Doss High School

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Doss High School is a secondary school located in Louisville, Kentucky.

Harry Doss High School is located in the southwestern part of Jefferson County, Kentucky. The school was originally proposed as Wisertown High School, in honor of the area of the county in which the school is located . The school was built to relieve overcrowding from Butler, Fairdale, Iroquois, Pleasure Ridge Park and Valley High Schools. The building opened in the Fall of 1967 at 7601 Saint Andrews Church Road. It began with the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades. The first graduating class was in 1971. The first class to complete grades 7 through 12 was in 1973.

During the 1990s as the Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools moved their Vocational Education Programs into the local high schools Doss became the recipient of three magnet programs: Cosmetology, Early Childhood Education, and Pre-Engineering. Currently Doss has six magnet programs: Banking and Financial Services, Education and Early Childhood Education, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Music Concentration, Pre-Engineering, and Sports Medicine.

The school athletic complex has three gymnasiums with the main gymnasium, the Leon Mudd Athletic Center, which seats a maximum of 1,800 people. Also, the Hayward Shartzer Stadium, the football stadium with a running track, which seats a maximum of 2,500 people. It is used by the school football team, the Doss Dragons, as well as the Louisville Bulls Mid Continental Football League team. Also within the athletic complex are baseball and softball fields and tennis courts.

[edit] Notable alumni

Notable alumni of Doss High School include:

Derek Anderson, basketball player
LaVell Boyd, football player
Larry Birkhead, photojournalist, best known as the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby, Danilynn