The north side of duPont Manual's main building Address 120 West Lee St., 40208: Information School type Established 1892 School district Grades – Enrollment 1,896 (2014–15) Campus size 17 acres (6.9 ha) Campus type Color(s) Crimson and white Team name Crimsons/Rams Rival Newspaper The Crimson Record Website duPont Manual High School is a located in the neighborhood of, United States. It serves students in grades –. It is a part of the. DuPont Manual is recognized by the as a. Manual opened in 1892 as an all-male school.

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It was the second public high school in Louisville. Manual merged with its rival,, into a consolidated school from 1915 to 1919. Manual permanently merged with the Louisville Girls High School in 1950 and moved into their -style three-story building, built in 1934. In 2004, after conducting a poll, Louisville's newspaper listed Manual as one of Louisville residents' ten favorite buildings. As a school, Manual experienced a decline in discipline and test scores in the 1970s. In 1984, Manual became a, allowing students from throughout the district to apply to five specialized programs of study, or magnets.

Manual and Male High School have the oldest rivalry in the state, dating back to 1893. Manual's football team has won five state titles and claims two national championships. In the 1980s and 1990s Manual became a prominent academic school and has been included several times in lists of America's top high schools in and magazines. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] duPont Manual Training High School [ ] In 1892, Louisville factory owner donated $150,000 to the board of Louisville Public Schools to establish a training school to teach young men ('manual') skills that would fit them for their duties in life. The building was built on the corner of Brook and Oak Streets by the firm of Clark and Loomis, which also designed the and. After Manual moved out of the building it was used as a Middle School until 1974 when it was converted to apartments.

Manual's first principal, Henry Kleinschmid, was a favorite of du Pont but was unpopular with the school board, which conspired to replace him in 1895. Despite a summer of controversy and protest from the du Pont family, Manual's first two graduating classes and the four major local newspapers, the board replaced him with Harry Brownell on July 2. The original school building in 2009, after conversion to apartments Manual was initially a three-year school with some general academic classes and an emphasis on mechanical and industrial training. Although graduates recall the school being viewed as blue-collar and academically inferior to in its early days, numerous early graduates went on to become medical doctors, and students published a literary magazine called The Crimson from 1899 to 1955.

In order to accommodate newly added and classes, Manual was expanded to a four-year school in 1901. In 1911, Manual became the first school in Kentucky to serve lunches to students. In 1913, Louisville Public Schools announced a plan to merge Manual and its rival Male High School into Louisville Boys High so that the two schools could share a new $300,000 facility.

The plan took effect in 1915. Industrial training classes continued at the old Manual building. Parents objected to their children having to travel between the two buildings and the consolidation did not save the school board any money, so they voted to end the experiment in 1919.

The new building became Male's home for the next 70 years and Manual returned to its old building at Brook and Oak. In 1923 an expansion added new laboratories, a cafeteria, and the largest gym ever built in Louisville at the time.

The addition eventually burned and had to be destroyed in 1991. Manual's enrollment numbers, which had hovered around 400 since the 1890s, soared from 429 in 1919 to 1,039 in 1925. The Manual Crimsons football team, which had also been consolidated with Male's from 1915 to 1918, had great success in the 1920s, beating Male two years in a row for the first time in its history. Manual shared athletic facilities with Male for many years, but in the early 1920s alumni raised funds to construct Manual Stadium. The stadium opened in 1924 with 14,021 permanent seats. It was one of the largest high school stadiums in America at the time. The original structure was condemned and closed in 1952 after years of heavy use and minimal upkeep, and was reopened after being rebuilt in 1954.

Its modern capacity is 11,463. Historic marker for Louisville Girls High School Louisville Girls High School [ ] The Louisville Girls High School opened as Female High School in 1856 at what became the intersection of Armory Place and Muhammad Ali Boulevard.

It was the female counterpart to Male High School, also opened in 1856, and they were the first two public high schools in Louisville. Female High School moved to a location on First Street north of Chestnut in 1864 and remained there until 1899 when it moved to a location at Fifth and Hill Streets. It changed its name to Louisville Girls High School in 1911.

