Flint Northern High School was a public secondary school located in Flint, Michigan. The original building "#1" was built in 1928 and demolished in the 1980s, after being the home of the Flint Academy. It was one of the high schools in the Flint Community Schools district along with Flint Northwestern High School (now Flint Junior High School) and Flint Southwestern Academy. It was closed in 2013 and reopened as Northern Academy. The Flint school board finally closed the school completely in 2014. [citation needed]
Flint Northern High School | |
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Address | |
G-3284 Mackin Road , 48504 United States | |
Coordinates | 43°02′08″N 83°44′15″W / 43.0356°N 83.7374°W |
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School type | public secondary Jr. High |
Motto | "Respect, Responsibility, and Results" |
Opened | 1928 |
Closed | 2013 (Reopened as Northern Academy and closed again soon after) |
School district | Flint Community Schools |
Superintendent | Linda Thompson[1] |
CEEB code | 231500[3] |
Principal | Janice Davis[2] |
Grades | 7–12 |
Gender | coed |
Color(s) | scarlet gray[4] |
Slogan | We Are The Vikings |
Athletics conference | Saginaw Valley HS Ass'n[4] |
Team name | Vikings[4] |
Accreditation | North Central Association of Colleges and Schools[5] |
Website | http://nhs.flintschools.org |
Its terms were the Vikings. The school competed in the Saginaw Valley High School Association and the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA).
The following teams have won their respective MHSAA state championships.
Wayman arrived in Flint as a sophomore at Flint Northern and after graduating from Northern, he received a basketball scholarship to the University of Michigan ... In 1976 Wayman was drafted by the L.A. Lakers in the fourth round ...
Fourth team all-state choice by the Detroit Free Press as a senior at Flint Northern High ...
At Northern he played halfback.
The players were Maurice Taylor, who was driving, Willie Mitchell, Robert Traylor, Louis Bullock, all starters, and Ron Oliver. The recruit was Mateen Cleaves, a 6-foot-2 guard who led Flint Northern to the Class-A Michigan state championship last season.
Flint Northern grad, former Michigan Ms. Basketball and Georgia graduate Deanna Nolan, in her eighth season with the Detroit Shock, has become one of the top players in the WNBA.