Founded in 1866, and originally located between East Thomas Street (
US 190, then a two-way road) and Morris Street (the building became Eastside Elementary School and later the Eastside Apartments), the school moved to a location on the south side of West Morris Street (US 190, now eastbound only) shortly after
World War I; the West Morris Street site is now the world headquarters of
Neill Corporation. In the Morris Street location, although the vernacular name was Hammond High School, officially, it was "Annie Eastman High School" in commemoration of a former teacher. In the late 1960s, the school relocated to a site north of University Avenue (
LA 3234), now the North Campus of
Southeastern Louisiana University. From there, Hammond High moved to its current location on
LA 1064 (River Road).
Linus A. Sims was appointed the principal of Hammond High School in 1923. Two years later, he started Hammond
Junior College in a wing of the high school, then on the south side of West Morris Street. In 1928, the junior college, under Sims's leadership, became the future Southeastern Louisiana University (then College). ==Athletics==