Savannah High School is a public high school located in Savannah, Georgia, United States.CampusSavannah High is now located at 400 Pennsylvania Avenue.HistorySavannah High School was originally located on Washington Avenue between East and West Atlantic Avenues. The original building, built by the WPA and designed by William Bordley Clarke, Sr., was once the largest public school building in the United States. The foundation of the original building had been built as a luxury hotel, but the owners went bankrupt in the Great Depression and the City of Savannah took over the unfinished building. The three-story brick and mortar structure included two interior courtyards, one of which held a rifle range for the ROTC as well as several circular interior fire escape slides, which have since been sealed off. The distance around the interior hallway was in excess of one quarter mile. Today, that building houses the Savannah Arts Academy, the only public high school for the arts in Savannah.AcademicsThe Savannah High School campus hosts two separate programs of study: Liberal Studies at Savannah High SchoolLaw and Criminal Justice at Savannah High SchoolAthleticsSavannah High School has competed in Region 3-AAA since 2016. The school is a member of the Georgia High School Association.
