Archives High Schools: Jeffersontown

Official Name: Jeffersontown High or J-town High School 

Year Opened: 1966

1st Graduating Class:1970

The original Jeffersontown High School opened in 1925 on the current site of Tully Elementary. Its mascot name was the Gentlemen. The high school was an extension of a previous elementary school in J-town at Dell Road and College Drive, which opened in 1912. The school was seriously damaged by a fire in 1940. The school subsequently conducted some classes in church Sunday School classrooms in the area. The school was closed in 1950 in favor of the newly opened Eastern High School in Middletown. J-town citizens, however, wanted a school of their own and fought for the restoration of Jeffersontown High School. The new school under that name opened in 1966.