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Hammond High Magnet School is a public

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located in an unincorporated part of the 7th

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, United States, east of Hammond. It is the second-largest high school in the Tangipahoa Parish Public School System. Until the end of academic year 2010–11, it was known as Hammond High School but became Hammond

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High School on being so reconstituted and designated by the Tangipahoa Parish School System. The mascot is the Tornado, and the school colors are

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. The principal is Micheal Kyles, Jr. The school enrolls students from Hammond and the surrounding area within Tangipahoa Parish because of the presence of the Magnet program and International Baccalaureate program.

History

Founded in 1866, and originally located between East Thomas Street (

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, then a two-way road) and Morris Street (the building became Eastside Elementary School and later the Eastside Apartments), the school moved to a location on the south side of West Morris Street (US 190, now eastbound only) shortly after

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; the West Morris Street site is now the world headquarters of Neill Corporation. In the Morris Street location, although the vernacular name was Hammond High School, officially, it was "Annie Eastman High School" in commemoration of a former teacher. In the late 1960s, the school relocated to a site north of University Avenue (

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), now the North Campus of

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. From there, Hammond High moved to its current location on LA 1064 (River Road). Linus A. Sims was appointed the principal of Hammond High School in 1923. Two years later, he started Hammond

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in a wing of the high school, then on the south side of West Morris Street. In 1928, the junior college, under Sims's leadership, became the future Southeastern Louisiana University (then College).

School uniforms

All students are required to wear

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Extra-curricular activities

Hammond High Magnet School (HHMS) offers extracurricular activities including Robotics, Key Club, Beta Club, and Math Club.

Athletics

Hammond High athletics competes in the LHSAA. The school sponsors football, volleyball, soccer, softball, swim, tennis, and track and field. Hammond's chief rival is the Ponchatoula Green Wave.

Championships

Football championships *(1) State Championship: 1970

Notable alumni

* Robert Alford, Class of 2008,

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, Class of 1965, football player *

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player * Raymond M. Clausen, Jr., Class of 1965,

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recipient * Brad Davis, Class of 1971, football player * John Desmond, architect, designed many of the public buildings in

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, professor at

and opponent of

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, Class of 1980, head coach of

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women's basketball team, Gold Medal olympian

Extra-curricular activities

Hammond High Magnet School (HHMS) offers extracurricular activities including Robotics, Key Club, Beta Club, and Math Club.

References

External links

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