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Fred J. Page High School (commonly referred to as Page High or PHS) is a senior high school in Franklin, Tennessee in the prestigious Williamson County School District nationally recognized for superior academic achievement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Williamson County )〕 The school opened in August 1975 along Arno Road in the unincorporated town of Rudderville bearing the name of former Williamson County Superintendent Frederick Jackson Page. The school is consistently ranked among America's top 500 high schools and the best school zone in Tennessee by ''Newsweek'' magazine and ''U.S. News & World Report''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Newsweek Top 500 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Newsweek Top 500 2015-16 )〕 Page High School has also produced a remarkable number of scholars, athletes and entertainers given its small size and relatively rural location. During the 2014-15 school year, ''The Daily Beast'' website ranked Page High School the top school in Williamson County, the second best school in Tennessee, and 59th best in America (based on college acceptance rates, AP course enrollment, college entrance exam scores and college preparedness among other criteria).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daily Beast article in Tennessean )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Daily Beast 2014 rankings )〕 In 2015, ''U.S. News & World Report'' named Page High School Tennessee's top-ranked public school zone in both mathematics and English proficiency for the fifth consecutive year, Tennessee's only school zone to surpass 90% proficiency in mathematics (93%), and the only school zone to surpass 90% proficiency in English (95%).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=U.S. News Education report 2015 )〕 The website Schooldigger.com named Page High the top secondary school in the state〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top 10 Tennessee High Schools )〕 while ''Newsweek'' named the school zone the second best academically in Tennessee with the 7th highest average SAT score in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='13 America's Best High Schools )〕 An independent study ranked the AP Calculus program the strongest in the state of Tennessee among zoned public schools.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Franklin Home Page article )〕 During the 2013-14 school year, Page High School in Williamson County and Farragut High School in Knox County were the only two high schools in Tennessee that ranked among the top 5% in academic performance and the top 5% in academic progress.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Performance and Progress )〕 At the conclusion of the 2013–14 school year, Page High was awarded Platinum High Achievement status for the fourth consecutive year through the National High Schools That Work initiative of the Southern Regional Education Board.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NSTW )〕 The school is among only a few schools in Tennessee consistently bestowed National Blue Ribbon status〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Blue Ribbon Schools )〕 and was one of three high school finalists for the 2011 SCORE prize〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SCORE Prize finalist )〕 after demonstrating tremendous academic gains. In 2013, Dr. Andrea Anthony was named the Tennessee High School Principal of the Year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Page High principal named best in state )〕 ==Frederick Jackson Page== Page High School was named after Frederick Jackson Page (1863–1944), the first Superintendent of Williamson County Schools.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Frederick Page )〕 He served in that position for 42 years (1899–1941) retiring at the age of 77. Superintendent Page gained a reputation nationally as a revolutionary educator, scholar and author. He was instrumental in the county's expansion from 8 grades to 12 grades in the early 1900s, lengthened the school year from five months to nine months, and introduced the ideas of summer school for remediation purposes and increased rigor in elementary school. Page revolutionized the teacher certification process and introduced the idea of uniform textbooks to replace teacher-made materials, additionally consolidating hundreds of tiny schoolhouses into larger, centralized institutions. Frederick Page was born in Triune, Tennessee on October 7, 1863 at a time when Civil War battles were prevalent in the area.〔 The Page homestead was located just five miles east of what would become the Page High School campus a century later.〔 Page's ancestors had arrived in Williamson County in the early 1800s, his grandparents marrying there on February 5, 1817. Page's grandmother Nancy Armstrong is buried in Franklin, TN.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nancy Armstrong )〕 Page received his master's degree at the age of 18 from Peabody College, now part of Vanderbilt University. He was named principal of Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Tennessee at the age of 19. Page later worked in West Tennessee as a teacher in Overton County and as president of Obion College in the town of Troy.〔 He eventually returned to Williamson County becoming the principal of College Grove Preparatory School in College Grove, Tennessee prior to his tenure as superintendent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fred J. Page history )〕 Page retired in 1941 and died on April 9, 1944, at the age of 80, buried in Mount Hope Cemetery.〔〔 Years after his death, the home in which he lived was torn down and the property became what is now Williamson County Animal Hospital at 1126 Murfreesboro Road. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fred J. Page High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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