North Chattanooga Junior High School

Orchard Knob Junior High School

Tyner Junior High School

Elementary Schools

Avondale Elementary School

Henry Barger Elementary School

Charles A. Bell Elementary School

Big Ridge Elementary School

G. Russell Brown Elementary School

Chickamauga Elementary School; closed 1987

Clifton Hills Elementary School

Calvin Donaldson Elementary School

DuPont Elementary School

East Brainerd Elementary School

East Chattanooga Elementary School

East Lake Elementary School

Eastdale Elementary School

Mary Ann Garber Elementary School

James A. Henry Elementary School

Highland Park Elementary School

Hillcrest Elementary School

Hixson Elementary School

Howard Elementary School

Lakeside Elementary School

Mountain Creek Elementary School

Normal Park Elementary School

Oak Grove Elementary School

Orchard Knob Elementary School

John A. Patten Elementary School

Piney Woods Elementary School

Ridgedale Elementary School

Rivermont Elementary School

St. Elmo Elementary School

Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School

Sunnyside Elementary School

Valley View Elementary School

Washington Elementary School

Woodmore Elementary School

Hamilton County Schools (HCS), 1988-1989

High Schools

Central High School

East Ridge High School (10-12)

Harrison Bay Vocational Technical Center

Ooltewah High School

Red Bank High School (10-12)

Sequoyah Vocational Technical Center

Soddy-Daisy High School

Junior High/Middle Schools

Brown Middle School

East Ridge Junior High School

Ooltewah Middle School

Red Bank Junior High School

Signal Mountain Junior High School

Soddy-Daisy Junior High School

Full 12-year Schools

Sale Creek Elementary and High School

Elementary Schools

Allen Elementary School

Alpine Crest Elementary School

Apison Elementary School

Bachman Elementary School

Birchwood Elementary School (1-8)

Daisy Elementary School

East Ridge Elementary School

Falling Water Elementary School

Gann’s-Middle Valley Elementary School

Harrison Elementary School

Lookout Mountain Elementary School

McBrien Elementary School

McConnell Elementary School

Mountain Oaks Elementary School; closed in 2000

Mowbray Elementary School

Ooltewah Elementary School (K-3)

Ooltewah Intermediate School (4-5)

Red Bank Elementary School

Signal Mountain Elementary School

Snow Hill Elementary School

Soddy Elementary School

Spring Creek Elementary School

Thrasher Elementary School

Westview Elementary School

White Oak Elementary School

Special Schools

Dawn School

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1988-1989

After this year, sixteen schools were closed, the ones whose names are underlined.

Senior High Schools

Brainerd High School

Chattanooga High School

Hixson High School

Howard High School

Kirkman Technical High School

Lookout Valley High School

Tyner High School

12-year Schools

Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences (CSAS; old City High)

Junior High Schools

Alton Park Junior High School

Brainerd Junior High School

Dalewood Junior High School

East Lake Junior High School

East Side Junior High School

Hardy Junior High School

Hixson Junior High School

Elbert Long Junior High School

North Chattanooga (Northside) Junior High School

Orchard Knob Junior High School

Tyner Junior High School

Elementary Schools

Avondale Elementary School

Henry Barger Elementary School

Charles A. Bell Elementary School

Big Ridge Elementary School

G. Russell Brown Elementary School

Clifton Hills Elementary School

Calvin Donaldson Elementary School

DuPont Elementary School

East Brainerd Elementary School

East Chattanooga Elementary School

East Lake Elementary School

Eastdale Elementary School

Mary Ann Garber Elementary School

James A. Henry School

Highland Park Elementary School

Hillcrest Elementary School

Hixson Elementary School

Howard Elementary School

Lakeside Elementary School

Mountain Creek Elementary School

Normal Park Elementary School

Oak Grove Elementary School

Orchard Knob Elementary School

John A. Patten Elementary School

Piney Woods Elementary School

Ridgedale Elementary School

Rivermont Elementary School

St. Elmo Elementary School

Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School

Sunnyside Elementary School

Valley View Elementary School

Washington Elementary School

Woodmore Elementary School

Chattanooga City Schools (CCS), 1989-1990

These were the city schools after the 1989 mass school closings.

High Schools

Brainerd High School

Chattanooga High School

Hixson High School

Howard School of Academics and Technology

Kirkman Technical High School

Lookout Valley High School

Tyner High School

13-year Schools

Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences

Middle Schools

Alton Park Middle School (became John P. Franklin Middle; closed 2005)

Brainerd Middle School (became 21st Century Academy)

Dalewood Middle School

East Lake Middle School

East Side Middle School

Hixson Middle School

North Chattanooga Middle School

Orchard Knob Middle School

Tyner Middle School

Elementary Schools

Henry Barger Elementary School

Big Ridge Elementary School

Clifton Hills Elementary School

Calvin Donaldson Elementary School

DuPont Elementary School

East Brainerd Elementary School

East Lake Elementary School

East Side Elementary School

Mary Ann Garber Elementary School

Hardy Elementary School

Hillcrest Elementary School

Hixson Elementary School

Howard Elementary School

Lakeside Elementary School

Normal Park Elementary School

North Chattanooga Elementary School

Orchard Knob Elementary School

Rivermont Elementary School

Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School

Valley View Elementary School (became Lookout Valley)

Woodmore Elementary School

Hamilton County Schools, 2000-2001

These are the Hamilton County Schools at the turn of the century, soon after they and the Chattanooga City Schools consolidated.

