Archives Closed Schools G-J: Jeffersontown High School (original)

Other Name: J-Town High School

Last Address: College Drive and Galene Drive

Year Opened: 1925

1st Graduating Class   1929

Year Closed: 1950

Last Graduation   1950

The original Jeffersontown High School opened 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.