Louisville Male High School

Louisville Male High School
Male Bulldogs
Location
Louisville, KY United States
Coordinates	38°11′05″N 85°43′21″W / 38.18478°N 85.72243°WCoordinates: 38°11′05″N 85°43′21″W / 38.18478°N 85.72243°W
Information
Type	Public Secondary
Established	1856
School district	Jefferson County Public Schools
Principal	Jim Jury (acting)
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	1,780[1]
Color(s)	Purple and Gold
Mascot	Bulldogs
Nickname	Male Dawgs
Rival	DuPont Manual High School
Accreditation	Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Since 1913[2]
Website	Louisville Male High School

Louisville Male Traditional High School is a public secondary school serving students in grades 9 through 12 in the southside of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. It is part of the Jefferson County Public School District.

School history

Mascot and school letter

The school's mascot is a Bulldog and it is common to refer to the school as the Male Bulldogs.

The school letter is actually an "H", while the longstanding rival duPont Manual High School has the "M" as its letter. The reason behind this is as follows: Founded in 1856, Louisville Male High School became the first high school west of the Allegheny Mountains. Therefore, Male was known originally as "High School." After other high schools were established in the years following, and eventually the school was named "Louisville Male High School", the "H" was kept as the school's letter for tradition and to honor the origins of the school. Others have suggested that when rival duPont Manual High School was founded, the schools had a football game to determine who would use the "M" as their school's letter. Manual then won the game, which led to a rivalry that continues to the present day. This explanation is incorrect and has no historical evidence to substantiate it.

School locations

Third site Fourth site

Corner of Brook Street and Breckinridge Street (1915–1991)

This location is now owned by Salvation Army and is a historic landmark in Louisville.

4409 Preston Highway (1991–present)

In August 1991, Male moved to its current campus at 4409 Preston Highway, an educational facility that doubled the instructional, laboratory, library and campus space. Since it has moved to this location, the school has won two U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon awards. The site was previously Sallie P. Durrett High School, which became the Durrett Education Center in the early 1980s and was used by Jefferson County Public Schools Library Media Services until 1991. The adjoining Gheens Academy, which opened in 1983, was previously Prestonia Elementary School.

Present day

Programs

The school runs a unique curriculum that is different from the other public high schools in the city. All students participate in the College Preparatory Program so as to guarantee the transition to higher education is as smooth as possible.

Students have an opportunity to graduate with a Commonwealth Diploma,^[3] which demands more than the required units for graduating high school in JCPS. One of the stipulations is the successful completion (i.e., receiving a grade of "C" or its equivalent) in 4 AP courses in the areas of English, Science/Mathematics, Foreign Language, and Elective.

Uniforms

Louisville Male adheres to a dress code, stipulating that, students wear a collared shirt, neatly tucked in with a belt, few piercings (two for girls' ears, none for boys'), hair of even color and length (boys' sideburns and bangs may not be more than two inches—51 millimeters—long), and without visible tattoos or markings. Students may wear solid purple, gold, white, or black emblemless polo shirts with black, navy, or khaki pants. On Fridays (or the last day of the week) "Spirit Day" is in place and students may choose from a variety of school "Spirit" shirts with blue jeans.

These guidelines are designed to give students a clean and professional appearance, and to level the appearance of all; for, as a magnet school, students come from the entire city and from different social and economic backgrounds.

Lottery

Getting into the high school is virtually impossible unless previous enrolled in one of the three traditional program magnet middle schools, Johnson Traditional Middle (Southwest), Jefferson County Traditional Middle (Middle East) and Barret Traditional Middle (Northeast and East). The traditional program works on a lottery system where you are given an equal chance as everyone else to get your student into the school. Only students from the feeder schools are automatically accepted. However, if they give up their spot freshmen year they cannot retain it on special status.

Athletics

On Saturday, November 18, 1893, the annual Male-Manual football rivalry, the longest running, continuously played, high school football series in Kentucky, began. Their football team is a perennial state power, and in addition to its long-running rivalry with Manual, Male is also a close rival with St. Xavier High School, with the annual contest usually determining the fate of the district champion; however, due to the state's realignment of high school football into a six-class system starting in 2007–08, Male is the third winningest football program in the United States and the winningest program in Kentucky.^[4] Male also has a rivalry with Trinity High School in football. The school offers football (State Championships: 6)(State Runners-up:3),^[5] basketball (State Championships: 4)(State Runners-up: 5),^[6] baseball (State Championship: 1944), softball (State Runner-up: 2015), bowling, tennis, soccer, field hockey, wrestling, swimming, track and field (5-Peat State Championship Winners: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and lacrosse

