Pisgah High School

Pisgah High School

89 Metcalf St.

Pisgah, Alabama 35765

Phone:  256-451-3241

Coach's Office: 256-451-3091

Lunch Room:  256-451-3235

Mission Statement

Pisgah High School Beliefs

• Education is essential to the preservation of our culture
• Educational efforts must be in concert with the parents of those we are charged to educate.
• All aspects of a child, his intellect, his body, and social skills should be given equal attention
• Each student can become competent, productive, self-reliant members of our democratic society.

Pisgah High School Vision

It is the vision of Pisgah High School to develop the mind through challenging academic pursuits, the body through vigorous physical exercise, and the sensitivities through art, music, and literature.

Pisgah High School Mission

Developing the intellectual, social, and physical capabilities of all students.

History of Pisgah High School

Pisgah High School

In 1917 Pisgah Junior High School was established.  It became a high school in 1925. Albert Raines, later to become a U. S. Congressman, was the first principal after the state took over the school. In 1938, the main high school building consisting of nine classrooms, a home economics department, a library, two rest rooms, a teacher's lounge, and a principal's office was built with WPA labor. The elementary building (two-story building) was constructed in 1953.  The lunch room was also located in this building. Additional buildings added were - a new gym, which is in current use, in 1961; a junior high wing, which is now the elementary building, in 1963; a new agriculture department which is in current use in 1964; a new lunchroom in 1969 also in current use; and a new library in 1985.

Through the years several schools have consolidated with Pisgah - Jones Cove, Webster, Chalybete Springs in 1939, New Herman in 1941, Browntown and Central in 1946, Sublets in 1951, Pleasant View in 1964, and Deans Chapel in 1969.

In the fall of 1998, sixty years after the construction of the main high school building, students moved into the present day building.  The main structure of the old high school building was sold and moved to Gorham's Bluff.

                                        
Old High School Built 1938                      Two story building Built 1953

First School Building

Pisgah High School Principals

*Wayne Pendley, principal; Alex Jeffery, custodian;
and Timothy Brown, a summer worker were killed in
an accidental fire in the two-story building at
Pisgah School in the summer of 1982.

Compiled by: Darlene Wheeler and Phyllis Whitton

Pisgah High School Alma Mater

(to the tune to "Hail to Old I. U.")

In the midst of Alabama

Proudly do we stand.

Pisgah High School

Mighty Eagles

Greatest in the land.

Your influence will

Surround us

Wherever we may be.

Hail to thee our Alma Mater

We give praise to thee.