High Schools

Brainerd High School

Central High School

Chattanooga High School Center for the Creative Arts

East Ridge High School

Harrison Bay Vocational Technical Center

Hixson High School

Howard High School

Kirkman Technical High School

Lookout Valley High School

Ooltewah High School

Red Bank High School

Sale Creek High School

Sequoyah Vocational Technical Center

Soddy-Daisy High School

Tyner High School

13-year schools

Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences

Middle-High Schools

Washington Alternative School

Middle Schools

21st Century Academy; formerly Brainerd Middle

John P. Middle School; formerly Alton Park; closed 2005

Brown Middle School

Chattanooga Middle School for Paideia and Performing Arts

Dalewood Middle School

East Lake Academy of Fine Arts

East Ridge Middle School

East Side Middle School

Hixson Middle School

Ooltewah Middle School

Orchard Knob Middle School

Red Bank Middle School

Signal Mountain Middle School

Soddy-Daisy Middle School

Tyner Middle School

Elementary Schools

Allen Elementary School

Alpine Crest Elementary School

Apison Elementary School

Bachman Elementary School

Barger Elementary School; Barger Academy of Fine Arts in 2002

Big Ridge Elementary School

Birchwood Elementary School

Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts

Clifton Hills Elementary School

Calvin Donaldson Elementary School

Daisy Elementary School

DuPont Elementary School

East Brainerd Elementary School

East Lake Elementary School

East Ridge Elementary School

East Side Elementary School

Falling Water Elementary School (consolidated into Middle Valley)

Gann’s-Middle Valley Elementary School (consolidated into Middle Valley)

Mary Ann Garber Elementary School

Hardy Elementary School

Harrison Elementary School

Hillcrest Elementary School

Hixson Elementary School

Howard Elementary School

Lakeside Elementary School

Lookout Mountain Elementary School

Lookout Valley Elementary School; formerly Valley View

McBrien Elementary School

McConnell Elementary School

Mowbray Elementary School

Normal Park Elementary School

North Hamilton Elementary School

Ooltewah Elementary School

Orchard Knob Elementary School

Red Bank Elementary School

Rivermont Elementary School

Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School

Signal Mountain Elementary School

Snow Hill Elementary School

Soddy Elementary School

Spring Creek Elementary School

Thrasher Elementary School

Westview Elementary School

White Oak Elementary School

Woodmore Elementary School

* Became Normal Park Museum Magnet School in 2002

Special Schools

Dawn School

Hamilton County Schools, present

These are the Hamilton County Schools at the present time.

High Schools

Brainerd High School
Central High School
Chattanooga Charter School of Excellence, High
        (in former Alton Park Junior High/John P. Franklin Middle)
East Ridge High School
Hixson High School
Hamilton County Collegiate High School
Harrison Bay Center
The Howard School
Middle College High School
Ooltewah High School
Red Bank High School
Sequoyah High School
Soddy-Daisy High School
STEM School
Tyner Academy

Middle-High Schools

Chatt Academy Community School
        (901 Woodmore Lane; 6-7 this year, eventually will be 6-12)
Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy
        (1802 Bailey Avenue)
Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts
Chattanooga Preparatory Academy (boys only)
        (1849 Union Avenue)
Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, Upper School
East Hamilton Middle-High School
        (former Gibson Dairy Farm, Westview)
Ivy Environmental Academy
        (8520 Dayton Pike, Soddy-Daisy)
Lookout Valley Middle-High School
Sale Creek Middle-High School
Signal Mountain Middle-High School
Washington Alternative Learning Center
        (in former Hillcrest Elementary)

Middle Schools

Brown Middle School
Chattanooga Charter School of Excellence, Middle
        (in former Oak Grove Elementary)
Dalewood Middle School
East Lake Academy of Fine Arts
East Ridge Middle School
Hixson Middle School
Howard Connect Academy
Hunter Middle School
Loftis Middle School
Ooltewah Middle School
Orchard Knob Middle School
Red Bank Middle School
Soddy-Daisy Middle School
Tyner Middle Academy

Elementary Schools

Allen Elementary School
Alpine Crest Elementary School
Apison Elementary School
Barger Academy of Fine Arts
Battle Academy for Teaching and Learning
Bess T. Shepherd Elementary School
Big Ridge Elementary School
Calvin Donaldson Environmental Science Academy
Chattanooga Charter School of Excellence
        (in former US Army Reserve Center, East 23rd Street)
Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, Lower School
Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts (K-8)
        (in former Lakeside Academy)
Clifton Hills Elementary School
Daisy Elementary School
DuPont Elementary School
East Brainerd Elementary School
East Lake Elementary School
East Ridge Elementary School
East Side Elementary School
Hardy Elementary School
Harrison Elementary School
Hillcrest Elementary School (closed 2021)
Hixson Elementary School
Ivy Academy’s Skillern Elementary
        (8520 Dayton Pike, Soddy-Daisy)
Lakeside Academy of Math, Science, and Technology (closed 2021)
Lookout Mountain Elementary School
Lookout Valley Elementary School
McConnell Elementary School
Middle Valley Elementary School
Montessori Elementary at Highland Park
        (on former site of Highland Park Grammar School)
Nolan Elementary School
Normal Park Museum Magnet School (K-6)
North Hamilton County Elementary School
Ooltewah Elementary School
Orchard Knob Elementary School
Red Bank Elementary School
Rivermont Elementary School
Snow Hill Elementary School
Soddy Elementary School
Spring Creek Elementary School
Thrasher Elementary School
Tommie F. Brown International Academy
Wallace A. Smith Elementary School
Westview Elementary School
Wolftever Creek Elementary School
Woodmore Elementary School

Special Schools

Dawn School
Hamilton County Virtual School

East Chattanooga Elementary, shortly after it closing in 1989.