In this 1960s photo, the then-new Red Bank Junior High School on Morrison Springs Road looks a bit unfinished, surrounded by tall grass and unpaved driveway.
According to news reports, Hamilton County officials didn’t budget any money for paving or landscaping for the million-dollar school and wanted the city of Red Bank to step in to provide the finishing touches.
In time, the entryway got paved. The Mountain Creek garden club became involved in the landscaping, according to news reports, and 1,080 students arrived for the 1960-61 school year.
Many of the students relocated from a nearby school on Dayton Boulevard, which continued to operate as a high school until 1982. That year, senior high school students moved to the Morrison Springs Road campus.