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Central High School is the oldest high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was founded in 1906 as Tulsa High School, and located in downtown Tulsa until 1976. The school now has a campus in northwest Tulsa. Tulsa Central is part of the Tulsa Public Schools, Oklahoma's largest school district, and is a public school for students from grades 9 through 12. Since 1997 it has served as a fine and performing arts magnet school.〔Kris Dudley, ("Fame: Central High School Takes on Role as Magnet Site for the Arts" ), ''Tulsa World'', August 20, 1997.〕 ==History== The original Tulsa High School was erected in 1906 at Fourth and Boston in downtown Tulsa. In 1913 it became the third school in the state to win accreditation. A new building opened in 1917 at the corner of Sixth and Cincinnati, and was enlarged in 1922. The Manual Arts building at Ninth and Cincinnati was added in 1925.〔Joyce Saunders, ("Central High School" ) at (Tulsa Central High School Foundation ) (retrieved March 24, 2009).〕 Tulsa Central was at one time said to be the second largest high school in the country, and included an indoor pool, an indoor track, an extensive art collection, and a large pipe organ.〔Kirby Lee Davis, ("These Walls: Tulsa's Central High School" ), ''Oklahoma City Journal-Record'', April 11, 2008 (retrieved March 24, 2009).〕〔Danna Sue Walker, ("Piping up" ), ''Tulsa World'', February 14, 2003.〕 Central was Tulsa's only public high school for white students, and by 1938 it had grown to its peak enrollment of more than 5,000 students in grades 10-12.〔 Finally, Tulsa opened two new high schools: Webster High School in West Tulsa (in 1938), and Will Rogers High School east of downtown (in 1939).〔Barbara Hoberock, ("Grads Recall Central's Fast Times" ), ''Tulsa World'', May 27, 1990.〕 Booker T. Washington High School was established for African American students in 1913. Tulsa's schools were legally racially segregated by race until 1955, and remained segregated ''de facto'' at least into the 1970s, due to population patterns and school policies.〔("School Desegregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma" (abstract) ), U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1977.〕 The construction of Tulsa's Inner Dispersal Loop freeway impaired the school's access to the outdoor physical education facilities at Central Park and Tracy Park. The cost of downtown parking was also a problem. These factors led to the decision to move the school out of downtown. The new campus was opened in 1976, at 31st West Avenue and Edison Street,〔 in the portion of northwest Tulsa that is located in Osage County. The old Central High School building at Sixth and Cincinnati was acquired by Public Service Company of Oklahoma ("PSO"). After a complete renovation and extensive interior modifications, it now serves as PSO's headquarters. The renovated and adapted building has been named a Tulsa landmark by the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture.〔〔("About Us" ) at (Public Service Company of Oklahoma ("PSO") website ) (retrieved March 24, 2009). (Note that the current PSO Building—the former Central High School building at Sixth and Cincinnati—is not the same building as the older Public Service Company building at Sixth and Main, which is now listed on the Register of Historic Places for Tulsa County.)〕〔Danna Sue Walker, ("Tulsa Foundation for Architecture honors local people and places" ), ''Tulsa World'', November 9, 2007.〕 The former Manual Arts Building at Ninth and Cincinnati is now part of the downtown campus of Tulsa Community College.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Central High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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