George Washington High School

George Washington High School is a public high school in Charleston, West Virginia, USA. GWHS opened in 1965 to accommodate students in South Hills and Loudendale ostensibly because Charleston High School was overcrowded. Prior to this time students in Charleston were divided between Charleston and Stonewall Jackson high schools. With the advent of desegregation, the wealthy South Hills neighborhood carved out a new, virtually all-white, school district from the Charleston district. Within 25 years of this school being built due to "overcrowding" the school board closed Charleston and Stonewall Jackson, now ostensibly due to low enrollments, creating Capital High School, and consolidated the racially mixed Dunbar High into South...