• 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.