The Donoho School
school in Anniston, Alabama, USA
The Donoho School is a private school in Anniston, Alabama, United States, that was honored by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program in 2005. The Donoho School serves students in grades PK through 12.
History
The Anniston Academy was founded as a secondary institution in 1963 and renamed in 1976. The present Lower Division was founded as The Episcopal Day School in 1961 as an independent elementary school. Housed originally in the facilities of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church (Anniston, Alabama), the school moved into Grace Episcopal Church in 1967.
In the early 1960s, local Anniston business leaders began to discuss creating a private school that could provide a classical education to the city's residents. Thomas S. Potts was appointed chairman of the school's board of governors. In 1963, he said that the school "will not be for the rich, but rather will contain a cross section of students."
Unlike other private schools in the South, the Anniston Academy was not founded as a "segregation academy" designed to attract white students whose families feared court-mandated integration. During the same month that the Anniston Academy opened its doors in 1963, many of its founders, including H. Miller Sproull, Charles Doster, and Lucian Lentz, fought alongside black community leaders to desegregate Anniston's public library, staring down opposition from the Ku Klux Klan.
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