In 1934, the school moved into Reuben Post Halleck Hall, which had just been completed. The building was initially home to the Girls High School on the second and third floors, and Louisville Junior High School on the first. Over 12,000 women graduated from the school in its 94 years of operation. Merger [ ] By the 1940s, budget concerns and national trends made it clear that Louisville Girls High School and duPont Manual would merge into one coeducational school. They finally did so in September 1950 and remained in the old Louisville Girls High School building. This fusion of institutions resulted in the birth of the modern duPont Manual High School – dropping 'Training' from its previous name.

The same school building remains in use today, although two major additions have since been made. The middle school located on the building's first floor became Manly Junior High and moved to Manual's old building at Brook and Oak. The merged school began developing traditions such as in 1951, and Red and White Day in 1953.

Red and White Day eventually became a full week of related activities preceding the annual Male-Manual football game. Two traditions of the sexually segregated past, and the all-male Mitre Club, persisted into the 1950s as unofficial organizations but gradually faded away. Students began publishing a newspaper, The Crimson Record, in 1955.

Following the Supreme Court decision, Manual became racially integrated without controversy and graduated its first two black students in 1958. Starting in the 1960s, Manual began to face problems associated with schools in the United States as economically advantaged families moved towards Louisville's suburbs. Manual was exempt from in the 1970s because its racial makeup already met federal guidelines.

On November 11, 1976, what school board members referred to as a race-related riot occurred on campus, injuring 16 and leading to six arrests and 60 suspensions. Students and school administrators agreed that there was an atmosphere of racial tension brewing at Manual in the 1970s that led to the riot. In his 2005 book on the history of Manual, Mike McDaniel wrote that November 11, 1976 was 'quite probably the worst day in the history of Manual.' The late 1960s and 1970s were a time of major change at Manual.

A new wing featuring a gym with a of 2,566 opened in 1971. The school had as many as 3,360 students in the 1971–72 school year, necessitating 17 portable classrooms in the front and rear courtyards. Manual still had grades seven through twelve at this time, and overcrowding gradually began to improve after Manual dropped the seventh and eight grades when Noe Middle School opened in 1974.

Throughout the decade the administration gradually dropped the last vestiges of its manual training emphasis as the number of classes dwindled from 16 in 1971 to three in 1979. The, actually a magnet school within Manual, opened in 1978 and, along with the changing curriculum, presaged Manual's transition to an academically intensive magnet school in the 1980s. Magnet school [ ] Manual became a magnet school in 1984, creating specialty programs and allowing students from around the district to apply to attend. The change initially met with a mixed reaction, especially as most freshmen and sophomores were to be transferred to other schools. One critic in the black community called the plan 'one-way busing'.

A few days after the proposal was announced, about 300 students walked out of class at Manual and marched to, where most of them were being transferred, in protest. The protest succeeded in persuading the school board to modify the proposal to exclude sophomores from being transferred. The magnet programs succeeded in attracting applicants and by the mid-1990s only about a third of students who applied were accepted. In the midst of the transition to magnet school, Manual underwent a $1.9 million building improvement plan which added computer and science labs. Also in 1991, the recognized Manual as a Blue Ribbon School, the highest honor the department can bestow on a school. Many interior shots of the 1999 film were filmed at Manual.

Dr., the subject of the film, taught science and at Manual after he was fired by company in 1993. Building and campus [ ] Manual classrooms and offices are located in three buildings spread over two city blocks. The main building was originally called Reuben Post Halleck Hall and was home to the Louisville Girls High School before it merged with Manual. The Gothic-style building was completed in 1934 at a cost of $1.1 million. The 9-acre (36,000 m 2) tract it was built on had previously been the site of the old Masonic Widows and Orphans Home.

In 1967 an urban renewal program demolished a residential block east of the main building to create a running track and various athletic fields. The project doubled Manual's campus to its modern size of 17 acres (69,000 m 2). This was a part of a larger city-funded effort which created north of Manual and increased the size of the campus, which was originally touted as a plan to create a continuous chain of schools over many blocks. Manual even became a home for two of the university's women's athletic teams. In the 1980s, the U of L women's basketball team used Manual's gym as a part-time home, playing a total of 40 games in eight seasons there. The U of L volleyball team used the Manual gym as its primary home from 1977 through 1990, after which the team moved into the newly built Cardinal Arena on its own campus. In 1992, Manual began a $3.5 million renovation of the main building which included a new roof and a glass-enclosed cafeteria for juniors and seniors.

