Hume-Fogg High School (Nashville, Tennessee)

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Hume-Fogg Academic High School is a public high school located in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

Hume-Fogg's original incarnation, Hume High School which opened in 1855, was the first public school in Nashville.

In 1875, Fogg High School became the second public school in Nashville. In 1912, the two merged into Hume-Fogg at the present site at 700 Broadway in Nashville, a Tudor Revival building. In 1942 Hume-Fogg was recast as a Technical and Vocational School. It continued in this capacity until the 1982 court supervised desegregation of Nashville's public school system. In that year, Hume-Fogg was again recast as an academic magnet school for Nashville's gifted and talented secondary students.

Hume-Fogg is respected academically: in 2004-2005, the College Board certified Hume-Fogg's Advanced Placement Microeconomics course as the strongest in the world. Nearly 100% of graduates each year go on to 4-year colleges, many earning prestigious academic scholarships in the process.

Hume-Fogg also has a high rate of students involved in sports. In 1964 it was the first public high school in Nashville to desegregate its sports teams.

Tennessee poet Randall Jarrell attended Hume-Fogg, where he wrote some of his first essays; there is now a historical marker on the site. Actress Dinah Shore also graduated from Hume-Fogg. Pinup queen and Playboy Playmate Bettie Page was salutatorian in the 1940s.

In the 2004-2005 school year, Hume-Fogg celebrated its sesquicentennial, or one-hundred-fiftieth year, anniversary.

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