Newport News High School was a high school located in Newport News, Virginia, United States. It was located at 3100 Huntington Avenue and operated by Newport News Public Schools. History In 1896, the first segregated white high school in Newport News was in the First National Bank building at Washington Ave. & 28th Street. Its first principal was Horace H. Epes. It later held classes at Central School from 1899 until Central School burned down in 1913. Classes then met at John W. Daniel School which was constructed in 1908. Both Central and Daniel Schools were in the 3100 block of Lafayette (later Huntington) Ave. Walter Reed School at 2410 Wickham Ave. served as a high school until Newport News High School was built in 1924. Daniel served as a public school until 1960, when it became the first home of Christopher Newport University. Newport News boasted one of the finest athletic fields in Virginia with the opening in 1935 of a concrete stadium, Saunders Stadium, with classrooms below at Newport News High School. A new gymnasium, named for the long-time athletic director and coach Julius "Julie" Conn, was opened in 1964. In 1971, Newport News High School was converted, along with George Washington Carver and Collis P. Huntington High Schools, to an intermediate school after the city's school district freedom-of-choice plan was struck down in the federal court and school districting went into effect. In 1980, Newport News Intermediate School was closed. The school building is now used by the U.S. Navy as an enlisted barracks for ships undergoing maintenance at Newport News Shipbuilding and is named Huntington Hall. Notable alumni and faculty Willie Armstead Thomas Granville Pullen Jr. former principal (1926) President University of Baltimore. Herbert H. Bateman Susan Sandler, author/screenwriter Crossing Delancey Eric Burden, the first black student to attend the all-white Newport News High School in 1963. Lefty Driesell, basketball coach. John Montague, former Major League Baseball pitcher Thomas N. Downing, politician. David Ellenson, rabbi. Joe S. Frank, politician Ava Gardner, actor Jimmye Laycock, 1970, offensive coach, Newport News High School and former head football coach, College of William and Mary. Charles Nuttycombe Parke S. Rouse, Jr., 1933 graduate, newspaper columnist and author of several regional history books. John B. Todd Coney A. Turbeville, Jr. (1955) Successful business and real estate entrepreneur Nathaniel Jarrett Webb (1891–1943) 1919–1921, football coach, math and science teacher (later member of