Long-troubled Audenried High School, once known locally as the Prison on the Hill, today boasts a new, $55 million building, a crop of dedicated young teachers and sharply higher test scores.
So when the school district announced in January that Audenried would be shut down, parents were surprised. Audenreid, they were told, would become one of 18 “turnaround” schools in the city.
Progress had been made in the school, but not enough, officials said. While scores have risen sharply, they fall short of the city’s average, along with other performance measures. Major discipline problems at the school last year included the beating of a female student in a classroom.