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T. L. Hanna High School

T. L. Hanna High School is located at 2600 Highway 81 North, outside the city limits of Anderson, South Carolina, United States. It is one of two high schools in Anderson School District Five and has a population of nearly 2,100 students. On July 1, 2015, Shawn Tobin was appointed as principal taking the place of long time principal Sheila Hilton, who retired. In 2019, Tobin retired to be replaced by T.L. Hanna graduate, Walter Mayfield. In 1999, the school was named "Palmetto's Finest" by the South Carolina Department of Education. In 2000, it was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

T.L. Hanna High School
T.L. Hanna shield
Address
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2600 Highway 81 North

Anderson, South Carolina
29621

United States
Coordinates34°34′02″N 82°37′24″W / 34.5671°N 82.62329°W / 34.5671; -82.62329
Information
TypePublic high school
Established1961 (63 years ago) (1961)
School districtAnderson School District Five
CEEB code410050
PrincipalWalter Mayfield
Staff103.00 (FTE)[1]
Grades9–12
Number of students1,994 (2023–2024)[1]
Student to teacher ratio19.36[1]
Color(s)Vegas gold and white
  
NicknameYellow Jackets
Websitehanna.anderson5.net

History

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Before T.L. Hanna High School, there was a Boys High School (located at what is now the Hanna-Westside Extension Campus) and a Girls High School. In 1951, Girl's High School changed its name to T.L. Hanna High School after its first principal Thomas Lucas Hanna.[2] In 1961, the school moved to a new site on Marchbanks Avenue, the current site of McCants Middle School, and became co-ed in 1962.

Prior to 1971, T.L. Hanna was Anderson School District 5's all-white high school (Westside was the African-American school); in 1971, the district finally integrated after the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. During the first year of integration, each grade's student government had two co-presidents, two co-vice presidents, etc., one white and one black.

In 1992, the school moved to its current location on Highway 81. In 1996, McDuffie High School closed as an independent vocational/non-college preparatory high school and became the Hanna-Westside Extension Campus, a change which increased and substantially diversified T.L. Hanna's student population (prior to 1996, many African-American students who were zoned for Hanna attended McDuffie, and the school's population made it state 3A instead of 4A). It has been an International Baccalaureate school since 2010.[3]

T.L. Hanna recently expanded by adding a freshman academy, math hall, new auxiliary gym, and new sports area.

Athletics

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State championships

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  • Basketball - Boys: 1960, 1966, 1967[4]
  • Basketball - Girls: 1981[5]
  • Cross Country - Boys: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984[6]
  • Cross Country - Girls: 1993, 1994[7]
  • Golf - Boys: 1974, 1983, 1993, 1994[8]
  • Soccer - Boys: 1980, 1996[9]
  • Soccer - Girls: 2012[10]
  • Tennis - Boys: 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 2021[11]
  • Tennis - Girls: 1987, 2013, [12]
  • Track - Boys: 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1993[13]
  • Track - Girls: 1993, 1994[14]

Notable alumni

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MTV's Made

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MTV came to T.L. Hanna High School in September 2007 to cast for Made, a reality show featuring makeovers of high school students.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "T. L. Hanna High". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 11, 2024.
  2. ^ "T. L. Hanna High School / Homepage". anderson5.net.
  3. ^ "T. L. Hanna High School". International Baccalaureate Organization. Retrieved October 26, 2017.
  4. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Basketball - Boys
  5. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Basketball - Girls
  6. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Cross Country - Boys
  7. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Cross Country - Girls
  8. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Golf - Boys
  9. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Soccer - Boys
  10. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Soccer - Girls
  11. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Tennis - Boys
  12. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Tennis - Girls
  13. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Track - Boys
  14. ^ SCHSL Palmetto's Finest - Track - Girls
  15. ^ "Anderson Co. Native lands role of James Brown in new film". Archived from the original on 2014-08-05. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
  16. ^ "Cowboys signing recently reinstated WR Martavis Bryant to practice squad". NFL.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  17. ^ "Former Hanna QB Preston Jones returns to alma mater as receivers coach". independentmail.com. July 19, 2012. Archived from the original on December 19, 2014. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  18. ^ Perez-Pena, Richard (September 15, 2008). "The Sports Whisperer, Probing Psychic Wounds". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2008.
  19. ^ "TL Hanna Athletics on Instagram: "Congrats to #TLHannaalum Zacch Pickens on being drafted to the Chicago Bears. Pickens was the Mr. Football award winner for South Carolina his senior year after leading Hanna to a state runner up finish in 5A @_pick_6_"". Instagram. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
  20. ^ "Zacch Pickens", Wikipedia, 2023-04-29, retrieved 2023-04-29
  21. ^ "James Michael Tyler". IMDb.
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