Windsor Forest High School

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Windsor Forest High School
Location
Savannah, Georgia, Chatham, 31419 United States
Coordinates	31°58′36″N 81°09′09″W / 31.976696°N 81.152475°W / 31.976696; -81.152475Coordinates: 31°58′36″N 81°09′09″W / 31.976696°N 81.152475°W / 31.976696; -81.152475
Information
Type	Public
Opened	1967
School board	Savannah-Chatham County School Board
School district	Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools
Grades	9-12
Enrollment	1397
School Color(s)	Green and White
Mascot	Knights
Accreditation(s)	Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Website	Windsor Forest High School

Windsor Forest High School is a public high school in the Windsor Forest section of Savannah, Georgia. Managed by the Savannah-Chatham County School Board of Education, its attendance area includes the southside Savannah neighborhoods of Windsor Forest, White Bluff, Wilshire, and Georgetown.

History

Windsor Forest High School opened in the autumn of 1967. It was the city's first air-conditioned high school and included grades 7 through 12. For several years, Windsor's middle school students were fully drawn from the area south and west of Holland Drive, while its high school students came from a larger attendance zone that stretched north and east to the middle of Montgomery Crossroad. Two court-mandated busing plans in 1970 and 1971 markedly changed this attendance area, bringing in minority students from the subdivisions of Cloverdale and Liberty City in Savannah and reassigning some of Windsor's white students to Jenkins High School (1970-71 school year) and then to formerly all-black Beach High (from fall 1971). With the large-scale integration of the southside in the 1990s, however, Windsor Forest High became the neighborhood school it was before busing. In 1975, middle school grades 7 and 8 were dropped and their students were transferred to new middle schools elsewhere in Chatham County.

In 1997, the NBC-TV newsmagazine Dateline featured a segment on Sherry Hearn, a former Teacher of the Year at Windsor. Hearn, dismissed from the faculty the previous year, had refused a drug test after police officers found marijuana in her unlocked car in a campus parking lot.

Student activities

Clubs and organizations

• Annual Staff
• Band
• Chatelaines
• Flagteam
• Stepteam
• Mock Trial (not available for the 2011-2012 school year)
• JROTC
• FFA
• FBLA
• S.A.D.D (Students Against Destructive Decisions)
• National Honor Society
• National Spanish Honor Society
• National Art Honor Society
• Odyssey of The Minds (not available for the 2011-2012 school year)
• Knights For Christ

Athletics

• Football
• Boys and Girls Soccer
• Softball
• Baseball
• Volleyball
• Cheerleading
• Tennis
• Golf
• Boys & Girls Basketball
• Wrestling

Student media

• Morning News

External links

• Windsor Forest High School
• Savannah-Chatham County Public School System
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References

v t e Education in Savannah, Georgia Colleges and universities Armstrong Atlantic SCAD Savannah State South University Georgia Tech Savannah Georgia Southern Savannah Tech Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Savannah-Chatham County Public High Schools Beach Groves Islands Jenkins Johnson Savannah Arts Savannah Windsor Forest Private High Schools Benedictine Calvary Day Memorial Day Savannah Christian Savannah Country Day St Andrew's St. Vincent's

v t e GHSA Class AAAAA Region 3 Sub-Region A Beach Bulldogs Benedictine Cadets Camden County Wildcats Groves Rebels Savannah Arts Academy Panthers Sub-Region B Bradwell Institute Tigers Jenkins Warriors Johnson Atomsmashers Savannah Blue Jackets Windsor Forest Knights External Links Georgia Helmet Project Georgia Football Historians GHSA