Sports championships

BASEBALL[7]
Championship	Years Won
District Champion	1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 2002, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2014
Region Champion	1944, 1954, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1995, 2003, 2010
State Final Four	1944, 1954, 2003, 2010
State Runner-Up	1954, 2003
State Champion	1944
BOYS BASKETBALL[8]
Championship	Years Won
Region Champion	1932, 1933, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1966, 1970, 1971 1973, 1974, 1975, 1990, 1993, 2000, 2001, 2002
State Runner-Up	1932, 1966, 1973, 1974, 2001
State Champion	1945, 1970, 1971, 1975
FOOTBALL[5][9]
Championship	Years Won
Region Runner-up	1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009
Region Champion	1993, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2013
State Runner-Up	2001, 2002, 2010
State Champion	1952, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1993, 1998, 2000, 2015
BOYS GOLF [10]
Championship	Years Won
State Champion	1941, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948
BOYS SOCCER[11]
Championship	Years Won
State Champion	1983
BOYS TRACK & FIELD[12]
Championship	Years Won
State Champion	1921, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1929, 1932, 1936, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947 1948, 1949, 1952, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
LADY BULLDOG BASKETBALL[13]
Championship	Years Won
Region Champion	1987, 1994, 1996, 2015
State Final Four	1994, 2015
LADY BULLDOG SOCCER[14]
Championship	Years Won
State Champion	1993, 1994
LADY BULLDOG SOFTBALL
Championship	Years Won
Region Champion	2013, 2014, 2015
State Runner-Up	2015
LADY BULLDOG TRACK & FIELD[15]
Championship	Years Won
State Champion	1966, 1968, 1972

Clubs and organizations

Students participate in many clubs and organizations: Art Club, Band (Marching, Concert, Symphonic), Beta Club, Brook 'n' Breck Newspaper, Chorus (Boys, Girls), Drama Club, FBLA, FCA, FCA, Governor's Scholars, French Honor Society, JROTC (Drill Team, Color Guard, Rifle Team, Raider Team), Lacrosse, Latin Club, Latin Honor Society, Literary Magazine, Marine Biology, Math Team, Men of Quality, MTRP, Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society, Orchestra, Peer Mediation, Quick Recall (Varsity, JV), Recycling Squad, Red Cross, SAM (serving at male), Show Choir (Boys, Girls), Spanish Honor Society, Speech & Debate, Student Senate, Student Technology Leadership Program, Women of Quality, Writing Team, Yearbook, and YMCA Club.^[16]

Notable alumni

Name	Class	Notability
Chris Barclay		professional football player[17]
Ralph Beard	1945	professional basketball player[18]
Winston Bennett	1983	professional basketball player[19]
Porter Bibb		the first publisher of Rolling Stone
Rick Bolus	1968	Nations Top Prep Basketball Analyst
Emery Bopp	1942	artist
Louis Brandeis	1870	U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Michael Bush	2003	professional football player[20]
Valerie Coleman	1989	Classical Flutist and Composer. Founder of the 2005 nominated ensemble Imani Winds
Tony Driver	1996	professional football player for Notre Dame and the Buffalo Bills[21]
Trent Findley		professional football player
Abraham Flexner		reformed medical education in the United States
Charles Grawemeyer	1929.5	industrialist, entrepreneur and investor, created the Grawemeyer Award
Marcus Green	2001	professional football player[22]
Sean Green		Major League Baseball Pitcher[23]
Darrell Griffith	1976	professional basketball player[24]
John R. Harper		engineer, inventor, politician
William B. Harrison		former mayor of Louisville
D.J. Johnson		Professional football player[25]
Kenny Kuhn	1955	professional baseball player[26]
Neville Miller	1912	former mayor of Louisville
William Burke Miller		Pulitzer Prize winner
Warren Oates	1945	noted film actor
Larry O'Bannon		basketball player who plays for Hapoel Eilat B.C. in Israel
Joseph T. O'Neal		former mayor of Louisville
Chris Redman	1995	professional football player[27]
Lee Roberson	1923	notable Baptist pastor, and founder, president and chancellor of Tennessee Temple University and Temple Baptist Seminary
Brian K. Scott	1997	Buffalo Stille - Member of the Grammy Nominated Platinum recording artists Nappy Roots (2002 to present) and Founder/CEO of Birdgang Brand Clothing
Edliff Slaughter	1920	LMHS's first All-American football player
George Weissinger Smith	1883	former mayor of Louisville
Hunter S. Thompson	1955	gonzo journalist, writer, novelist, political commentator
Wilson Wyatt		former mayor of Louisville

See also

• Public schools in Louisville, Kentucky

References

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