School officials announced in June 2011 that juniors and seniors in the 2011–12 class would attend classes in a section of Northpark Mall in the renovated former Shopko location, while freshmen and sophomores held classes at the former Memorial High School building. Planning for a temporary school began four days after the May 22 tornado. In the weeks after the tornado, it was determined that the campus would need to be completely rebuilt. The high school's graduation ceremonies had taken place about three miles away on the Missouri Southern State University campus shortly before the tornado struck. The 2011 Joplin tornado that killed 161 people in Joplin extensively damaged the high school and Franklin Tech. Įxtensive renovations completed in 2003, and a television studio was completed in 2005. Joplin had two public high schools for the next 17 years until the Baby Boom enrollment bubble burst, leading to the consolidation of the two back into Joplin High School. Later, in 1968, Joplin High School split into two high schools, one named Parkwood at 2104 Indiana Avenue and the other was named Memorial High School at 310 W. Joplin was racially integrated without incident. A bond in early 1958 was approved to finish construction of the school, and classes commenced in the latest building that fall. When this proved to be too small of an amount of funding, voters rejected two additional bonds, leading to a student walk-out in 1957 in support of new facilities. In 1955, the new building was already too small to hold all the students, and a new $2.5 million bond was approved.
A successful 1915 referendum allocated $350,000 for a new school, which opened in January 1918. In 1911, the students built a biplane and on OctoHarold Robinson piloted the plane and it crashed, killing a bystander, James Kinney. The original site was expanded in 1892 to accommodate more students, and in 1897, students moved to a new site due to continued growth. In 1885, Joplin High School began operation. The school serves students in grades 9 through 12 and is the only traditional high school in the Joplin School District. Joplin High School is a public high school located in Joplin, Missouri, United States, founded in 1885.
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