The
World Affairs Council and the school district cooperated in establishing the high school in 1981. The school's building was designed by
Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1924. It is a four-story, nine bay brick building on a raised basement in the
Art Deco-style. It features an entrance
portico with
Doric order columns supporting an entablature. It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as the
Thomas Jefferson School. The building and the school it previously housed were originally named for President
Thomas Jefferson. ==References==