Falcon@50 Fun Facts

  • JHS opened as the first desegregated school in Durham County.

  • The original construction cost was $1 million dollars.

  • The longest serving principal served from 1968-1991.

  • Charles Jordan was chair of the Durham County Board of Education and was affiliated with Duke University.

  • There was a courtyard where our current library is located.

  • Githens Middle School shared our building for much of the first 25 years.

  • Did Coach Popson teach you how to drive? He was here when the school first opened!

  • “Not the end, but the beginning” has been our school motto from day one.

  • Students conducted a sit-in protest in our lobby in 1976.