School Mission and Focus:
Independence High School is a community focused on learning and leadership.
Our focus for the 2005-06 school year centers on collaborative evaluation of student work. Collaborative teams of faculty meet on focus days to examine student work and use established protocols to suggest ways to improve teacher instruction with the overall goal to improve student achievement. In addition, emphasis is placed on making students aware of what they should know and be able to do (essential learning) for each course.
School History:
Independence opened in the fall of 2004 at a cost of $29 million. Independence High School (256,000 square feet) boasts 56 classrooms, 3 computer labs, 8 science labs, a TV production facility, band and choral rooms, art rooms, counseling center, state-of-the-art media center, full production theater with seating for 450, practice gymnasium, full-size gymnasium, outdoor football stadium, soccer, baseball, and softball fields, tennis courts, cafeteria, retail center, bank, and day care facility for Williamson County employees only. Independence High School opened with 45 teachers, 10 staff and approximately 680 students.
Independence High School is located on Columbia Highway on property previously owned by the descendants of Howell Patton. High school students in the area attended Page High School, Franklin High School, and Centennial High School prior to the opening of Independence. Prior to 1975 high school students in the area attended Franklin High. Beginning in 1975 most high school students in the area attended Page High. With the opening of Centennial in 1996, some students in the area attended Centennial, In the early part of the 20th century students rode the train into Franklin to attend Franklin High or BGA High School.