The Youth Performing Arts School has its own building a half-block from Manual's main building. It was completed in 1978 at a cost of $1.5 million as the final stage of the same plan that expanded Manual's campus and built Noe.

Noe had been built without an auditorium in anticipation of a theater-oriented school being built on site. The YPAS building includes production facilities, a costume shop and an 886-seat -style theater. The YPAS building did not contain extensive classroom space, however, and for many years teachers conducted YPAS classes in hallways and on loading docks if other space wasn't available.

Since 1993, YPAS has used an adjacent facility, built in 1899 and formerly home to Cochran Elementary, as an annex. Academics [ ] Manual focused on industrial training early in its history, but by the late 1970s it had a standard curriculum. In 1980, scores ranked Manual 23rd out of the 24 high schools in the county. Under principal Joe Liedtke, academics improved, especially after Manual became a magnet school in 1984 and could attract students from throughout the county. All students enroll in one of five magnet programs.

The High School University (HSU) magnet offers a traditional curriculum with electives. The Math/Science/Technology (MST) magnet specifically prepares students for college programs in engineering, science and math. Minimal requirements for MST students include courses in,, (including mandatory ),, and. The Journalism & Communication (J&C) magnet focuses on journalism, publishing, and media production. To earn class credit, J&C students can participate in production of the school's national award-winning ( The Crimson), ( The Crimson Record), award-winning literary magazine ( One Blue Wall), multimedia website ( RedEye) or a weekly morning television show called Manual AM, which is broadcast to all classrooms.

The J&C program was formerly known as CMA (Communications and Media Arts), but the name was changed so that the Manual program would stand out from others in the district with similar names. Admission to the HSU, MST and J&C magnets are decided by a committee of Manual teachers based on academic performance as measured by prior school grades and the, although extracurricular involvement is also considered. J&C applicants also participate in an on-demand writing assessment. The acceptance rate to each magnet varies with the number of applicants in any given year; in the mid-1990s about a third of applicants to these three magnets were selected each year.

Admission the other two magnets, Visual Arts and the Youth Performing Arts School, are decided based primarily on auditions. The Visual Arts magnet is located in a wing of art classrooms and features an art show each year for graduating seniors. The Visual Arts magnet provides students with the opportunity to work with a variety of media, including clay/sculpture, fibers, printmaking, painting, drawing and graphic design. The Math/Science/Technology program and the Youth Performing Arts School have achieved national recognition on multiple occasions. In 1994, Manual began offering (AP) courses. In 2001 it offered 45 AP courses, more than any other school in the state. Qualifying students may take college courses free of charge at the, which is located directly south of Manual.

In 2000, Manual implemented block scheduling, which allowed students to take eight classes per year, which are scheduled four per day on alternating days. Since 2000, Manual has held Kentucky's state record of 52, ranking third in the United States for that year. Manual's academic team won state titles at Governor's Cup, Kentucky's top high school academic competition, in 1993, 1994, 2005, and 2013. Matt Morris, a Manual graduate who was on the 1993 and 1994 teams, was the 1994 Teen Champion on. Three other Manual students have competed on Jeopardy.

Manual's academic teams have also won both National and championships, and achieved 7th place at the 's High School National Championships. Manual has a history of one of the top policy debate programs in the state.

In the 1990s Manual students won the Jefferson County championships most years and qualified teams for the tournament and the TOC. Manual has been mentioned several times in lists of America's top high schools in and magazines. In 2002, Manual was separated from the rest of the schools in its district and made to hold its own regional. In 2015, duPont Manual had the distinction of being the high school that sent the most students to the INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Youth Performing Arts School [ ]. Main YPAS building The (YPAS) is one of only two programs in Kentucky allowing high school students to major in.

