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1943

Oak Ridge High School was established in 1943 by the United States Army to educate children of the workers building and operating Manhattan Project facilities in Oak Ridge.

1951

The high school moved to its current central location in Oak Ridge in 1951 after a new state-of-the-art campus was built under the auspices of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, which then operated Oak Ridge and its public schools.

1955

The integration of Oak Ridge High School was the result of a January 1955 directive by the Atomic Energy Commission.

1995

Grade 9 was added in 1995 when Oak Ridge Schools reorganized grade levels.

2005

Oak Ridge High School gained notoriety in November 2005 when principal Becky Ervin, then in her first year at the school, censored the student newspaper, the Oak Leaf.

With the move to the new campus, the school's street address was 127 Providence Road for many years until the school's reconstruction in 2005 moved the administrative offices to the Oak Ridge Turnpike side of the school.

2006

On April 10, 2006, the incident led to Oak Ridge High School receiving a Jefferson Muzzle Award, issued annually by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression to focus attention on free speech and First Amendment violations in the United States.

Also in April 2006, Ervin was released from her position as principal and notified that her contract would not be continued for the following school year.

2007

She was temporarily replaced by vice-principal Chuck Carringer, who was appointed to the position on a permanent basis early in 2007.

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