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Leeds High School
Leeds High School is the sole public high school in the Leeds City Schools system. It is located at 1500 Green Wave Drive (formerly Coosa Avenue) off Parkway Drive (U.
S. Highway 78) in Leeds.
The school was established in 1911 by the Jefferson County School System.
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A two-story brick building was constructed for $10,000 at Parkway Drive (then called First Avenue South) and Montevallo Road. After the completion of additional classrooms for elementary grades in 1914, the school absorbed the pupils of the Leeds Academy, which closed that year.
The first athletic teams included a basketball club which debuted on Thanksgiving Day in 1914, and a football team, then called "The Leeders", which took the field in 1923 under head coach N. B. Breland. A girl's basketball team began playing the next year.
Ground was broken for a new school building in 1925. It opened the next year to great acclaim, but was damaged in a fire in 1928 and had to be almost entirely rebu