Lee-Davis High School is located in Mechanicsville, Virginia, United States, a suburb of Richmond. It currently has about 1700 students enrolled for the 2015-2016 school year. LDHS offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular activities for its students. Stonewall Jackson Middle school is LD's feeder school. They participate in the International Baccalaureate program and host the NJROTC.School HistoryLee-Davis was founded in 1959 along with Patrick Henry High School in Ashland, Virginia, and received students from Battlefield Park High School and Washington-Henry High School. After the construction of Lee-Davis High School was completed for the 1960-61 school year, both Battlefield Park and Washington-Henry became Elementary Schools. Lee-Davis was originally an open-campus or prairie style mid-century modern school, and shared similarities in its design with Patrick Henry High School. In the late 1960s, what is now Stonewall Jackson Middle School was erected on the northern end of the campus as Lee-Davis Junior High. Stonewall became a fully functional middle school some years later when Hanover County implemented the middle school concept.School ArchitectureOver its 50+ year history, it has been renovated several times, and features a wide variety of architectural styles. Ranging from the original prairie-style with dramatic overhangs and large windows, to what it more resembles now; a postmodernist architecture with varying elements of structural exposure throughout the inside of the building, providing interest and insight into the original design of the building. The most ambitious project by far was a complete enclosure project that started in 1986 and was finished along with Patrick Henry's enclosure in 1991. At the time of these renovations, school had to continue in a building that was extremely overcrowded to begin with, and for many students - the construction was all they knew, and the renovations lasted their entire high school career. During this time Hanover County had also completed construction of the County's third high school, Atlee High School. The enclosure of the county's two high schools and the addition of a third high school was enough to supplement the amount of student in the county, and the current student count is around 1600 compared to almost 2000 in the late 1980s. Lee-Davis' main building is now fully enclosed, and has continued to undergo numerous renovations and additions since its redesign in 1991.