Between 1995 and 2005, 90% of YPAS students received college scholarships totaling an average of over one million dollars per year. YPAS has its own building a half-block from Manual's main building, which includes classrooms, production facilities, a costume shop and an 886-seat -style theater. Since 1993, YPAS has used an adjacent facility, built in 1899 and formerly home to Cochran Elementary, as an annex. YPAS is one of Manual's and YPAS students take their academic classes at Manual and must complete the same academic requirements as any public school student in Kentucky.

Unlike the other magnets, YPAS is semi-autonomous; it has its own assistant principals, counselor, administrative staff, and parents' organization. Many Manual students take classes at YPAS, even if it is not their. Students at YPAS major in, instrumental music (, or ),,,. YPAS instructors are school teachers recruited from around the district for their backgrounds in the arts.

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See for information on how to incorporate it into this article's main text. B B King King Of The Blues Download Mp3. (October 2016) Other sports [ ], an early player, organized Manual's first baseball team in 1900.

An early baseball star was, who would go on to pitch in the, but left Manual two months before graduating. Manual claims seven 'mythical' state baseball championships and has won six official ones, most recently in 1962.

A total of ten Manual players have played in Major League Baseball, most notably. The varsity have won several NCA National Championship titles. In 1997, 1998, 2004, and 2005, they won the Large Varsity Division, and in 2003 and 2006 they won the Medium Varsity Division title. Varsity boys' was second at states in 2005 and third in 2004. In 2006, the Manual girls' team won the school's first team title after placing second in 2004 and 2005. The 2006 win was the first championship for a Jefferson County, Kentucky Class AAA Public School since 1980. In 2007, the Manual boys' cross country team also won a Class AAA state championship.

The team maintained state titles from 2003 to 2008. From 2004 through 2008, Manual won the Combined Girls' and Boys' State Championship, and the girls maintained their own state championship from 2005 through 2008. The boys' team achieved their best finish at the State Tennis Tournament in 2008 by winning the team title.

Previously, their best result had come in 2006 when they tied rival for second place. The boys' team also won the state doubles title in 2006, which was the first state title in Ram tennis history on the boys' side. The team had five consecutive runner up positions from the 2001—2002 year until the 2005—2006 year. In 2008, the Manual boys' tennis team went on to win the first ever regional tournament in Manual history. The state team won the state title in 2008, making Manual the second public school to ever win the title.

The boys' team won the state title in 2010. The school also offers, (called the Dazzlers),,,, and, among other sports teams.

The varsity field hockey team won the state title in 2011 for the first time in the history of the program. DuPont Manual girls' lacrosse has won many state titles and tournament trophies since 2001, when the sport was developed.

Notable alumni [ ] •, astronomer and optician •, 2007 •, actor, most often on the •, boxing trainer and manager •, football player •, Olympic gold medalist •, sociologist • (1987), theater performer, host of on TLC from 2001 to 2005. •, Jefferson County Judge-Executive and sheriff • (1995), performer • (1945), architectural lighting designer •, former •, runner-up •, U.S., 1962–65 •, United States senator, Senate majority leader •, 'Dean of American Balladeers' •, college and professional football player • (1937), baseball player • (1996), lead singer of the •, former Mayor of Louisville •, former member of the House of Representatives •, award-winning video game composer and entrepreneur See also [ ] • References [ ].

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The application process for duPont Manual will begin November 1, 2016. This is when all the forms will be available for download at dupontmanual.com. The must be filled out no later than January 6, 2017 to be considered for middle and high school placement for the 2017-2018 school year. The completed application packet needs to be submitted to Manual no later than January 13, 2017.

Manual will NOT be accepting incomplete application packets. Please make sure that you have all required forms completed and turned in on time for acceptance consideration. For a downloadable checklist of all application requirments. Our 8th grade open house will be November 3, 2016 from 6:30 - 8:00pm.

Other Magnet specific materials are due to Manual by posted due dates, see Detailed Admissions Information. Selection of Students Students are selected to attend duPont Manual in a competitive process that evaluates achievement test scores, academic achievement, personal essays, teacher recommendations, as well as portfolios and performing arts auditions.

Jefferson County residents are not charged tuition. Residency in Jefferson County is required for admission to duPont Manual High School. Applicants apply to their preferred magnet and application materials vary. YPAS applicants will be contacted for an audition. Applications and other materials required for admission to duPont Manual can be found at the admission forms page.